Graduate Students

Graduate Students, Post Docs, College Fellows

THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Brian Addison

Email: baddison@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Cortical and trabecular bone as a biological tissue and engineering material.

Bridget Alex

Email: balex@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Dietary and environmental reconstructions, stable isotopes, Paleolithic Europe.

Cary Allen-Blevins

Email: callenblevins@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Dietary effects on milk composition, milk sex bias, milk microbiota, behavioral effects and early formation of the gut microbiome.

Alicia Breakey

Email: breakey@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Labor and childbirth, doulas, pregnancy, lactation, stress, social support, mother-infant bonding, reproductive ecology, endocrinology, evolutionary medicine.

Elizabeth Brown

Email: eabrown@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Human genetic evolution, specifically genetic evidence for recent adaptation in response to metabolic and dietary change.

Katherine Carter

Email: carter@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: dental evolution and development, methods to quantify morphological variation, modularity and evolutionary plasticity.

Eric Castillo

Email: ercastil@fas.harvard.edu | Website | Research interests: Biomechanics, functional morphology, experimental biology, mammalian locomotion, human and nonhuman primate evolution.

Andrew Cunningham

Email: acunning@fas.harvard.edu | Behavioral & Nutritional Ecology LabResearch Interests: primate and human foraging and ecology, understanding how cooked foods might have played a role in driving human biology during hominin evolution.

Heather Dingwall

Email: hdingwall@fas.harvard.edu | Research Interests: biomechanics, functional morphology, evolution of human and nonhuman primate locomotion.

Carolyn Eng

Email: cmeng@fas.harvard.edu | Website | Research interests: Functional morphology and biomechanics muscle physiology.

Luke Glowaki

Email: glowacki@fas.harvard.edu | Website | Research interests: Sociological models of cognitive evolution, coalitionary aggression, foragers, the collective action problem.

Daniel Green

Email: drgreen@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Dental microstructure, isotopic chemistry, reconstruction of tooth growth and life history, human evolution in the
Plio-Pleistocene.

Laura Klein

Email: lauraklein@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Nutritional status and maternal resource allocation, immune function, long-term health impacts of the fetal environment, modern human dietary patterns, evolutionary medicine.

Katherine McAuliffe

Email: mcauliff@fas.harvard.edu | website | Research interests: Evolution and development of cooperative behavior in animals and children, inequity aversion, risky decision-making in nonhuman primates; social learning and cultural evolution.

Collin McCabe

Email: mccabe@fas.harvard.edu | Comparative Primatology Website | Research interests: Cultural and epidemiological transmission dynamics; parasitism in humans and primates; social learning, innovation, and the evolution of culture in humans, primates, and animals.

Alexandra Rosati

Email: rosati@fas.harvard.edu | Website | Research interests: Cognitive evolution, value-based decision-making, spatial memory, apes

Erik J. Scully

Email: scully@fas.harvard.edu | Research Interests: Non-human primate behavioral ecology, cooperation, hormonal correlates of coalitionary aggression, evolutionary game theory, intraspecific variation.

Heather Shattuck (Faegre)-Heidorn

Email: faegre@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Human behavioral ecology and endocrinology, life history theory, evolution and mechanisms of cooperative breeding, immune function and life history trade-offs.

Sam Urlacher

Email: urlacher@fas.harvard.edu | Research interests: Reproductive ecology and evolutionary life history theory, energetic and hormonal correlates of human growth and reproduction in small-scale societies.

Katherine Duncan-Zink

HEB Associate Concentration Advisor
Email: kzink@oeb.harvard.edu | Website | Research interests: Skeletal and dental development; Functional integration; Functional morphology; Masticatory biomechanics.

POST DOCS

Zarin Machanda

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2013
Peabody Museum Rm. 50C | 617-496-4262
Email: machanda@fas.harvard.edu

Research interests: the evolution of male-female relationships in primates with a specific focus on chimpanzees living in western Uganda. Her work focuses on male-female association patterns, friendships between males and females and inter-sexual feeding competition. Most recently she has started collaborations to look at coalitions and mutual grooming in chimpanzees

Linda Reynard

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lecturer
Lab Manager for the Biogeochemistry Lab
Peabody Museum 58H | 617-495-8053
Email: lreynard@fas.harvard.edu | Website

Research interests: The applications of stable isotope ratio measurements for bioarchaeology and low-temperature geochemistry.

Amy Skibiel

Postdoc
Peabody Museum 53A | 617-495-0846
Email: amyskibiel@fas.harvard.edu | Website

Research interests: mammalian physiological ecology, life history tradeoffs, maternal investment, impacts of maternal nutrient and hormone transfer in milk on neonate condition and survival, phenotypic programming.

Nancy Tang

Postdoc, Lab Manager for the Dental Hard Tissue Lab
Peabody Museum Rm. 55D | 617-496-3570

Email: ntang@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: discovering what teeth can tell us about development, life history, and death. Dental development in humans and macaques using virtual histology and conventional laboratory techniques.Back to Top

Anna Warrener

Postdoc, Lecturer, Lab Manager for the Skeletal Biology Lab
Peabody Museum 53G | 617-496-8991
Email: awarrener@fas.harvard.edu | Website

COLLEGE FELLOWS

Erik Otarola-Castillo

College Fellow
Email: eotarolacastillo@fas.harvard.edu | Website