EvoS Team

Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology
- Neandertals
- Language Evolution

Research Interests
- Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
- Evolution of ecological communities
- Human evolutionary biology

Barrett Brenton
Faculty Engagement Associate
Center for Civic Engagement
Steering Committee

Research Interests
- Biogeography
- Plant Ecology
- Environmental History
- Energy and Society
- Weed Ecology and Evolution
- Ethic Cultural Trajectories
- Agricultural Origins

Research Interests
- Creative nonfiction and poetry of place
- Science Communication/AI, Environmental Humanities/Animal Studies
- Gender and Sport Studies
- Trauma and Embodiment
Teaching Interests
- Creative Writing
- Health Humanities
- Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
- Sustainability
- Affective Neuroscience
- Embodiment
- Trauma

Robert A. Holahan
Faculty-in-Residence - DiRT; Associate Professor
Residential Life; Political Science
Research Interests
- Environmental Policy
- Political Science and Sustainability
Teaching Interests
- Introduction to Environmental Policy
- Environmental Policy Analysis
- Sustainability and Urban Policy
- Environmental Impact Statements
- American Public Policy
- Global Environmental Politics

Adam Laats
Professor
CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- History of American education
- Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
- Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
- History of creation/evolution debates
- Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
- Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history

Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs
Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolution of Past Human Populations
- Models of Cultural Transmission
- Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
- North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific
Teaching Interests
- Archaeological Laboratory Methods
- Archaeological Remote Sensing
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Humans and the Environment
- Eastern North American Prehistory

Research Interests
- Sexual Socialization
- Reproductive Health Attitudes
- Body Image Development
- Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making

Andreas D. Pape
Associate Professor; Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Economics; Graduate School
Research Interests
- Microeconomic Theory
- Game Theory
- Complex Systems

Research Interests
- Ecological speciation
- Adaptation to environmental change
- Coevolution
- Evolution and physiology of life history timing in insects

Hiroki Sayama
Executive Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies; Executive Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies; SUNY Distinguished Professor,School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science; School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests
- Complex systems
- Complex dynamical networks
- Human and social dynamics
- Artificial life/chemistry
- Interactive systems
- Complex systems education