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Amanda G. Henry Bio CV Publications

Leader of a Max Planck Independent Research Group on "Plant foods and hominin dietary ecology". Jan 2011 – present.
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University. Jan
2011 – present
Junior Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. Jan 2011– present
Visiting Scientist, Archaeobiology Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution. Sept 2010 – present
Co-director of the Malapa diet team. Jan 2010 – present

Post-doctoral researcher, Jan – Dec 2010, Hominid Paleobiology, The George Washington University. Creation and editing of a forthcoming encyclopedia of human evolution.
Supervisor: Bernard Wood
Ph.D. 31 Jan 2010, Hominid Paleobiology, The George Washington University
Dissertation: Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neandertals and modern humans.
Committee: Alison Brooks and Dolores Piperno, Co-Advisors. Arlene Rosen, Peter Lucas, James O'Connell, Jean-Jacques Hublin
B.A. cum laude, May 2002, Anthropology, Brown University Thesis: Religion and Control: The role of the Roman Imperial Cult at the Petra Small Temple.

The Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant: "Plant diet and the ecology of Neanderthals and modern humans." May 1, 2008; $19344.
The Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship: “Plant foods in Neanderthal and modern human dietary ecology.” Sept 2008-May 2009; $18500.
Grant in Aid of Research, George Washington University chapter of Sigma Xi; “Comparing Neanderthal and Early Modern Human diet from plant microfossils preserved on stone tools and indental calculus.” Spring 2007 $500.
Lewis B. Cotlow Research fund, Department of Anthropology, The George Washington University: “Three Field Projects at Olorgesailie, Kenya.” Summer 2004; $700.

Project: Testing calculus as a source of dietary information in Fremont Indian populations. With: James O’Connell, Joan Brenner-Coltrain, University of Utah
Project: Plant microfossil database on Paleobot.org
With: Jade D'Alpoim Guedes, Harvard University; Tina Warinner, University of Zurich
Project: Environments and diets of the 'Ubeidiya fauna
With: Miriam Belmaker, The College of William and Mary
Project: The diets of the Sima de las Palomas Neanderthals
With: Michael Walker, Universidad de Murcia

Head Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University.
Introduction to Biological Anthropology. Undergraduate course. Enrollment: 17. Summer 2007
Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University
Hominid Evolution. Graduate and Undergraduate course. Enrollment: 24. Fall 2005
Introduction to Biological Anthropology. Undergraduate course. Enrollment in lab sections: 34-60. Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2010

Post-doctoral researcher:
Domingo Carlos Salazar Garcia
Graduate Students:
Robert Power
Stephanie Schnorr
Visiting Students:
Huan Liu
Paid research assistant:
Christine Foltz (George Washington University) Sep 2008 – Dec 2009
Volunteers:
Holly Hudson (Smithsonian) Jun 2007 – Dec 2008
Sara Stickler (University of California Santa Cruz) Dec 2008
Nicole Herzog (Utah University) Oct 2010

Member and Leader, Smithsonian and GWU Excavations, ESA and MSA sediments including the Green Clay site, Olorgesailie Prehistoric Site, Kenya. Summer 2004.
Member, Brown University Excavations, The Great Temple, Petra, Jordan. Summer 2001 and 2002.
Member, Burlington County College Survey and Excavation of the Crosswicks Creek Lenape Indian site, NJ Summer 2000.

June-August 2004: Wrote a daily web log of excavation activities from Olorgesailie, Kenya, for public and school use.
September 2004-May 2005: Replied to questions sent by the public to the Human Origins Program of the Smithsonian.
March 2008: Gave an interview for “The Human Spark” with Alan Alda, on how a unique diet might make us “human.”
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/humanspark/featured/spark-blog-video-ancient-dental-cleaning/223/