BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Connor is a fourth-year graduate student focusing on the morphological variation of the skull in hominins, humans, and extant apes. Specifically, how cranial shape varies between sexes and during ontogenetic development in response to environmental stressors, social structure, and dietary preferences. Connor received his bachelor’s in Anthropology and Geology at Central Michigan University prior to persuing his PhD in Biological Anthropology at UW-Madison.
Connor has participated in cultural resource management in Michigan alongside the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, as well as paleoanthropological excavations in Malawi and South Africa. His archaeological fieldwork in Malawi focused on subsistence strategies of Middle and Early Stone Age hunter-gatherers, and in South Africa he has been working with the National Geographic Society Rising Star Project in subterranean survey of the Rising Star Cave System. Connor plans to pursue a career of teaching and leading a field site in Africa to investigate hominin origins and subsistence.