I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Young lab in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED), and in my last year of the Ph.D. program in Physical Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin.  

My general research interests include functional morphology, locomotion, ontogeny, and evolution. Much of my graduate work focuses on the primate axial skeleton. My dissertation research evaluates three changes in spinal anatomy that occurred during the course of ape evolution - tail loss, the adoption of upright posture, and adaptations to bipedal locomotion - using a variety of morphometric techniques. As a postdoc, I am assisting Dr. Jesse Young with his NSF project that examines how natural selection operates on growth and locomotor development in eastern cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus floridanus).  

For more information on these and other projects, please see my "Research" page.