Dr. Bryer got her PhD at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. She then was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley, in cognitive science. After a postdoctoral position at the University of Michigan in evolution of cognition and behavior, Dr. Bryer started as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Anthropology in 2023.