Meet these Great People

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​Amy ​Rector

Virginia Commonwealth University

Jamie Hodkins

University of Colorado--Denver

Samantha
​Russak

Southwick's Zoo

Amy Shapiro

Hallie Edmonds

John Rowan

Ignacio Lazagabaster

Amy Rector

Amy received her undergraduate degree at the university of Virginia. She received her PhD in 2010. She is currently Assistant Professor in the School of World Studies 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 is currently the Director of education at Southwick's Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts--as you can possibly imagine from her photo.

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 is currently a postdoc for the Center for Evolution and Medicine, at Arizona State University.

John Rowan

John received his undergraduate degree from Stockton University. He graduated with his PhD in 2018, and is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. You can read more about him here:   http://www.johnjrowan.comhttp://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 is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Haifa.