Laura McCarty

Current Position

Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati, Director of Paleoanthropology at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Education

2010

Present M.Sc. in Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati-Papatheodorou

2010

B.A. in Anthropology, University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL), Saint Louis, MO

Undergraduate Senior Thesis: Geographic Variation in Neanderthal Morphology
Advisor: Donna Hart, PhD.
Honors: Summa Cum Laude

2008

Associates in Science, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL

Research Interests

Human and nonhuman primate evolution
Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
Evolution of complex traits
Virtual Anthropology
3-D Geometric Morphometrics
Phylogenetics

Academic Positions

2010-2012	Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati, Director of Paleoanthropology at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
2009	Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri-Saint Louis, Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Publications

Rein TR, McCarty LA (2012) Joint orientation in anthropoid proximal manual phalanges: the interplay of function and phylogeny. The Anatomical Record 295:2057–2068.

Special Recognitions/Honors/Awards

2011-2012	Awarded a Fulbright Internship under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program
2010-2011	Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program
2010	UMSL Anthropology Department Senior Representative
2010-2009	Member, Dean's Undergraduate Student Committee for the College of Arts and Sciences UMSL
2010-2009	Vice President, Alpha of Missouri, UMSL, chapter of the Lambda Alpha National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology
2009	Present Member, Golden Key International Honour Society

Research and Field Work

2009	American Museum of Natural History, New York, Recorded craniometric measurements on Neanderthal crania for undergraduate senior thesis, November 2009
2009	Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, IL

Professional Presentations

2010 Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol

Poster presentation of my undergraduate thesis entitled "Geographic Variation in Neanderthal Morphology", May 2010

2010 Central States Anthropological Society CSAS Annual Conference

Poster presentation of my undergraduate thesis entitled "Geographic Variation in Neanderthal Morphology", May 2010

2010 StLAURS Poster presentation of my thesis entitled "Geographic Variation in Neanderthal Morphology", May 2010

Professional Membership

2009 - Present Member, Paleoanthropology Society

Last update: February 2013