Education
2012 Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
2002 Master of Science with a Major in Biology
Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University
Professional employment
2018-Present Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio
2017-2018 Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017 Adjunct Professor
Department of Anthropology, Tulane University
2016 Research Associate
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
2015 Sessional Instructor
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary
2012-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Integrated Biosciences, University of Tokyo
2008-2012 Sessional Instructor
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
Awards, fellowships, grants, and scholarships
2020 Research Grant
L.S.B Leakey Foundation
2019 Research Grant
L.S.B Leakey Foundation
PI: Dr. Julie Teichroeb
2020 COLFA Stumberg Summer Research Award
UTSA
2019 Internal Research Awards Grant Program
UTSA
2019 Academic innovation course redesign grant
UTSA
2018 Grid for Grant, Office of Information Technology
UTSA
National Geographic Society
PI: Dr. Katharine Jack
2016 Sessional Travel Grant
University of Calgary
2015 Goldberg Research Grant
Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation
PI: Dr. Katharine Jack
2015 Research Grant
L.S.B Leakey Foundation
PI: Dr. Katharine Jack
2015 Research Grant
International Primatological Society
2012-2014 Fellowship
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Nominated via the Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences
2011-2012 Dean's Doctoral Scholarship
University of Calgary
2010 Dissertation Field Work Grant
Wenner-Gren Foundation
2010 Student Research Award
Animal Behavior Society
2010 Conference Travel Grant
Research Services, University of Calgary
2009 Student Travel Award
American Society of Primatology
2009 Research Grant
International Primatological Society
2009 Conservation through community
involvement grant
International Primatological Society
2009 Travel Funds
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
2008 General Grant
L.S.B Leakey Foundation
2007-2011 Ingenuity PhD Student Scholarship
Alberta Ingenuity
2007 Scholarship
Sweden-America foundation
2007 Research Grant
American Society of Primatology
2007 Thesis Research Grant
University of Calgary
2006-2009 Summer Research Stipend
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
2006 Travel Funds
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
2005 The Dean’s Entrance Scholarship
Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary
2005-2011 Graduate Research Scholarship
Department of Anthropology, University of Calgary
Research experience
2015 Research, Molecular Anthropology
Group, USA
Lab PI: Dr. Nelson Ting, Department of Anthropology and the Institute
of Ecology and Evolution, the University of Oregon
2014 Postdoctoral Research, Área de
Conservación
Guanacaste, Costa Rica
2013 Postdoctoral Research, Santa Rosa National
Park, Costa Rica
2012-2014 Postdoctoral Research, Kawamura
Laboratory, Japan
Lab PI: Dr. Shoji Kawamura, Department of Integrated Biosciences,
University of Tokyo
2010-2011 Doctoral Research, Ting
Laboratory, USA
Lab PI: Dr. Nelson Ting, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
2008 Doctoral Research, New York University
Primatology Lab, USA
Lab PI: Dr. Todd Disotell, Department of Anthropology, New York
University
Collaborator: Nelson Ting, Ph.D. candidate at the New York Consortium
for Evolutionary Primatology
2006-2012 Doctoral Research, Boabeng-Fiema
Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana
Advisor: Dr. Pascale Sicotte, Department of Anthropology, University of
Calgary
2004-2005 Field Assistant, Moremi Game
Reserve, Botswana
PI: Dr. Catherine Crockford and Dr. Roman Wittig, the Department of
Biology, University of Pennsylvania
2003-2004 Data Analyst, Leipzig, Germany
PI: Dr. Susan Perry, Junior Scientists Group on Cultural Phylogeny, Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2002-2003 Field Assistant, Lomas Barbudal
Biological Reserve, Costa
Rica
PI: Dr. Susan Perry, Junior Scientists Group on Cultural Phylogeny, Max
Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2001 Field Assistant, Grimsö Research
Station, Sweden
PI: Dr. Jens Karlsson, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
2001 Field Assistant, Färnebofjärden
National Park, Sweden
PI: Dr. Mikael Hake, the County Administration of Västmanlands län
2001 Field Assistant, Grimsö Research
Station, Sweden
PI: Dr. Petter Kjellander, the Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences
2000 Master’s research, Tovetorp Research
Station, Sweden
Advisor: Dr. Tomas Ljungberg, Department of Zoology, Stockholm
University