Ashley has moved to a new institution in 2025 and will not be taking additional trainees through the AMNH.

Current Group Members

Dr. Samar Syeda
Postdoctoral Fellow (Summer 2024-present)
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Alessandra Vecino Gazabón
PhD student in RGGS (Fall 2021-present)
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Ariel Barrera
PhD student through CUNY (Fall 2022-present)
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Nicholas Post
PhD student in RGGS (Fall 2022-present)
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​Recent Group Members

Dr. Deming Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)
​Deming has moved to Midwestern University!
Dr. Christopher Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2025)
Chris has moved to Fairfield University!
Dr. Marine Cazenave
Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2022-Winter 2023)
Marine has moved to Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology!
Dr. Kelsey Pugh
Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2020-2023)
Kelsey has moved to OCAD in Toronto!
​Dr. Carrie Mongle
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
​Carrie has moved to Stony Brook University!
Eva-Merce Fuentes
Research Assistant (Fall 2022-Spring 2024)
Eva left to Washington University for grad school!
Nina St. Hillaire
REU student (Summer 2021)
Nina was an AMNH Bio-REU intern, and is at Harvard for graduate school starting Fall 2023.
Lucrecia Aguilar
Helen Fellow (2019-2020)
Enrolled at Harvard University for graduate school in Fall 2020!