Margaret Buehler Tulane University Department of Anthropology

Margaret Buehler

Graduate Student

Biography

Margaret is working towards a PhD in biological anthropology 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). 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 from Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, focusing on the role of non-breeding subordinate males in multimale social groups. Margaret also has a passion for care and welfare of captive primates and has held positions with the St. Louis Zoo and Tulane National Primate Research Center.