Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Ph.D. in Anthropology, Evolutionary Stream with graduate minor in Statistics – Washington State University, 2019
• M.A. in Anthropology, Evolutionary Stream – Washington State University, 2015
• B.A. with Highest Distinction in Anthropology & Psychology – University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2012

Professional Positions

• 2023 - Present: Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
  • University Mohammed VI Polytechnic; Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences; Rabat, Morocco.
• 2019 - 2023: Research Fellow
  • Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; Toulouse, France
• 2022: Instructor
  • Soochow University, School of Extension Education; Taipei, Taiwan.
• 2017 - 2018: Research Assistant
  • NSF BCS cross-funded grant, Testing multi-disciplinary theories of leadership using a cross-cultural database (#1628509), P.I. Edward Hagen.
• 2014: Research Assistant
  • NSF BCS Cultural Anthropology grant, Suicide in 245 Cultures (#1355469), P.I. Edward Hagen.
• 2012-2019 Teaching Assistant
  • Washington State University, Department of Anthropology

Funding

Select research awards indexed here.

• National Science Foundation – BCS Standard Grant: Human Network Data Science (#2214088), $447,116. Janurary 1st, 2023
  • Network Formation and Function Within and Between Cultural Groups, Co-PIs: Luke Glowacki, Zachary Garfield.
• The IAST Multidisciplinary Prize, 27,160€. May 29th, 2020.
  • Testing Evolutionary Alternative Models of Third-Party Punishment: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Co-applicants: Francesca De Petrillo, Zachary Garfield, Alberto Micheletti, Catherine Molho.
• National Science Foundation – Cultural Anthropology Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (#1823324), $23,220. May 7th, 2018
  • Testing evolutionary theories of leadership in a population of transitional foragers, PI: Edward Hagen.
• National Science Foundation – Standard Grant (#1628509), $91,619. September 1st, 2016
  • Testing multi-disciplinary theories of leadership using a cross-cultural database, Co-authored grant submitted by PI: Edward Hagen.
• WSU Vancouver College of Arts and Sciences Research Grant, $3,000. December 18th, 2014.
  • Prestige, dominance, and leadership among the Chabu hunter-gatherers of Ethiopia.
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln – UCARE Research Grant, $3,400. 2009-2011.
  • The Ecology of Prosocial Status Attainment in Egalitarian Societies, with Dr. Raymond Hames.