PHD Student, Anthropology
Jessica Hlay is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in Biological Anthropology and plans to graduate in the spring of 2024. She is currently conducting fieldwork in Utila, Honduras, studying on children’s health and development. To learn more about Hlay’s resarch and publications, visit her webpage.
In Spring 2023, Hlay received funding to support her project focused on how children learn and develop the emotion of disgust towards cues of disease. The main research question asks how disgust can help protect children from getting sick, and how disgust interacts with one’s physiological immune system to optimize energy usage. Learn more in our featured article.