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)

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 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)

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)

Joseph is an undergraduate student at UNM majoring in Emergency Medical Services. He is focused on providing care in austere environments and in places without stable medical access. Joseph is also interested in the effects of personal and societal perceptions on health dynamics across different cultures.

Nick is a third-year undergraduate at the University of New Mexico (UNM) studying Anthropology and Political Science. He is currently a part of the Anthropology Honors program at UNM and plans to do his senior thesis on nationalism and the symbolic expression of nationalism. Nick is excited about this opportunity and looks forward to learning more about the research process.

Maddie is currently a junior at UNM studying Biochemistry and is aiming towards a career in lab work and research as well as a member of the UNM Honors College. She has an interest in a variety of the sciences including environmental, biochemical, and astronomy. Outside of academia she has a passion for the outdoors and the arts including music and visual art such as painting.