Student Information
Graduate Student
Anthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Kayla Genord is a current graduate student in SHESC interested in the intersection between functional anatomy and paleoanthropology. Kayla has worked at the Plio-Pleistocene site at Laetoli, Tanzania to digitize the site 7A trackway and work of preservation of the site's quickly eroding fossil footprint collection. Her current research is focused on producing extant models to discover how skeletal morphology of hominin post-crania 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