Department of Anthropology
114 Macbride Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242-1322
Phone: 319-335-0522
Fax: 319-335-0653
Email: anthropology at uiowa.edu
Background:
Hannah is a 3rd year biological anthropology student now beginning work on her Ph.D. She received her BS in Biological Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2004, and her MA in Anthropology from the University Of Iowa in 2006, focusing on the geology of Homo erectus find sites on Java. She is currently focusing on cranial vault thickness as a species indicator within the human evolution fossil record, focusing specifically on Homo erectus. She is also heading an effort to study the similarities and differences in ankle morphology of chimps, gorillas and humans, hoping to understand the tempo and mode of ankle evolution from a knuckle-walking ancestor to a human biped. She is also participating in joint Indonesian-American geological/paleoanthropological team studying the hominin fossil find sites of Java, Indonesia. Hannah has completed fieldwork in Wyoming with Dr. Phillip Gingerich in 2003, the Koobi Fora Field School in 2005, and geological surveys of Sangiran Dome, Ngandong, and Mojokerto, Java in 2006. Hannah is also president of the University Of Iowa Graduate Student Association, and a TA for Human Origins.