Research Affiliates

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• Elise J. Laugier
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow - Visiting Scientist
• Specialization: Environmental archaeology, land use, paleoethnobotany, geospatial approaches, Southwest Asia
• Degree and University: PhD, Dartmouth College, 2021
• elise.laugier@rutgers.edu

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• Director of the Turkana Basin Institute and Research Associate, SAS
• Annual Lecturer in Anthropology
• Specialization: hominin evolution and ecology, Old World prehistory, zooarcheology; Africa, Europe
• Degree and University: PhD, Stanford University, 2011
• jason.lewis@rutgers.edu

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• Specialization: Primate behavior and ecology, sociality, life history, energetics, parasitology, conservation
• Degree and University: Ph.D., Anthropology, Boston University, 2018
• ocon233@usc.edu

Read more: Caitlin A. O'Connell

• Degree and University: Ph.D. Evolutionary Anthropology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2011
• sschaefe@anthropology.rutgers.edu

Dissertation: Personality, Subjective Well-Being, and Vocal Communication in Captive Male Western Lowland Gorillas

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• Visiting Research Associate
• Degree and University: PhD, Rutgers University, 2016
• darshana.shapiro@rutgers.edu
• https://sites.google.com/view/darshanashapiro/home

Dissertation: Characterizing density and anisotropy in the trabecular architecture of the primate ilium and ischium

• Degree and University: B.A., University of South Africa; M.A., Goldsmiths-London (United Kingdom); Ph.D., UCL-London (United Kingdom)
• ct517@anthropology.rutgers.edu

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• Degree and University: Ph.D., Evolutionary Anthropology, Rutgers University, 2012
• hwasielewski@hotmail.com

Read more: Helen Wasielewski Schaffer

VISITING RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Degree and University: PhD, University of Pennsylvania (Anthropology), 1981
Specialization: Early hominin growth, diet, and landscape use; Pleistocene archaeology of Southern Africa; trace element and isotopic analysis of fossil skeletal tissue.

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• Andrew Van Horn
• Visiting Research Associate/Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University
• Specialization: digital humanities, cooperation, art, artificial intelligence, human evolution
• Degree and University: Ph.D., Anthropology, Temple University, 2019
• andrew.vanhorn@rutgers.edu
• https://www.andrewvanhorn.com