Larissa Swedell

Larissa Swedell is a Professor in Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), and a member of the Anthropology, Biology, and Psychology Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town’s Department of Archaeology. Her interdisciplinary work bridges biological anthropology, primatology, and behavioral ecology, with a focus on nonhuman primates as models for understanding human social evolution.