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.
Undergraduate Researchers:
Isabelle Anderson (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 (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
Research Group Alumni:
Sam Brungardt Alvarez (UW ’25, Psychology, Gender & Women’s Studies)
Gabrielle Ralphe (UW ’25, Conservation Biology, Anthropology)
Natalie Smith (UW ’25, Anthropology, Archeology certificate)