Current Graduate Students

John Rowan

John's research interests include systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology of African mammals from the late Miocene through the present. He is especially interested in the evolution and paleoecology of Bovidae. John received a BA from the John Stockton University.

Ignacio Lazagabaster

Nacho's research interests revolve around the paleoecology and the context of human evolution through the understanding of the evolution of the Suidae (pigs!). Nacho received degrees from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain (BA) and the University of Coimbra, Portugal (MA).

Irene Smail

Irene's research involves hominid and cercopithecid sympatry, behavioral evolution, and stable istope reconstruction of diets. Irene hails from the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she received a BA.

Ellis Locke

Ellis has research interests in the paleoecological context for hominin evolution, evolution of African mammal communities (especially priomates and rodents), biogeography, and Plio-Pleistocene climate change. Ellis's undergraduate degree came from New York University (BA).

Maryse Biernat

Maryse has research interests in African paleoecology. She has attended the Koobi Fora Field School as a student and an instructor, and has had an internship at the Smithsonian Institution. Her BA is from John Stockton University, New Jersey.



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Former Graduate Students

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

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/

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Samantha Russak

Sam was an undergraduate at Miami University, and received her PhD in 2013.

Amy Shapiro

Amy received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, and her PhD in 2014.

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.