I am a biological anthropologist with a 4-field background in Anthropology. I have a BA in Animal Behaviour from Bucknell University (2001), an MA in Anthropology from Iowa State University (2003) and received my PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2014. I have conducted fieldwork in Madagascar, Kenya, Senegal and since 2005, have studied chimpanzees in the Issa Valley, western Tanzania. In 2008, with Fiona Stewart, I initiated the Greater Mahale Ecosystem Research and Conservation Project (GMERC), where we study chimpanzee, red-tailed monkey and yellow baboon behaviour, ecology, and conservation. Our primary research interests lie in the adaptations to living in a dry, mosaic habitat and the implications for our reconstructions on hominid evolution. For more on this research and the project, please see www.gmerc.org.