In addition to ASU faculty, IHO incorporates an international network of research affiliates whose research perspectives, skills, and tools extend and reinforce IHO’s transdisciplinary mission in human origins research and student training.
Zeresenay Alemseged PhD, University of Chicago, Illinois
African early hominins, paleoecology
Ramon Arrowsmith, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
Earthquake geology, paleoseismology, geomorphology of fault zones
Geoffrey Clark PhD, Arizona State University
Archaeology, paleoanthropology, epistemology, hunter-gatherers; Spain, Jordan
Erella Hovers PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Plio-Pleistocene archaeology in East Africa
Panagiotis Karkanas PhD, American School for Classical Studies in Athens
Geoarchaeology
Jay Kelley PhD, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University (Courtesy Affiliate)
Evolution of great apes, Miocene hominoids
Zarin Machanda, Department of Anthropology, Tufts University
Social relationships among wild chimpanzees
Alex Piel, Department of Anthropology, University College London
Behavioral adaptations of chimpanzees
Yoel Rak PhD, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Early African hominins, Neandertals, functional anatomy
Carol Ward PhD, University of Missouri
Biological anthropology
Melissa Wilson PhD, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Computational evolutionary biology
Mathew Zefferman, Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
Mathematical models and ethnographic research to understand human culture, cooperation, and conflict