CURRENT GRAD STUDENTS

Kendall Arslanian
PhD Student at Yale Department of Anthropology

Research interests: human behavior and cultural variation in evolutionary perspective, evolutionary medicine, reproductive endocrinology, the effect of nutritional transitions on gene by environment interaction.
kendall.arslanian [at] yale [dot] edu

María Sol Gennuso
Lic. María Sol Gennuso
PhD Student: Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE)
Estación Biológica Corrientes-MACN

My doctoral dissertation focused on the evolution of the juvenile period in non-humans primates, sex-typed strategies adopted by juveniles, and the costs and benefits encountered by both sexes during the period of development. In my research I aim to examine the period of juvenile transition into adulthood and its wider connection to the patterns of life history and their variation in Alouatta caraya. I analyze the development of the behavior in A. Caraya of both sexes during juvenile period and explore the relation between hormones such as testosterone and cortisol with the behavior of A. caraya males and females juveniles during their development.
solgennuso[at]hotmail[dot]com

Natalia Benitez
Licenciatura en Salud Pública, candidate

ALUMNI

Emily Vala-Haynes

Assistant professor, Western Oregon University

Ph.D., Graduate Group in Demography Program and in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, May 2014

valahaynese[at]wou[dot]edu

Elena Lagranja

Assistant Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Formosa

Ph.D., School of Nutrition, 2014
Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina

Elena’s doctoral dissertation was on the prevalence of risk of cardiovascular disease among the Toba/Qom of Formosa, Argentina

Sofía Olmedo

Licenciatura in Nutrition from Universidad de la Cuenca, Formosa. 2013

Sofía’s dissertation research focused on the dynamics of complementary feeding in Namqom, a peri-urban Qom village in Formosa [LINK]

Mariana Raño

PhD, Universidad de Buenos Aires, June 2016

Mariana’s doctoral dissertation focused on reproductive strategies in black and golden howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) females. The overall objective of her research is to explore the social, ecological, and physiological factors related with female mating strategies in Alouatta caraya and furthering our understanding of their role within the social organization of howler monkey groups. marianarano [at] gmail [dot] com

Marisa Galeano

Licenciatura en Nutricion, Universidad de la Cuenca del Plata, 2015

Marisa’s thesis focused on diet and nutrition during pregnancy in Qom adolescents

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS, past and present

Pablo A. Nuñez (present)
PhD, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Pablo is currently working on the epidemiological characterization of maternal and infant health and nutrition in Argentina and its sociodemographic correlates

Norberto Lanza

Norberto was my graduate student, postdoctoral fellow and colleague. His untimely death in August 2014 left us permanently sad. He graduated from the Universidad de Mar del Plata, as a biologist. His doctoral and postdoctoral studies focused on the biodemography of the Toba/Qompi of Western Formosa

Jennifer Wagner (past postdoctoral fellow)

Juris Doctorate, University of North Carolina, 2007.

PhD Anthropology, Penn State University, 2010