IPS title
 
 
     
  Curriculum Vitae  
     
  Education  
     
 
  • Ph.D. with distinction in August 2004, University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, Doctoral dissertation title: “Evolution of the human life history: Ontogeny and behavior in two South American indigenous populations”
  • M.S. with distinction in November 2001, University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology
  • B.A. with Honors in December 1998, Colorado State University, Department of Anthropology, Magna cum laude
 
 
 
 
 
  Employments  
     
 
  • Postdoctoral researcher, Junior Research Group in Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, 2007-present
  • Research Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Colorado at Denver, 2006-7
  • Lecturer, Anthropology Department, University of New Mexico, 2006
  • Lecturer, Anthropology Department, University of California-Santa Barbara, 2005
  • Lab worker, Abratech Corporation (NIH-funded), Sausalito, California, 2004
 
 
 
 
 
  Teaching  
     
 
  • "Introduction to Biological Anthropology” and “Darwinian Approach to Human Behavior”, CU-Denver, 2007
  • “Human Lifecourse”, “Human Evolutionary Ecology”, and “Human Biology”, UNM, 2006
  • “Human Growth and Development”, UCSB, 2005
  • Graduate Assistant for “Anthropology 101”, UNM, 4 semesters, 1999-2001
  • Teaching Assistant for “Archaeological Field School” and “Archaeological Practicum”, CSU, 1999
 
 
 
 
 
  Research Interests  
     
 
  • Human life history evolution, behavioral ecology, hunter-gatherers, South America, growth and development, comparative primate demography, agent-based modeling, structural equation modeling, and metabolic scaling
 
 
 
 
 
  Awards  
     
 
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, August 2001-August 2004
  • UNM Lewis R. Binford Graduate Fellowship, August 1999-May 2002
  • UNM Brolio-Basehart SAA Poster Award, April 2001
  • CSU Distinguished Scholar’s Award, President’s Scholarship, and Center for Human Paleoecology Distinguished Student Award
  • 5th Annual CSU Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, Poster of Highest Distinction Award
 
 
 
 
 
 

Fieldwork

 
     
 
  • Postdoctoral research, demographic survey of Carib populations in Brazil and Suriname, Fall 2006
  • Postdoctoral research, visual evoked potentials/electroencephalography, Ache forager-horticulturists, Paraguay, June-July 2004 and February-March 2005
  • &Doctoral dissertation fieldwork, Makú-Nadëb horticultural-foragers, Rio Uneiuxi Indigenous Area, Amazonas, Brazil, December 2002-December 2003
  • Doctoral dissertation fieldwork, Ache forager-horticulturists, eastern Paraguay, May-August 2000, January 2001, & June 2002
  • Archaeology, Rio Rancho Site, New Mexico, November 1999-March 2000
  • Archaeology, Hudson-Meng Bison Bonebed, Nebraska, May 1998 and Summer 1999
  • Archaeology, Vore Buffalo Jump, Wyoming, July 1998
  • Archaeology, Kaplan-Hoover Bison Bonebed, Colorado, June 1998-May 1999
  • Coastal and Rainforest Ecology, School for Field Studies, British Columbia, Spring 1996