Principal Investigator: Dr. Margaret Bryer
Email: mbryer@wisc.edu
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.
Graduate Student Researchers:
Sophia Mummert, PhD student Biological Anthropology: Sophia received her BA in Anthropology (biological concentration) from Temple University in Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in non-human primate behavioral ecology, focusing on nutrition and energetic trade-offs.
Undergraduate Student Researchers:
Isabelle Anderson (double major Wildlife Ecology, Anthropology): Project: contributions of invasive and indigenous plants to chacma baboon diet to inform Afrotemperate forest restoration in Nature’s Valley, South Africa
Elana Berghoff (major Nutritional Sciences): Project: review of L’Hoest’s monkey ecology and project on L’Hoest’s monkey plant foods at Kanyawara, Kibale National Park, Uganda
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Dr. Alexandra Kralick, Wittig Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Biology 2025-2027
Research Group Alumni:
Sam Brungardt Alvarez (UW ’25, Psychology, Gender & Women’s Studies)
Gabrielle Ralphe (UW ’25, Conservation Biology, Anthropology): Project: Grooming equitability in wild chacma baboons before and after a group fusion
Natalie Smith (UW ’25, Anthropology, Archeology certificate): Project: Review of intersection of primate nutrition and tool use
Research Group Collaborators:
Dr. Kris Sabbi, Harvard University
Dr. Hendri Coetzee, Nature’s Valley Trust, Nature’s Valley, South Africa
Dr. Jessica Rothman, Hunter College of the City University of New York
Dr. David Raubenheimer, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Michelle Brown, University of Minnesota