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Former Awesome Graduate Students with PhDs!!

Meet these Great People

Scroll down to find information of each.

​Amy ​Rector

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Jamie Hodkins

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Samantha
​Russak

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Amy Shapiro

Hallie Edmonds

John Rowan

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Ignacio Lazagabaster

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Irene Smail

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Ellis Locke

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Chalachew Mesfin Seyoum

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Amy Rector

Amy received her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD in 2010. She is currently Associate Professor in the School of World Studies, where she is also Director, at Virginia Commonwealth University.  You can read more about her and her research here: http://wp.vcu.edu/arverrelli/

Jamie Hodgkins

Jamie was an undergraduate at the University of Colorado, Boulder and received her PhD in 2012. The co-Chairs of her committee were Curtis Marean and me. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. You can read more about her here: 
https://clas.ucdenver.edu/directory/faculty-staff/jamie-hodgkins

Samantha Russak

Sam was an undergraduate at Miami University, and received her PhD in 2013. Sam began her career as Director of education at Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts--as you can possibly imagine from her photo. She is currently at the Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas. 

Amy Shapiro

Amy received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, and her PhD in 2014. Amy is currently a data scientist at Yelp!

Hallie Edmonds

Hallie received her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona. She received her PhD in 2017. She was a postdoc for the Center for Evolution and Medicine, at Arizona State University until Fall 2021. She is now in the Biological Sciences Faculty at Northern Arizona University.

John Rowan

John received his undergraduate degree from Stockton University. He graduated with his PhD in 2018, And after doing a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst, he is now Assistant Professor at SUNY, Albany. . You can read more about him here:  http://www.johnjrowan.com/


Ignacio (Nacho) Lazagabaster

Nacho received his BA in Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and his MA from the University of Coimbra, Portual. He graduated in 2018 and completed a postdoc at the University of Haifa. He recently completed a postdoc at the Museum für Naturkundein Berlin, Germany. Currently, he has a postdoc at the University of Liverpool working on envrionmental modeling of species distributions.

Irene Smail

Irene received a BA in Classics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She defended her PhD in 2021 and currently is a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

Ellis Locke

Ellis received a BA in Anthropology from New York University and defended his PhD in 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine in Meridian, Idaho.

Chalachew Seyoum

Chalachew received his BA and MA from Addis Ababa University and worked for the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage In Ethiopia. He attended the Hadar Field School and came to ASU to work under co-chairs, Bill Kimbel and me. He graduated with his PhD in 2020. He is currently a lecturer at
the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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