About me
I am an anthropologist, comparative anatomist, and paleontologist currently working as a Doctoral Lecturer in Anthropology at Hunter College, City University of New York. Broadly, I am interested in environmental and sensory adaptation in living and extinct euarchontoglirans. I explore adaptation in two primary ways:
1) I use the comparative method to study how modern species are adapted to their environments and apply this work to the fossil record. This work helps us understand how anatomical specialization can allow a species to thrive in challenging conditions.
2) I collect fossils in Eocene (33-56 million years ago) sediments in North America to understand the extent of mammalian latitudinal and elevational range. I consider how elevation impacts euarchontogliran speciation and extinction.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to know more about my work.
1) I use the comparative method to study how modern species are adapted to their environments and apply this work to the fossil record. This work helps us understand how anatomical specialization can allow a species to thrive in challenging conditions.
2) I collect fossils in Eocene (33-56 million years ago) sediments in North America to understand the extent of mammalian latitudinal and elevational range. I consider how elevation impacts euarchontogliran speciation and extinction.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to know more about my work.