Affiliated Researchers
Timothy G. Bromage, Ph.D.
Professor
Hard Tissue Research Unit
Department of Biomaterials & Biomimetics
New York University College of Dentistry
Email: tim.bromage@nyu.edu
website
Research Interests
- hard tissue biology
- paleoanthropology
- chronobiology
- organismal life history
Christina Bergey, Ph.D.
Post-Doc
Anthropological Genomics Laboratory
Pennsylvania State Department of Anthropology
Email:christina.bergey@gmail.com
website
Research Interests
- population genomics
- hybridization
- phylogenetics
- bioinformatics
Anthony Di Fiore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Texas at Austin
Email: anthony.difiore@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests
- behavior and ecology of ateline primates
- molecular genetic investigations of New World monkey social systems
- tropical forest biodiversity and phenology
- evolution of monogamy and pair-bonding in primates
- phylogenetics
- tropical forest biodiversity and phenology
Eugene E. Harris, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences and Geology
Queensborough Community College
City University of New York
Email: EHarris@qcc.cuny.edu
Research Interests
- evolutionary and anthropological genetics
- human genetic adaptation
- phylogeography of Howler monkeys
- molecular phylogeny of African monkeys
Erella Hovers, Ph.D.
Professor
The Institute of Archaeology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Email: hovers@mscc.huji.ac.il
website
Research Interests
- Plio-Pleistocene archaeology in East Africa
- the Middle Paleolithic of the Levant
- the evolution of symbolism and art
- lithic technology
- subsistence and mobility (land-use strategies) of early hominins
- taphonomy and site formation processes
- archaeological theory
Gary Marcus, Ph.D.
Professor
NYU Department of Psychology
Director NYU Center for Child Language
Email: gary.marcus@nyu.edu
website
Research Interests
- evolutionary psychology
- evolution of language
- language acquisition
- cognitive development
Eleni Nikitopoulos, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Life Sciences Department
New York Institute of Technology
Email: enikitop@nyit.edu
Research Interests
- primate behavior and ecology
- evolution of sexual behavior
- behavioral genetics
Vince Pigott, Ph.D.
Honorary Visiting Professor
Institute of Archaeology, London
Email: vcpigott@aol.com
Research Interests
- southeast Asian prehistory
- Near Eastern archaeology
- archaeometallurgy of the Asian Old World
- anthropology of technology
- archaeological science
Joseph Schuldenrein, Ph.D., R.P.A.
President and Principal Geoarchaeologist
Geoarcheology Research Associates
Email: joseph.schuldenrein@gra-geoarch.com
website
Research Interests
- geoarchaeological method and theory
- late Quaternary landscape reconstruction
- forensic geoarchaeology
- cultural resource management
- Old World archaeology and human ecology
- urban geoarchaeology
Milena R. Shattuck, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Hunter College, City University of New York
Visiting Researcher/Lecturer
Center for the Study of Human Origins
NYU Department of Anthropology
Email: milena.shattuck@hunter.cuny.edu
Research Interests
- primate evolution
- molecular evolution
- behavioral genetics and endocrinology
- sexual selection
- life history
Denise Su, Ph.D.
Curator and Head of Paleobotany & Paleoecology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Email:dsu@cmnh.org
Research Interests
- hominin evolution
- paleoecology
Anthony J. Tosi, Ph.D.
Criminalist, Level III
Forensic Biology Laboratory
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME)
Research Interests
- molecular forensics
- systematics
- population genetics
- phylogeography of nonhuman primates
Yingqi Zhang, Ph.D.
Affiliated Scholar of Anthropology
Associate Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP)
Research Interests
- Quaternary mammalian fauna of South-east Asia
- paleobiology of Gigantopithecus
- EDJ morphology of Asian hominoids
- application of statistics and geometric morphometrics in paleoanthropology
- arvicoline biochronology