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Monya Anderson is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University's Department of Anthropology, part of the College of Liberal Arts. She holds a PhD from the University of Oregon (2019) and specializes in biological anthropology with research interests in paleoprimatology, functional morphology, paleoecology, comparative anatomy, and Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecidae evolution. Her work focuses on fossil primate adaptation and niche separation in East African hominin sites.
Her current research includes NSF-funded projects on large-bodied fossil colobines in Ethiopia/Kenya (2015–present), biochronology of African hominin sites (2012–present), and Woranso-Mille fossil cercopithecids. Collaborators include Dr. Stephen Frost and Dr. Chris Gilbert, with grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and PSC-CUNY.
Anderson teaches courses such as ANTH 225/226 (biological anthropology), ANTH 312 (human evolution), and ANTH 425 (human osteology). Her research integrates morphometric analyses to explore primate dietary adaptations, locomotor behavior, and taxonomic classification.
Her publications emphasize postcranial functional morphology of fossil primates, particularly Paracolobus and Paradolichopithecus species, while recent work addresses captive vs. wild macaque cranial variation. She actively contributes to paleoanthropological fieldwork in Ethiopia and Kenya.
