Liam Zachary, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor
Heritage Hall, Athens Campus
Biomedical Sciences
Athens
Education:
- Anthropology and History (BA), University of California, Santa Cruz, 2013
- Archaeology (MS), Leiden University, 2015
- Biological Anthropology (PhD), University of Arkansas, 2023
Expertise:
- Biological Anthropology
- Functional Morphology
- Evolutionary Anatomy
- Primatology
- Paleontology
- Neotropical primates
- Primate Locomotion
Summary of Work: My research investigates form and function in the primate locomotor skeleton. I employ morphometric techniques to assess structure-function relationships in living Neotropical primates to develop an extant baseline for reconstructing the behavioral ecology of extinct primates from South America and the Caribbean.