Schroeder Lab
ABout
Dr. Lauren Schroeder joined the University of Toronto in 2017 as an Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology. She holds a PhD in Palaeoanthropology from the University of Cape Town (2015). Her dissertation focused on the application of evolutionary quantitative genetics approaches to reconstruct the evolutionary processes underlying the variation in cranial and mandibular hominin fossil remains, specifically in the genus Homo. Following her PhD, she joined the Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Buffalo Human Evolutionary Morphology Lab. There, she worked on a number of projects deploying methods broadly linked to quantitative genetics, in order to assess variability in the cranial form of humans and non-human primates. Information about current projects can be found here.
Teaching
Undergraduate
ANT203 | Biological Anthropology: Primatology and Palaeoanthropology
ANT333 | Human Origins: The Genus Homo
ANT404 | Current Topics in Palaeoanthropology
ANT407 | Quantitative Methods in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology
Graduate
ANT1096 | Quantitative Methods I
ANT3049 | Advanced Seminar in Evolutionary Morphology
Teaching schedule for 2021-22
Fall 2021: None
Winter 2022: ANT203, ANT407
Refer to the UTM Academic Timetable for course descriptions and prerequisites
AFFiliations and service
HERI – Human Evolution Research Institute, University of Cape Town
ESI – Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
Co-editor of Media Reviews for American Journal of Physical Anthropology
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Editorial Board Member of Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews
Associate Editor for Young Anthropology – University of Toronto Mississauga's Undergraduate journal