Ph.D. Students & Post-Docs
Ph.D. Students
Jon Sefcek; co-advisor, Psychology (University of Arizona), 2007; Dissertation: Human intelligence and life history theory. dissertation website
Yann Klimentidis; co-advisor, Anthropology, 2008; Dissertation: Genetic admixture and ethnic ancestry among Hispanic and Native Americans in New Mexico. website
Gil Greengross, co-advisor, Anthropology, 2008; Dissertation: In search of Homo humorus: Personality, health, humor styles, and humor as a mental fitness indicator in stand-up comedians and the rest of us. dissertation website
Joshua Tybur; main advisor, 2009; Dissertation: Disgust dissected: An investigation of the validity of the three domain disgust scale. website
Ilanit Tal; main advisor, 2009; Dissertation: The role of major histocompatibility complex genes in human kin recognition and mate preferences. website
Laura Dane; main advisor 2009; Dissertation: An analysis of the sexual dimorphism of hands: Attractiveness, symmetry, and person perception. website
Ethan White; co-advisor, 2009. Dissertation: Verbal creativity, mate value, and sexual selection. website
Michael Church; co-advisor, Anthropology, 2012. A quantitative analysis of Renaissance Italian palaces as forms of conspicuous consumption. website
Helen Davis, co-advisor, Anthropology, 2014; Variable education exposure and cognitive task performance among the Tsimané forager-horticulturalists. dissertation website
Chris Jenkins, main advisor, 2014; Sensorimotor synchronization and individual differences in intelligence: A chromometric perspective on music evolution. website
Ruth Sarafin, main advisor, 2020; Manipulation of human sexual behavior by sexually transmitted organisms. website
Ryan Dobson, main advisor, 2023 - present. Projects on opposite-sex friendships, five ‘love languages’, alternative sexuality.
Post-Docs