Siobhán Mattison

Lab Director

Siobhán is an anthropologist and biologist with interests in evolution, behavioral ecology, kinship, reproduction, demography, health, social inequality, and quantitative and mixed methods. She works in economically transitioning societies in China and Vanuatu to understand the evolutionary causes and consequences of inequality, reproductive skew, sex-biased parental investment, adoption and fosterage, and health behaviors. (CV) (Email)

Kyle J. Clark

Postdoctoral Scholar, since 2022

Kyle's research interests lie at the intersection of kinship, religion, and altruism, especially in Borneo and Vanuatu. Currently, he seeks to understand the evolutionary underpinnings that shape patterns and practices of adoption and fosterage in Vanuatu. (Email)

Daniela Kraemer

Research Assistant Professor, since 2022

Daniela is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of New Mexico, as well as an Adjunct Anthropology Lecturer at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo Canada. She earned her Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. Her ethnographic research focuses on urban social transformation and ways of being urban in Port Vila, Vanuatu a South Pacific nation. She investigates the many ways peoples’ social relationships with family, neighbors, partners, and ‘place’ become transformed in Port Vila, which is a relatively new urbanizing context. In the HFED Lab, she works on issues related to fertility transition. (Email) (Personal website)

Ruizhe (Rachel) Liu

Graduate Student, since 2019

Ruizhe is a PhD student in anthropology. She once majored in Archaeology, and now she is interested in the effects of identity on in-group versus out-group cooperation. She also focuses on human behavioral ecology and material culture of ethinic groups in China. She earned her MA in 2021 and is supported by an NSF REG. (Email)

Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan

Graduate Student, since 2022

Khaled is a PhD candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology at the UNM. His PhD research focuses on how cultural, gendered, and religious societal norms affect health outcomes and care ethics, and shape professional values in hospital settings. He earned his undergraduate and MA degrees in anthropology from Jahangirnagar University. (Email)