Monica Avilez

Paleoanthropology, functional morphology, locomotion, primate and hominin evolution

BS CUNY, Anthropology, Biology

2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2018 MacCracken Fellowship, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
2017 NSF IRES Fellowship to Koobi Fora Field School, Kenya – GWU
2017 American Association of Physical Anthropologists – IDEAS Scholar
2017 Departmental Honors (John & Lucie Saunders Fund Award) – Lehman College
2016 NYC LSAMP Research Scholar
2016 Golden Key International Honour Society
2016 NSF REU to UNESCO World Heritage Site of Copan, Honduras – Lehman College
2016-2017 Presidential Scholar, Lehman College
2004 Dean’s List, City College
2000-2006 Federal Pell Grant
2000 New York State Scholarship for Academic Excellence

Bone preservation, specimen identifiability, and outcrop shape – a preliminary investigation of Early Pleistocene taphonomy at Koobi Fora, Kenya. Society for American Archaeology 2018 meeting.

Merritt, SR., Avilez, MV., & Reeves, JS. (Poster).

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