Student Information
Graduate Student
Anthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Kayla Genord is a current PhD student at Arizona State University affiliated with the Institute for Human Origins. She is interested in the intersection between functional anatomy and paleoanthropology. Kayla has worked at the Plio-Pleistocene site at Laetoli, Tanzania for the past several years digitizing the site 7A trackway and working on preservation of the site's quickly eroding fossil footprint collection. Her current dissertation research is focused on producing extant models to discover how hominin pedal morphology alters with changes in behavior and environments during the Plio-Pleistocene.
Education
2024 - M.A. in Anthropology, University of Colorado-Denver
2020 - B. A. / B. S. in Anthropology / Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University
Research Interests
Functional Anatomy, Paleoanthropology, East Africa