Recent Grantees
Fall 2019
Behavioral
Rosemary Bettle, University of Michigan: The evolution of social intelligence in macaques
Matilda Brindle, University College London: Does masturbation serve an adaptive function in male rhesus macaques?
Rebecca Brittain, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey: The role of the gut microbiome in digestion and energy production in wild Bornean orangutans across shifting nutritional landscapes
Margaret Sullivan Buehler, Tulane University: Subordinate male roles in primate groups with high reproductive skew
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Harmonie Klein, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Hunting strategy and food sharing in wild central Chimpanzees
Sze Mei Lee, Monash University: Exploration of olfaction abilities and genetics in Asian indigenous communities
Laura Marie MacLatchy, University of Michigan: Ecological determinants and arboreal feeding positional behavior in Pan troglodytes
Catherine Markham, Stony Brook University: Competition within primate social groups: Rank effects on energy expenditure
Jerred Klint Schafer, The University at Albany: The evolution of sex differences in mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx): Quantitative genetics of color and size dimorphism
Elizabeth Tapanes, The George Washington University: Hair evolution in a comparative context
Julie Teichroeb, University of Toronto: Kinship patterns and mechanisms of male tolerance in a Rwenzori Angolan colobus multi-level society
Linda Vigilant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Elucidating the hidden kinship structure of wild chimpanzee communities in Uganda
Paleoanthropology
Amanuel Yosief Beyin, University of Louisville: Investigation of Acheulean sites in the Red Sea coastal region of the Sudan
William Eamon Callison, Harvard University: Adaptations for bipedal gestation: Measuring the effects of pregnancy on thoracic motion during ventilation
Mulugeta Feseha, ARCCH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Digitizing and distributing the fossil hominin and archaeology collections of the Ethiopian National Museum
Yohannes Haile-Selassie, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History: Middle Pliocene hominin diversity and the origin of Homo: Collecting crucial fossil evidence from Woranso-Mille, Afar Region, Ethiopia
Arina Mikhailovna Khatsenovich, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science: A Levallois refugium in Central Asia: Chronology and causes of conservatism
Alice Leplongeon, FWO Postdoctoral fellow, KU Leuven, Belgium: Chole rock shelter (Tanzania) and past human-environment interactions at the edge of Lake Victoria
Fredrick Manthi, National Museums of Kenya: Explorations of the Middle Pleistocene sites in Natodomeri, northwestern Kenya
Kasih Bohdana Norman, University of Wollongong: Rapid discovery and OSL dating of archaeological sites in Timor
Shanti Pappu, Sharma Centre for Heritage Education: Acheulian evolution and development of the Indian Middle Paleolithic: Continuing research at the stratified sites of Sendrayanpalayam and Kunjavam
Joshua Robert Robinson, Boston University: Multiproxy paleoecology of ~ 2.35 Ma early Homo from Ethiopia
Christina Macie Ryder, University of Colorado Boulder: Saving old bones: Using near-infrared spectroscopy to predict collagen yield in bone.
Eleanor Scerri, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History: Unravelling the rainforest: The Pleistocene cultural record of Anyama (Ivory Coast) and its ecological context
Sileshi Semaw, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH): Middle to Late Stone Age at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: New sites 50-10,000 years ago
Mary Katherine Shenk, Pennsylvania State University: Estimating fertility, disease, and famine using tooth cementum – a validation study in rural Matlab, Bangladesh
Fernando A. Villanea, Brown University: Neanderthal and Denisovan introgression in indigenous Americans
Spring 2019
Behavioral
William L. Allen, Swansea University: Character displacement of face appearance in primate evolution
Sofia Carrera, University of Michigan: Early-life adversity: Maternal effects in a wild primate
Natasha Jane Coutts, The University of Western Australia: Socioecology and the gut microbiome of eastern chimpanzees in Rwanda
John Stephen Lansing, Santa Fe Institute: Pilot study of Cave Punan hunter-gatherers of Borneo
Kevin Lee, Arizona State University: Do female chimpanzees at Ngogo form social bonds, and why?
Emily J. Levy, Duke University: Early adversity, body size, and immune function in wild baboons
Sheina Lew-Levy, Simon Fraser University: Hand-thrown spears: Ballistics, accuracy and learning to hunt among BaYaka Congo Basin foragers
Jayashree Mazumder, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research: Exploring tool-use by long-tailed macaques in the Nicobar Islands, India and associated factors
Arijit Pal, University of Lethbridge: Affordance learning: From object play to tool use?
Sarah Michelle Pope, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: The impact of resource predictability on variation in cognitive flexibility
Gabriele Schino, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Testing the cognitive components of primate cooperation
Christopher A Schmitt, Boston University: Modeling the evolution of obesity: Gene expression, dought, and anthropogenic stress in wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
Andrew John Zamora, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Socio-genomic evolution of Sifakas (Propithecus)
Paleoanthropological
Daniel Adler, University of Connecticut: The Early Pleistocene settlement of Northern Armenia
Andrew William Best, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Diversity and evolution of human eccrine sweat glands
Hervé Bocherens, University of Tübingen: Environment of early hominins outside Africa: The Guadix-Baza Basin
Emanuele Cancellieri, Università di Roma: Archaeology, chronology, and environment of northern Sahara early Middle Stone Age
Mark Conaway, University at Buffalo – SUNY: Hominoid postcranial integration in relation to function and evolutionary history
Darren Curnoe, The University of New South Wales: Tracing the earliest modern humans in island Southeast Asia
Kimberly Foecke, George Washington University: Neanderthal diet: Effects of food selection and processing on δ15N
Irene Gallego Romero, The University of Melbourne: Functional evaluation of archaic Denisovan variants in Island Southeast Asia
Daniel García Martínez, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana: Covariation of internal and external costal anatomy and its importance for understanding the evolution of the human thorax
Deanna Murphy Goldstein, Johns Hopkins University: Carpal allometry among African apes and other mammals
Lauren Gonzales, University of South Carolina: Reconstructing the paleoecology of the middle Miocene (>14.7 Mya) site of Maboko Island, western Kenya
Terry Harrison, New York University: Paleoanthropological research in the Lower Laetolil Beds, Tanzania
Erella Hovers, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Giant core workshops at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena, Ethiopia
Richard F. Kay, Duke University: Recovering Paleogene and early Neogene Primates from Tropical South America
Clare Kimock, New York University: Rhesus macaque canine dimorphism in evolutionary context
Jonathan N. Paige, Arizona State University: Estimating the reliability of stone tools in reconstructing cultural relationships in prehistory
Justin Pargeter, New York University: The archaeological sequence at Boomplaas Cave, South Africa: New light on human adaptations to rapid climate change across the late Pleistocene
Ismael Sánchez Morales, University of Arizona: Aterian lithic technological variability: Implications for MSA land-use in Morocco
Chalachew Seyoum, Arizona State University: Collection and preparation of modern gelada monkey remains from Guassa Community Conservation Area and Simien Mountain National Park, Ethiopia
Irene Smail: Arizona State University: Community ecology of living and fossil cercopithecid primates
Elizabeth Werren, University of Michigan: Human-specific gene expansion during human brain evolution
Yossi Zaidner, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: New Middle Paleolithic human fossils from the Levant: Excavations at Tinshemet Cave, Israel
Fall 2018
Behavioral
Andrew B Bernard, University of Michigan: Effects of climate change on primates, their habitat, and food
Nicolas Brucato, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier: Adaptive introgression from Denisova at high-altitude in New Guinea
Melanie Rose Fenton, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey: Coercive and affiliative mating tactics in olive baboons
Stephanie Fox, University of New Mexico: Social tolerance and the function of differentiated relationships among wild female chimpanzees
James Higham, New York University: Is cone ratio variation in free-ranging rhesus macaques functional and heritable?
Mareike Janiak, University of Calgary: Understanding adaptive radiation through the evolution of digestive enzymes
Laura Rose Labarge, State University of New York at Buffalo: The ecology of fear in wild samango monkeys
Rachel Petersen, New York University: Sperm preference, ejaculate allocation, and socio-sexual signaling in olive baboons
Amy Scott, Boston University: Sexual conflict and sexual selection in Bornean orangutan reproductive strategies
Sharmi Sen, University of Michigan: Examining the causes and consequences of variation in male reproductive strategies in wild geladas
Kara Walker, Duke University: Female dispersal and philopatry in chimpanzees of Gombe National Park
Paleoanthropology
Christopher Brochu, University of Iowa: Revision of crocodylians from hominid-bearing sites in East Africa
Nicolas Brucato, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier: Adaptive introgression from Denisova at high-altitude in New Guinea
Miranda Nicole Cosman, University of Michigan: Skeletal ontogenetic responses to positional behavior in Hominoids
Lucile Crété, Bournemouth University: Multiproxy study of ancient antelopes’ diet to investigate past vegetation changes in the Omo-Turkana basin (3.5-1.6 Myr)
Sabrina Curran, Ohio University: Taphonomy and chronology of Pleistocene fossil sites in central Romania
Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales: Taphonomic study of the onset and evolution of the use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
Dagmawit Abebe Getahun, City University of New York: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Theropithecus using skulls and genes
Clifford William Heil, University of Rhode Island: Constraining hominin record through high-resolution paleomagnetic stratigraphy at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
John (Jay) Kelley, Arizona State University: Dental developmental chronologies of fossil catarrhine primates from East Africa
Richard Klein, Stanford University: Dating human skulls from South African fossil hyena dens
Susan Lagle, University of California at Davis: Investigating seasonality in Quina contexts in southwestern France
Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, National Museums of Kenya: Investigations of Middle Pleistocene sites in Natodomeri, northwestern Kenya
Daniela Matos, Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA): Paleolandscape of the Pleistocene and Holocene of Leba (Southwest Angola)
Emma Nguvi Mbua, National Museums of Kenya: Extending excavations at A. afarensis site at Kantis Fossil Site, Kenya
Faye McGechie, University of Missouri: Functional myology of the primate neck: Implications for hominin evolution
Marie-Helene Moncel, National Museum of Natural History: 700-600 ka: A threshold in human evolution in Europe? Notarchirico (Southern Italy) and the question of the earliest Acheulean techno-complexes
April Nowell, University of Victoria: Protein Residue Analysis and Middle Pleistocene Dietary Adaptations (Azraq, Jordan)
Shanti Pappu, Sharma Centre for Heritage Education: Acheulian evolution and transitions to the Middle Palaeolithic in India
Tomos Proffitt, University College London: The capuchin Stone Age and the emergence of human technology
Gabrielle Russo, Stony Brook University: Excavation of a partial ape skeleton and continued paleontological exploration at Napudet, Turkana Basin, Kenya
Sileshi Semaw, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana: Continued Investigation of Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological sites and associated hominin cranium at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia
Rhiannon Stevens, University College London: Hunting for human and Neanderthal fossils at Kent’s Cavern, England
Spring 2018
Behavioral
Andrea Baden, Hunter College – CUNY: What drives microbiome development and maintenance in a fission-fusion primate?
Elisa Bandini, University of Tübingen: Testing for stone flake use in Brazilian wild bearded capuchins
Grace Davis, University of California, Davis: Leading according to need in a spider monkey fission-fusion society
Sofya Dolotovskaya, The German Primate Center: Does pair-living translate into genetic monogamy in a Neotropical primate?
Benjamin Finkel, University Of Michigan: Aging apes: Foraging strategies of old chimpanzees at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda
(Ann) Catherine Markham, Stony Brook University: Hormonal and behavioral signatures of competition within primate social groups
Susan Perry, University of California, Los Angeles: Capuchin behavioral variability and learning strategies across the lifespan
Sarah Phillips-Garcia, University of New Mexico: Trade-offs between reproduction and Immune function in female primates
India Schneider-Crease, University of Washington: Social drivers of health: Early life adversity and immunity in primates
Tauras Vilgalys, Duke University: Natural selection on gene regulation following admixture in wild baboons
Katherine Wander, Binghamton University (SUNY): Trade-offs in milk immunity
Erin Weigel, University at Buffalo: Use of play signals in captive immature western lowland gorillas
Anja Widdig, Leipzig University: Chemical cues for advertising female fertility in primates
Matthew Zipple, Duke University: Maternal early adversity, maternal care, and offspring survival
Paleoanthropology
Rachel Bynoe, University of Southampton: Exploring a submerged Pleistocene site off Happisburgh, UK
Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: The evolution of niche differentiation among platyrrhine primates
Dorien de Vries, Stony Brook University: Dental topographic evolution in primate and rodent radiations
Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University: New Middle Paleolithic human remains from the southern Levant: the Tinshemet Cave
Jamie Hodgkins, University of Colorado, Denver: Chronology and ecological conditions of Neandertal disappearance in Liguria, Italy
John Hoffecker, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado: Modern human dispersal on the East European Plain
Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Romano-Germanic Museum: Middle Paleolithic seasonal land use adaptations in the Southern Caucasus: Excavations at Kalavan 2 (Armenia)
Lauren Michel, Tennessee Tech University: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the early Miocene Kiahera Formation, Rusinga Island
Agazi Negash, Addis Ababa University: Obsidian geochemical perspective of the emergence of modern human behavior
Liv Nilsson Stutz, Linnaeus University: The Early Upper Paleolithic macrobotanical assemblage from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan
Abigail Nishimura, Stony Brook University: Functional morphology and macroevolution of the mammalian cervical vertebral column
Travis Pickering, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Continued investigations of Oldowan hominin behavior at Swartkrans, South Africa
Kathryn Ranhorn, Harvard University: High-resolution Late Pleistocene-Holocene excavations at Kisese II Rockshelter, Kondoa (Tanzania)
Hesham Sallam, Mansoura University: Exploration for Oligocene catarrhines and other primates around Siwa Oasis, Egypt
Mathew Stewart, University of New South Wales: Palaeontological and archaeological investigations of the Pleistocene fossil deposits of Saudi Arabia
Nicolas Zwyns, University of California, Davis: Late Neandertal adaptation In North-West Europe: The cave of Trou Al’Wesse (Belgium)
Fall 2017
Behavioral
Brendan Barrett, University of California Davis: Stone tool use & taxonomic status of Coiba Archipelago capuchins
Leveda Cheng, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Behavioural and endocrinological correlates of intergroup encounters in bonobos
Alba García de la Chica, University of Barcelona: Behavioral, hormonal and life-history correlates of pair bonding in owl monkeys
Sharon Gursky, Texas A&M University: The function of ultrasonic vocalizations in spectral tarsiers.
Duna Susie Lee, New York University: The role of testosterone in the modulation of parental behaviors in female rhesus macaques
Elizabeth Mallott, Northwestern University: Response of primate gut microbiome function to increased faunivory
Caroline Schuppli, University of Zürich: Orangutan mothers’ adaptive strategies to make their infants develop fast
Meagan Vakiener, The George Washington University: Weaned age in gorillas using trace element distributions in teeth
Melissa Wilson Sayres, Arizona State University: Quantifying the variation and heritability of X-inactivation
Paleoanthropology
James Blinkhorn, University of Liverpool: The Late Acheulean to Middle Palaeolithic transition in South Asia
Breanne Clifton, University of Connecticut: Using phytoliths to reconstruct hominin adaptations and microhabitats during the Acheulian-MSA transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
Dylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge: The initial colonization of insular rainforests by archaic and modern hominins
Christopher Gilbert, Hunter College, City University of New York: Primate evolution, chronology, and biogeography in the Indian Lower Siwaliks
Kevin Hatala, Chatham University: Paleoecological investigation of 1.5 Ma footprint sites near Nariokotome, Kenya
Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, James Cook University: Dating hominin fossils in the East African Rift, Malawi
Tania King, University College London: Neanderthal occupation of the southern Caucasus: Chronological and biogeographic framework
Amanda Leiss, Yale University: Paleoenvironmental context of ESA archaeology: An analysis of Gona fauna.
Fredrick Manthi (Gordon Getty Grant Recipient), National Museums of Kenya: Investigations of Middle Pleistocene sites in Natodomeri, northwestern Kenya
Laurent Marivaux, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM): Oligocene and Miocene platyrrhine primates from Tarapoto, Peruvian Amazonia
Steffen Mischke, University of Iceland: Environment of early hominins outside of Africa: The Nihewan Basin
Jonathan Reeves, The George Washington University: Movement ecology and Pleistocene hominin land-use: Perspectives from Koobi Fora
Sileshi Semaw, CENIEH: Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project
Frido Welker, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Towards complex Pleistocene hominin proteomes using multiple proteases.
Spring 2017
Behavioral
Laura Abondano, University of Texas at Austin: Mating strategies of female lowland woolly monkeys in Amazonian Ecuador
Iulia Badescu, Yale University: Infant feeding and nutritional development correlates of fitness components in wild chimpanzees
Joel Bray, ASU Foundation for A New American University: Social relationships in male chimpanzees: Form, function, and development
Elaine Gomez Guevara, Yale University: Epigenetics of primate longevity
Sean Lee, The George Washington University: The ontogeny of social behavior and facial form in Pan
Stefano Carlo Lucchesi, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Role of ecology in intercommunity relations in bonobos, Kokolopori, DRC
Carrie Miller, University of Minnesota: Does paternity certainty elicit protection and support of offspring by male gelada monkeys?
Sam Patterson, Arizona State University: Maternal predictors of infant developmental trajectories in olive baboons
Megan Petersdorf, New York University: The reproductive ecology of the little-known Kinda baboon (Papio kindae)
David Samson, Duke University: What drives sleep flexibility? A comparative investigation of circumpolar and equatorial hunter-gatherers
Paleoanthropology
Irisa Arney, University of Michigan: East African Miocene evolutionary ecology
Amy Bauernfeind, Washington University: Comparative gene expression of primate cerebellum
Aly Baumgartner, Baylor University: Paleoclimatic reconstruction of the Miocene on Rusinga Island, Kenya
Marianne Brasil, University of California, Berkeley: Skeletal morphology of early Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia
Lucia Carbone, Oregon Health & Science University: Investigating how the LAVA retroelement shaped the gibbon transcriptome
Marco Cherin, University of Perugia: Exploring Site S: New bipedal footprints at Laetoli (Tanzania)
Susanne Cote, University of Calgary: Excavation of an exceptionally preserved Miocene catarrhine at Moruorot, Kenya
Harold Dibble, University of Pennsylvania: A micro-contextual approach to Neandertal fire use at Pech de l’Azé IV (France)
Tamara Dogandzic, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Late Middle and Early Upper Paleolithic in the Balkans
Emma Finestone, Graduate Center, City University of New York: Examining the Oldowan through time on the Homa Peninsula
Mae Goder-Goldberger, University of Ben Gurion in the Negev: The site of Far’ah II, western Negev, and the MP-UP transition
Andres Gomez, J. Craig Venter Institute: Host-microbe interactions in the primate gut: Implications for human origins
Jason Kamilar, University of Massachusetts Amherst: The evolutionary ecology of primate hair and skin microbiomes
Elaine Kozma, Graduate Center, City University of New York: Climbing performance in African apes
Shannon McFarlin, The George Washington University: Skeletal recovery and research of Bwindi mountain gorillas, Uganda
Enquye Negash, The George Washington University: Modelling vegetation structure in modern ecosystems; Implications for hominin ecospace
Thomas Plummer, Queens College, City University of New York: Excavation of ca. 2.6 Ma Oldowan sites at Nyayanga, Kenya
Christian Tryon, Harvard University: Archaeology and modern human origins: Investigations of the Late Pleistocene Nyanza Rift, Kenya
Deming Yang, Stony Brook University: Isotopic variability among Plio-Pleistocene Turkana suids: Paleoenvironments and hominin evolution