Biography
Margaret started the PhD program in biological anthropology in 2017 working with Dr. Katharine Jack. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology from Tulane (2019) and Northern Illinois University (2016) and a B.A. in Anthropology from Saint Louis University (2014). She advanced to candidacy in Fall 2019. With a focus in primatology, her interests include studies of sexual selection and mate choice, inter-sexual interaction, and the evolution of primate social organization. She collected data for her dissertation in 2020, focusing on the role of non-breeding subordinate males in multimale social groups. As she is finishing her dissertation, Margaret is also the Breeding Colony Program Manager at the Tulane National Primate Research Center.