Perception . Art . Cooperation
The Forest
I am currently the D. Keith and Margaret B. Robinson Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science in Art at Case Western Reserve University. My position is in the Departments of Physics and Art History, and my PIs are Dr. Ken Singer and Dr. Michael Hinczewski. Along with an interdisciplinary team of collaborators, I am working on developing machine learning methods for attribution of paintings produced by Renaissance and early modern workshops, particularly works by El Greco.
I was previously a postdoctoral scholar with the Human Generosity Project currently at Rutgers University. I'm interested in the evolution of human perception and cooperation. I'm a primatologist by training, but since receiving my PhD. from Temple University in 2019, my work has focused on humans. At the University of Houston, I studied the evolution of information content in indigenous artworks with Dr. Alexander Stewart's Mathematical Biology Group. At Rutgers, I studied mutual aid as a strategy for coping with unpredictability in health and personal finance among communities in the contemporary United States. My PIs were Drs. Lee Cronk and Athena Aktipis.
My dissertation research focused on pelage sexual dichromatism (PelSD) in primates. My study was the first to quantify PelSD (difference in hair coloration between the sexes) across the primate order.
I'm Appalachian by birth (on my father's side), and grew up just over the mountain from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
The Trees
2019: PhD in Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA…
Appalachia
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