PEOPLE
Siobhán Cully (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)
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 student in Evolutionary Anthropology at the UNM. His research interests include human behavioral ecology, life history theory and evolutionary medicine. His dissertation focuses on understanding diversity in human life courses and how they are shaped by individual and socio-ecological factors. He earned his undergraduate and masters degrees in anthropology from Jahangirnagar University. (Email).
Former members
Daniela Kraemer (Independent Scholar) (2022-2024, postdoc/ Research Assistant Professor)
Kyle Clark (University of Evansville, Assistant Professor) (2022, postdoc)
Darragh Hare (University of Oxford) (2018-2019, postdoc)
Chun-Yi Sum (Boston University (2016-18, postdoc)
Edmond Seabright (Currently Research & Education Fellow, School of Collective Intelligence,) (PhD co-chair with Hilly Kaplan, 2015-2022)
Adam Reynolds (2016-2022, Chair, Stepped down in 2022)
Eric Massengill (Non-Academic) (Co-Chair with Hilly Kaplan, 2016-2018)
Samuel KP Shriver (Non-Academic) (2022-2023)
Hannah MacDonald (Non-Academic) (2016-2018)
Madelyn Gomez (University of New Mexico, Currently in PREP Program) (2023-2024, REU)
Nicholas Allen (2023-2024, REU)
Joseph Merl (2023-2024, REU)
Savannah Gallegos (2023-2024, REU)
Mattie Dunn (Currently in JD Program) (2018-2021, magna cum laude)
Gabrielle D'Angelo Baca (2018-2021)
Bernardo Ubaldo Seixas (2018-2021, summa cum laude); Supported by NSF REU
Elizabeth Medina-Romero (2019-2021, cum laude); Supported by McNair and ROC
Megan Gutierrez (2018-2021)
Bridget Chak (University of Chicago) 2015-2016: Supported by UROP
Hanying Mao (Columbia University) 2015-2016
Jingzhe (Bill) Cao (Cornell University) 2015-2016: Supported by UROP