BMS 208 - Human Anatomy
BMS 309 - Laboratory in Human Anatomy
 

Ph.D., Dartmouth College, Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society
B.S., Indiana University, Biology

My research is in paleoanthropology where I investigate questions about human evolution. I am specifically interested in the evolution of upright walking, or bipedalism. I study how bipedalism evolved by combining modern human and primate biomechanics of the knee joint with 3D shape analysis of the bones to interpret the fossil record. 

I am also actively involved in field research at the site of Kromdraai Cave in The Cradle of Humankind in South Africa. This site preserves fossil hominin remains from approximately 2 million years ago.