ABOUT ME
I grew up outside of Chicago Illinois in a small-ish town called Geneva. For some reason this town has produced a few other biological anthroplogists, including Eric Sargis (Professor of Anthropology, Yale University) and Chris Gilbert (a Gaylord Donnelly Fellow at Yale University)...must be something in the drinking water.
I also spent about four years of my childhood here.
I studied with Paul Garber at the University of Illinois (B.A., 1992). Then I did a Master's degree under the direction of Susan Ford at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (M.A., 1999); at Carbondale, I studied platyrrhine systematics, positional behavior, and some anatomy. From Carbondale, I went on to Yale University and worked with David Watts, Alison Richard, and Margaret Riley. At Yale, I studied primate behavioral ecology and population genetics (M.Phil., 2000; Ph.D., 2003). After graduation, I received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Bioinformatics to study demography with Hal Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).
