Student Information
Graduate Student
Anthropology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
I attended Tufts University for my undergraduate degree where I double majored in Biopsychology and Science, Technology, and Society. Since earning my BS in 2017, I have had the opportunity to conduct research with wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica, as well as human mother-infant dyads and wild chimpanzees at several field sites throughout Uganda and Tanzania. I am broadly interested in how ecological factors constrain primate social behavior. For my masters, I examined the relationship between food availability and both party size and time spent alone in the wild male and female chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. For my dissertation, I will examine how the variable terrain within and across field sites impacts travel decisions and intraspecific variation in sociality in the wild chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and Kibale National Park and the Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda.
Education
M.A. Anthropology, Arizona State University, 2023
B.S. Biopsychology & Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Tufts University, 2017
