Amanda Slotter

Amanda Slotter is a doctoral candidate in the Evolutionary Anthropology approach at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and is also affiliated with the Institute of Human Origins (IHO). Her dissertation research focuses on quantifying dental morphological variation in eastern African hominins from the Pliocene (~4.2-3.0 million years ago). She is more broadly interested in studying the paleobiology of early hominins. 

Amanda has conducted field work with the Woranso-Mille paleoanthropological research project (WORMIL), a Pliocene field site located in the Afar region of Ethiopia. She has experience working with the collections from WORMIL and the Galili Paleobiology Project, another Pliocene site from the Afar region of Ethiopia. 

Graduate Institution:

Arizona State University, PhD Student in Evolutionary Anthropology, 2018 - present

Arizona State University, MA in Evolutionary Anthropology, 2016 - 2018

Undergraduate Institution:

Case Western Reserve University, Class of 2016, Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology