Graduate Research

Rob Schubert
Research Interests: Non-human primate behavior, morphology and evolutionary history; Japanese macaque functional morphology and positional behavior

Julia Giblin
My research interests are: biological anthropology, archeological chemistry, European prehistory. I am a first year MA student working with Dr. Yerkes.

Tracy Betsinger
Current research focuses on the biological effects of urbanization in medieval Poland.

Dan Temple
My major research interest is in reconstructing patterns of health and subsistence variation in prehistoric Japan using skeletal indicators of stress and disease. I am also interested in developmental biology and using patterns of dental and long bone growth to help explain patterns of life history in past humans. I am hoping to focus future projects on the microscopic assessment of linear enamel hypoplasia in prehistoric Japanese foragers, farmers, and medieval peasants.

Lesley Gregoricka
I am interested in determining diet and nutrition patterns through stable isotope analysis. Such evidence assists in ascertaining overall health status. Additionally, I utilize stable isotopes in my work with subadult remains to establish ages at weaning. With a focus on the Near East, my current research involves a Byzantine monastic collection from Jerusalem.

Samantha Blatt
Research interests: Skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, mortuary practices, and particularly disease and human skeletal taphonomy modifications (particularly burning modifications). My previous research has been centered in Eastern Europe and the Cook Islands. I really want to expand my interests to human skeletal development and morphology.

Michelle Field
My research focuses on the interaction between nonhuman primates and human populations (AKA ethnoprimatology). I'm currently collecting dissertation data on the effects of human cohabitation on the behavior and health of white-fronted capuchin monkeys in Misahualli, Ecuador.

Marin Pilloud
In Spring of 2005 I received my master's degree at OSU. My master's thesis was a bioarchaeological study of environmental impact on health in a prehistoric coastal California population. Currently, I am working at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. This site will serve as the focus of my dissertation research which will involve an analysis of the biological distance of the inhabitants of the site.