CURRICULUM VITAE
Brenda R. Benefit
Dept. Sociology and Anthropology
MSC 3BV
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
phone: (505) 646-5940
fax: (505) 646-3725
e-mail: bbenefit@nmsu.edu
Professional Employment
2004-2005 Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico State University
Head, Department Sociology and Anthropology
2002-2004 Associate Professor of Anthropology, New Mexico State University
1995-2002 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University
2000-2001 College Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University
1990-1995 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University
1989-1990 Lecturer, San Francisco State University
1989-1990 Lecturer, Laney and Merrit Community Colleges, Oakland, CA
1982-2003 Research Affiliate in Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, National Museums of Kenya
Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, New York University (1987)
A.B. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University (1978)
Dissertation Title: The Molar Morphology, Natural History, and Phylogenetic Position of the Middle Miocene Monkey Victoriapithecus.
Grants (prior to 2005 primarily for the excavation and analysis of middle Miocene primates and
associated Fauna at Maboko Island, Kenya)
2005 National Science Foundation (with M. McCrossin and N. Boaz) ($40,000) for
“Paleoanthropological investigation of Miocene to Pliocene primate-bearing
deposits at Sahabi and Jabal Zaltan in Eastern Libya: Fossil collection, age
and environmental context.
This project is also a Core Project of the NSF funded researching Revealing
Hominid Origins Initiative (RHOI) directed by Drs. White and Howell of
the University of California, Berkeley, which provided $21,000 for the field
research.
2003 L.S.B Leakey Foundation ($6,000)
New Mexico State University, College of Arts and Science Minigrant ($2,000)
1995-2000 National Science Foundation (with M. McCrossin) ($211,000, including three
Research Experience for Undergraduate Awards).
1999 Summer Faculty Research Fellowship - Office of Research Development and Administration, Southern Illinois University ($4,000)
1992-1995 National Science Foundation ($230,000)
1990-1991 Summer Faculty Research Fellowship - Office of Research Development and Administration, Southern Illinois University ($3,333)
1991-1992 Special Project Research Grant - Office of Research Development and Administration, Southern Illinois University ($16,000)
1992 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant ($12,500)
1988-1989 National Geographic Society Research Grant ($15,000)
1988-1989 Fulbright Collaborative Research Grant, Kenya ($15,000)
1988-1989 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant ($5,000)
1988-1989 Boise Fund of Oxford University Research Grant ($500)
1987-1988 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Research Grant ($5,000)
1987-1988 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research ($7,000)
1982-1983 ITT International Fellowship - Kenya ($12,000)
Publications
1981 Wells, P.S., Benefit, B.R., Quillian, C.C and Stubbs, J.D. Excavations at Hascherkeller in
Bavaria: Field research into the economy of a Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Village. Journal of Field Archaeology 8:289-302.
1983 Benefit, B.R. The faunal remains. In Wells, P.S. (ed.) Rural Economy in the Early Iron
Age. Excavations at Hascherkeller, 1978-1981. American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 36, pp. 95-108.
1986 Benefit,B.R. and Pickford, M. Miocene fossil cercopithecoids from Kenya. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:441-464.
1989 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. New primate fossils from the middle Miocene of
Maboko Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 18:493-497.
1990 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Diet, species diversity and distribution of African
fossil baboons. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 71/72:77-93.
1991 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Ancestral facial morphology of Old World higher
primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 88:5267-5271.
1992 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Kenyapithecus from Maboko Island. In J.A.Van
Couvering (ed.): Apes or Ancestors? New York: American Museum of Natural History, pp. 11-12.
1992 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Comparative assessment of the ischial morphology of
Victoriapithecus macinnesi. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 87:
277-290.
1993 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Recently recovered Kenyapithecus mandible and its
implications for great ape and human origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 90:1962-1966.
1993 Benefit, B.R. The permanent dentition and phylogenetic position of Victoriapithecus from
Maboko Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 25:83-172.
1993 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. On the lacrimal fossa of Cercopithecoidea, with
special reference to cladistic analysis of Old World monkey relationships. Folia Primatologica 60:133-145.
1993 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. The facial anatomy of Victoriapithecus and its
relevance to the ancestral cranial morphology of Old World monkeys and apes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 92:329-370.
1994 Benefit, B.R. Phylogenetic, paleodemographic, and taphonomic implications of
Victoriapithecus deciduous teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 95:277-331.
1994 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Maboko Island and the evolutionary history of Old
World monkeys and apes. In R.S. Corruccini and R.L. Ciochon (eds.): Integrative Paths to the Past: Paleoanthropological Advances in Honor of F.C. Howell. New York: Prentice-Hall, pp. 95-122.
1995 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Miocene hominoids and hominid origins. Annual
Review of Anthropology 1995 24:237-256.
1995 Benefit, B.R. Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus. N.G. Jablonski (ed.)
International Journal of Primatology. 16:167-170.
1997 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Earliest known Old World monkey skull.
Nature 388:368-371. (and cover photograph)
1997 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. On the relationships and adaptations of
Kenyapithecus, a large-bodied hominoid from the middle Miocene of eastern Africa. In D.R. Begun, C.V. Ward and M.D. Rose (eds.): Miocene Hominoid Fossils: Functional and Phylogenetic Implications. New York: Plenum. pp. 241-267.
1998 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R., Gitau, S.N, Palmer, A. and Blue, K. 1998 Fossil
evidence for the origins of terrestriality among Old World monkeys and apes. In E. Strasser, J.G. Fleagle, H.M. McHenry and A.L. Rosenberger (eds.): Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances, pp. 353-396, New York: Plenum.
1999 Benefit, B.R. Victoriapithecus, the key to Old World monkey and catarrhine
origins. Evolutionary Anthropology 7 (5): 155-174. (and cover photograph)
1999 Benefit, B.R. Biogeography, dietary specialization and the diversification of
African Plio-Pleistocene monkeys. In T.G. Bromage and F. Schrenk (eds.): African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution, pp. 172-188. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2000 Benefit, B.R Old World monkey origins and diversification: an evolutionary
study of diet and dentition. In P.F. Whitehead and C.J. Jolly (eds): Old World Monkeys, 133-179. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
2000 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Middle Miocene Hominoid Origins (Equatorius is a
combination of Kenyapithecus and Nacholapithecus) Science vol. 287: 2375a.
2002 Benefit, B.R. Book Review: Body Mass in Cercopithecidae (Primates, Mammalia):
Estimation and Scaling in Extinct and Extant Taxa. Anthropological Papers 83. Eric Delson, Carl J. Terranova, William L. Jungers, Eric J. Sargis, Nina G. Jablonski and Paul C. Dechow. American Museum of Natural History. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 118: 406-409.
2002 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Old World monkeys: The Miocene emergence
In Hartwig, Walter ed. The Primate Fossil Record pp. 241-253. Cambridge
University Press.
2002 Rae, T., Koppe, T., Spoor, F., Benefit, B., and McCrossin, M. Ancestral loss of the
maxillary sinus in Old World monkeys and independent acquisition in Macaques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 117:293-296.
2002 Retallack, G.J., Wynn, J.G., Benefit, B.R. & McCrossin, M.L. Paleosols and
paleoenvironments of the middle Miocene, Maboko Formation, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42: 659-703.
2003 Benefit, B.R. Book Review: Primate Dentition: An Introduction to the Teeth of Non-
Human Primates By Daris R. Swindler (2002). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 296 pp. £55 (hardcover). ISBN 0 521 65289 8. Journal of Human Evolution 44: 393-394.
---- Benefit, B.R. The biostratigraphy and palaeontology of fossil cercopithecoids from eastern
Libya. In Salem, M.J. et al. eds. Geology of East Libya. Amsterdam: Elsevier. In press.
--- Blue, K., McCrossin, M. and Benefit, B. Terrestriality in a Middle Miocene Context:
Victoriapithecus from Maboko, Kenya In Ishida, H., Tuttle, R.H., Pickford, M.,
Nakatsukasa, M., and Ogihara, N. eds. Human Origins and Environmental
Backgrounds. New York: Kluwer Academic. In press.
--- Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L. and Miller, E.R. Mandibular morphology of
Victoriapithecus macinessi from the middle Miocene Maboko Formation, Kenya: Implications for its generic distinction from Prohylobates. Submitted to Journal of Human Evolution 8/15/05, MS #181.
Published Abstracts and Conference Presentations
1989 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. The facial morphology of Victoriapithecus. Presented
at the Annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Diego. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:191.
1989 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Ischium of Victoriapithecus. Presented at the Annual
meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Diego. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81:265-266.
1990 Benefit, B.R. Fossil evidence for the dietary evolution of Old World monkeys. Presented
at the Annual meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Miami. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81:193.
1991 Benefit, B.R. The taxonomic status of Maboko small apes. Presented at the Annual
Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Milwaukee.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 12:50-51.
1992 Benefit, B.R. The phylogeny and paleodemography of Victoriapithecus - new evidence
from the deciduous dentition. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Las Vegas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 14 (Suppl.):48
1992 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Systematic implications of cercopithecine lacrimal
fossa patterns. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Las Vegas. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 14 (Suppl.):119-120.
1992 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Maboko Island and the evolutionary history of Old
World monkeys and apes. Invited paper for "Integrative Pathways to the Past:
Paleoanthropological Papers in Honor of F. Clark Howell", symposium of the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 4, 1992. American Anthropological Association Abstracts of the 91st Annual Meeting:226.
1993 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Clues to the relationships and adaptations of
Kenyapithecus africanus from its mandibular and incisor morphology. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Toronto. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 16 (Suppl.):143.
1993 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. New Kenyapithecus postcrania and other primate
fossils from Maboko Island, Kenya. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Toronto. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 16 (Suppl.):55-56.
1994 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Comparative study of the dentition of Kenyapithecus
africanus and K. wickeri. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, Denver. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 18 (Suppl.):43.
1995 Benefit, B.R. Earliest Old World monkey skull. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 20 (Suppl.):64.
1995 Gitau, S.N. and Benefit, B.R. New evidence concerning the facial morphology of Simiolus
leakeyorum from Maboko Island. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 20 (Suppl.):99.
1995 Hynes T. and Benefit, B.R. Phylogenetic relationships of the long-snouted fossil
colobines. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 20 (Suppl.):115.
1996 Mihlbachler, M.C., McCrossin, M.L., Benefit, B.R. Body size distribution and the
evolution of African primate community structure. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Durham, North Carolina. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 22 (Suppl.):130.
1997 Benefit, B.R. Interpreting early hominid paleoenvironment based on the biogeography and
adaptations of African Plio-Pleistocene monkeys. Presented at the 1997 Paleoanthropology Society Meetings in St. Louis. Journal of Human Evolution.
1997 Benefit, B.R. and M.L. McCrossin 1997 New fossil evidence bearing on the relationships
of Nyanzapithecus and Oreopithecus. Presented at the the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in St. Louis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 24 (Suppl.):74.
1998 Benefit, B.R., Gitau, S.N., and McCrossin, M.L. A mandible of Mabokopithecus clarki
sheds new light on oreopithecid evolution. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake City, UT American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26 (Suppl):109.
1998 Gitau, S.N., Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L., and Roedl, T. Fossil primates and
associated fauna from 1997 excavations at the middle Miocene site of Maboko Island, Kenya. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake City, Utah American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26 (Suppl.): 87
1998 Palmer, A.K., Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L. and Gitau, S.N. Paleoecological
implications of dental microwear analysis for the middle Miocene primate fauna from Maboko Island, Kenya. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26 (Suppl.):175.
1998 McCrossin, M.L., Benefit, B.R., and Gitau, S.N. Functional and phylogenetic analysis of
the distal radius of Kenyapithecus, with comments on the origin of the African great ape and human clade. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 26 (Suppl.): 158-159.
1999 Benefit, B.R. Mandibular evidence bearing on the phylogenetic position of Victoriapithecus
and its relationship to Prohylobates. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus Ohio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28 (Suppl.): 90.
1999 Moore, W.D., Benefit, B.R., and McCrossin, M.L. Functional morphology of the cranio-
orbital regin in Theropithecus brumpti: Taxonomic and phylogenetic implications. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus Ohio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28 (Suppl.): 205.
1999 Palmer, A, Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L. Was Kenyapithcus africanus a sclerocarp
feeder? An exploration of the dietary adaptations of a middle Miocene hominoid through anterior dental microwear analysis. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus Ohio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28 (Suppl.): 217.
2000 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. New Perspectives on the taxonomy and
phylogeny of large-bodied hominoids from the middle Miocene of Kenya. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Antonio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 30 (Suppl.): 106.
2000 McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Locomotor diversity among large-bodied
hominoids from the middle Miocene of Africa. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Antonio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 30 (Suppl.): 224.
2000 Gitau, S.N., Benefit, B.R., Johnson, K.B. and McCrossin, M.L. New dental
remains of Kenyapithecus africanus from Maboko Island, Kenya support the congeneric status of Kenyapithecus wickeri and K. africanus. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Antonio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 30 (Suppl.): 159.
2000 Palmer, A.K., Benefit, B.R., McCrossin, M.L. Does dental microwear analysis confirm or
reject dietary predictions based on functional dental morphology? A comparative test case for fossil primates utilizing the middle Miocene primates from Maboko Island, Kenya. Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, San Antonio. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 30 (Suppl): 244.
2000 Johnson, K.B., McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Circular shapes do not an ape
make: Comments on interpretation of the inferred Morotopithecus scapula. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 30 (Suppl.): 189.
2001 Benefit, B.R. and M.L. McCrossin Craniodental comparisons of Mabokopithecus with
Oreopithecus support an African origin of Oreopithecidae. Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings, Kansas City. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 32 (Suppl.): 37-38.
2001 Palmer, A.K., Benefit, B.R., and McCrossin, M.L. Lessons from the study of microwear
variation within and between populations of middle Miocene primate species at Maboko Island. Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings, Kansas City. . American Journal of Physical Anthropology 32 (Suppl.): 116-117.
2001 Reitz, J.J. and Benefit, B.R. Dental microwear in Mesopithecus pentelici from the late
Miocene of Pikermi, Greece. Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings, Kansas City. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 32 (Suppl.): 125.
2001 Watt, C.K. and Benefit, B.R. Dental microwear in two species of fossil papions: Parapapio
ado from East Africa and Parapapio jonesi from South Africa. Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings, Kansas City. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 32 (Suppl.): 160.
2002 Benefit, B.R. and McCrossin, M.L. Canine sexual dimorphism in four middle Miocene
catarrhines from Maboko Island, Kenya. Presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings, Buffalo. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 34 (Suppl.): 43.
2003 Benefit, B.R. A comparison of Kenyapithecus and Simiolus from middle Miocene
deposits at Fort Ternan and Maboko Island. Presented at the 2003 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Tempe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 36 (Suppl.): 64.
2003 Blue, K., McCrossin, M.L. and Benefit, B.R. Terrestriality in a Middle Miocene context:
Victoriapithecus from Maboko, Kenya. Presented March 20 at the “Human Origins and Environmental Backgrounds” International Symposium, Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan.
2004 Benefit, B.R. and Lynch, E. The effects of time and habitat differences on the
dentition of Victoriapithecus macinnesi from middle Miocene deposits at Maboko. Presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Tampa, Florida. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 38 (Suppl.):62.
2004 Benefit, B.R. The biostratigraphy and paleontology of fossil cercopithecoids from eastern
Libya. Accepted for presentation at the Sedimentary Basins of Libya Third Symposium: Geology of East Libya, to be held in Binghazi, Libya Nov 20-28.
2005 Benefit, B.R., Lynch, E.M., Ghoshroy, S. and Kersey, S. Dietary adaptations of early
and middle Miocene dendropithecids and other small-bodied non-
cercopithecoid catarrhines from Kenya. Presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Milwaukee, WI. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 39: pp. 75-76.
2005 Benefit, B.R., Lynch, E.M., M.L. McCrossin, Ghoshroy, S. and Kersey, S. Preliminary
analysis of dental microwear and diet in kenyapithecine hominoids from the middle Miocene of Fort Ternan and Maboko Island, Kenya. Presented at the Paleoanthropology Society Meetings, Milwaukee, WI.
--- Miller, E.R. and Benefit, B.R. A Revision of the Victoriapithecidae. Submitted for
presentation at the 2006 meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and for publication in American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Professional Workshops and Symposia
1992 One of 15 international paleoanthropologists invited to participate in the "Apes or
Ancestors?" Workshop on Miocene hominoids, held March 28, 1992 at the American Museum of Natural History.
1995 McCrossin, M.L., Benefit, B.R., and Blue, K.T. Fossil evidence for the origins of
terrestriality among Old world monkeys and apes. Presented at the "Primate Locomotion - 1995" conference, University of California at Davis, March 27, 1995.
1995 Benefit, B.R. Biogeography, dietary specialization and the diversification of African
Plio-Pleistocene monkeys. Paper contributed to the Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research International Symposium no. 119, Salima, Malawi, October 25-November 2, 1995.
1999 “Evolution of Middle and Late Miocene Hominoids in Africa” (one of six invited foreign
speakers) international symposium Kyoto International Conference Hall, Takaragaike, Kyoto Japan, July 11-13, 1999, organized by Prof. Hidemi Ishida, Kyoto University.
Invited Public Lectures
1986 Northwestern University, Anthropology Dept.
1989 U. Texas Arlington, Anthropology Club.
Wright State University, Sociology Dept.
1990 Yale University, Anthropology Dept.
University of California Riverside, Anthropology Dept.
Southern Illinois University, Anthropology Dept.
San Francisco State University, Anthropology Dept.
Washington University, Anthropology Dept.
1991 Washington University, Anthropology Dept.
1993 Harvard University, "Women in Paleobiology" seminar series
1993 University of Chicago, Anthropology Department
1994 State University New York, Stony Brook - three seminars
Harvard-Koobi Fora Field School.
Northwestern University, Anatomy Dept.
1997 Boston University, Anthropology Dept.
1999 Washington University, Anthropology Dept.
2002 University of New Mexico, Department of Anthropology, "Reconstructing the diverse
Middle Miocene primate community at Maboko Island, Kenya" Fall 2002
Fieldwork
2005-present Paleoanthropological field work at Sahabi and Jabal Zaltan, Libya.
1987-1997 Directed eight paleoanthropological field seasons (totaling 16 months) of
excavation at the middle Miocene Maboko Formation, western Kenya.
1978-1981 Laboratory supervisor, faunal analyst and excavator at Hascherkeller, Landshut,
Germany.
1980 Paleontological survey and excavation at the Late Miocene Sahabi Formation,
Libya.
1978 Excavation at Hambledon Hill, England.
Museum Research
1979, 1984 American Museum of Natural History, New York
1982-83 National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi (total 48 months of study)
1987-89
1992-94
1996-97
2003
1983 Bayerische Staatssamlung fur Palaeontologie, Munich
Senkenbergische Museum, Frankfurt
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Dept. Anthropology, Zurich
1989 British Museum of Natural History, London
1989, 1991 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University,
1993, 1999
1991 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2000 Institut for Paleontologic Miguel Crusafont, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain
University of Florence Museum of Geology, Florence, Italy
Museum of Natural History, Basel Switzerland
Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor for the American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 2000-2004
Membership in Professional Associations:
American Anthropological Association
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Sigma Xi (membership selection committee at SIU)