David R. Braun (advisor: John W.K. Harris) Ecological and evolutionary aspects of early hominin technology. Lithic Analysis, Digital Image Analysis, Africa, Old World Paleolithic Archaeology. drbraun@eden.rutgers.edu

Montserrat Soler Cruz (advisor: Lee Cronk): Religious signaling and cooperation in Candomble terreiros in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.  carmin@eden.rutgers.edu

Bria Dunham (advisor: Lee Cronk): Courtship signaling, attractiveness, facial masculinity/femininity,engagement rings, commitment, spousal obligation, male parenting behavior brialane@rci.rutgers.edu

Rolando de Aguiar (advisor: Robert Trivers) Evolution of deceit and self-deception in humans; deceit in intraspecific signaling systems. http://eden.rutgers.edu/~deaguiar

Lisa Danish (advisor: Ryne Palombit) Primate behavioral ecology, social behavior in baboons. ldanish@eden.rutgers.edu

Andrew Gerkey (advisor: Lee Cronk): Human behavioral ecology, cooperation, evolution of culture, and anthropology of childhood. agerkey@eden.rutgers.edu

Adam Heinrich (advisor: Carmel Schrire) Colonial (Dutch) archaeology, grave markers, colonial diet, taphonomy, South Africa

Purity W. Kiura (Advisor: John W. K. Harris) Thesis: An Actualistic and Stable Isotope Study on the Diet of Three Modern groups of People in Northern Kenya. pkiura@eden.rutgers.edu

C. David Kreger (advisor: Robert J Blumenschine) Plio-Pleistocene hominid subsistence strategies, European Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition, cognitive science, human thermoregulation, functional morphology. dkreger@modernhumanorigins.com

Christopher J. Lepre (advisor: Craig Feibel) Geoarchaeology, paleoclimate, early hominin evolution and paleoenvironmental change clepre@eden.rutgers.edu

Robert Lynch (advisor: Robert Trivers) Evolution of self-consciousness and the adaptive role of self-deception in humans. robertlynch66@yahoo.com

Jack McCoy (advisor: John. W.K. Harris) Lithic tool technology, pre-Oldowan subsistence, Africa.

Steven Merritt (advisor: John W.K. Harris/Robert Blumenschine) East African Plio-Pleistocene hominin carnivory, interpretation of hominin butchery behavior from bone modification trace fossils, contemporary butchery experiments as an analog of the past srm55@eden.rutgers.edu

Nancy Moinde-Fockler (advisor: Ryne Palombit) Effects of different land use systems on the socioecology of the baboon in Kenya, human wildlife conflicts and interactions. nmoinde@eden.rutgers.edu

Luca Morino (advisor: Ryne Palombit) Evolution and Maintenance of Social Systems, Monogamy, Polyandry, Sexual Selection, Communication, Primates, Gibbons. morino@rutgers.edu

Emmanuel K Ndiema (advisor: Jack Harris) Use of GIS in determining spatial distribution of resources and settlement patterns of hominids Pleistocene and Early Holocene, Kenya endiema@eden.rutgers.edu

Jackson Njau (advisor: Robert Blumenschine) Taphonomy and ecology of recent crocodilians, towards the reconstruction of hominid land use and its potential application for understanding the paleoecology of large meat eating fossil crocodylomorphs and theropod dinosaurs. njau@eden.rutgers.edu

Briana Pobinar (advisor: Robert Blumenschine) Elucidating the nature of hominid-carnivore interactions in the Plio-Pleistocene bpobiner@rci.rutgers.edu

Kari Alyssa Prassack (advisor: Robert Blumenschine) Avian taphonomy, ecology of saline lake ecosystems, hominid land use reconstruction, carnivore-hominid guild evolution, carnivore behavior, East Africa kalyssa@eden.rutgers.edu

Rhonda L. Quinn (advisor: Craig Feibel) Hominin paleoenvironments of Koobi Fora, Kenya; climatic influences of human evolution; stable isotope proxies of mammalian paleoecology rlquinn@eden.rutgers.edu

Sarah Schaefer (advisor: Deeter Steklis) Vocal commmunication in captive western lowland gorillas, particularly examining the functional significance of their "close calls",or within-group calls using playback experiments sschaefe@eden.rutgers.edu

Mark D. Shur (advisor: Ryne Palombit) Socio-endocrinology, friendships among olive baboons, non-invasive hormonal and behavioral studies, Kenya

Ron Smith (advisor: John W.K. Harris) Early Modern Humans (130k-agricultural revolution), Social Evolution and Emergence of Modern behavior, EuroAsia

Angela Van Roy (advisor: Ryne Palombit) Male mate choice and sexual swellings in olive baboons, evolution of human sexuality, Kenya

Helen Wasielewski (advisor: Lee Cronk) Evolution of cognition, social cognition, nonverbal communication, non-conscious perception.

Darine Zaatari (advisor: Lee Cronk): Cooperation, kinship, and descent group structures in Lebanon. dzaatari@eden.rutgers.edu
 

Domenic D'Amore (advisors: George McGhee & Kathy Scott): Evolutionary replacement of major tetrapod faunas in the Triassic [paleontology, geology, vertebrates]

Jean (Jeanmaire) Molina (advisor: Lena Struwe): Systematics of Leeaceae in Southeast Asia [botany, biogeography, molecular systematics, pollination biology] (e-mail: jeanx@eden.rutgers.edu)

Dana Price (advisor: Mike May): Evolution of dung beetles [entomology] (e-mail: dprice@eden.rutgers.edu)
 

Jesse Litman (Advisor: Karl Kjer): Phylogeny of Ephemeroptera [aquatic entomology, molecular systematics, rRNA alignment] (e-mail: jlitman@rci.rutgers.edu)

Jessica Ware (Advisor: Karl Kjer): Phylogeny of libelluloids [aquatic entomology, molecular systematics, rRNA alignment, Cordullinae] (e-mail: jware42@rci.rutgers.edu)

Xin Zhou (Advisor: Karl Kjer): Larval association and description of Chinese Hydropsychidae [aquatic entomology, molecular systematics, species description] (e-mail: zhxin@eden.rutgers.edu)
 

Michael Ferrari (Advisor: Jim Miller): Research interests: global climate and hydrologic modeling, biophysical remote sensing, bioclimatology, environmental metagenomics (email: aeroculus@gmail.com)

Jo Anne Crouch (advisor: Bradley Hillman): Population biology, evolution, and systematics of Colletotrichum isolates from grass hosts [population biology, taxonomy, molecular systematics, fungal molecular biology] (e-mail: jcrouch@eden.rutgers.edu )

Sasha Eisenman (advisor: Lena Struwe): Using phylogenetic data in biosprospecting of natural plant products [taxonomy, phylogeny, botany] (e-mail: eisenman@eden.rutgers.edu )

Bonnie Farrell (advisor: Jean-Marie Hartman; also working in Lena Struwe’s lab): Systematics of North American monkshoods (Aconitum, Ranunculaceae) [botany, endangered species] (e-mail: rishelba@eden.rutgers.edu )

Cynthia (Cindy) Frasier (advisor: Lena Struwe): Evolution of pantropical Strychnos (Loganiceae) [botany, biogeography, wood anatomy, molecular systematics] (e-mail: cfrasier@eden.rutgers.edu)

Katherine (Kate) Lepis (advisor: Lena Struwe): Systematics and biogeography of Chelonanthus (Gentianaceae) in Latin America [botany, biogeography, molecular systematics, morphometrics, GIS] (e-mail: katburke@rci.rutgers.edu )

Monica Torres (advisor: Jim White): [mycology, systematics] (e-mail: mstorres@eden.rutgers.edu)

Dana Uzwiak: species concepts and systematics of Euglena (e-mail: uzwiak@biology.rutgers.edu )