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I'm a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary anthropologist broadly interested in the evolution of social relationships. My research combines long-term field research, social network analysis, and comparative methods to examine (1) why closely related species form social groups of different shapes and sizes and (2) how social relationships shape health and fitness across the lifespan. In other words, what selective pressures favored the evolution of tight-knit or loose social relationships in the distant past? And how do social relationship help animals survive in the present?

I'm currently a postdoc at Arizona State University and recently completed an NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. In my current work, I'm building a database to identify the ecological and social forces that shape between-species variation in sociality across baboons and their close relatives, like geladas, mandrills, and mangabeys. In 2023, I completed my PhD in the Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences at Stony Brook University, where I examined the links between sociality and reproductive success in female gelada monkeys.

Contact:
Institute of Human Origins
Arizona State University
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