Faye McGechie
BS, Anthropology, Arizona State University
PhD, Integrative Anatomy, University of Missouri
Faye joined the Alemseged lab as a postdoc in the spring of 2021. She is interested in the functional morphology of the primate nuchal region. Her research integrates soft tissue mechanics, external bone shape, and trabecular architecture across extant primates to understand how the anatomy of the nuchal region is related to positional behaviors. Ultimately, she plans on using this framework to better reconstruct the behaviors of early hominins such as Australopithecus afarensis.
