My research broadly focuses on the variables of stress that impact primate skeletal shape and morphology. Currently, my primary focus is on the patterns and causes of asymmetry in the human skeleton including the mechanisms, such as early life stress and biomechanical stress, that can impact growth of the body.

News
Asymmetry:

• "Mountain gorilla inbreeding has distorted their facial features" (New Scientist) 

Mountain Gorilla Skeletal Project:

• "Exhuming Rwanda's Gorillas" Fossey's Legacy" (NPR)
• "Bones the Size of a Pea" (NPR)
• "Poetry in Pathology" (NPR)
• "Skeletons in the mist" 

Research & Fieldwork

• Field Director & Researcher on Mountain Gorilla Skeletal Project, Rwanda, Africa (2013 & 2016)
• Graduate Assistant to Dr. Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel. Buffalo Human Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, SUNY at Buffalo, NY (2015)​
• Field Technician at University at Buffalo Archaeological Survey, Buffalo, NY (2015)
• Research Assistant to Dr. Charles Roseman. Project: Integration and evolution of human and non-human primate post cranial morphology. Anthropology Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL (2013-2014)
• Archaeologist at AMEC Earth & Environmental Inc., Indianapolis, IN (2007-2012)
• Laboratory Assistant to Dr. Stephen Nawrocki and Dr. Krista Latham. Archeology and Forensics Laboratory, University of Indianapolis, IN (2006-2011)
• Assistant Field Director & Researcher on Mountain Gorilla Skeletal Project, Rwanda, Africa (2008-2011)
• Assistant Field Director & Researcher on Amboseli Baboon Skeletal Project, Kenya, Africa (2009-2010)
• Field Technician at Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc., Brownsville, PA (2005-2006)

Skeleton of an infant mountain gorilla. From National Geographic Magazine, March 2009.