Curriculum Vitae

Nancy L. Barrickman

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Education:

Areas of Experience: Dental, cranial, and skeletal growth in anthropoids: collecting dissertation data from immature specimens of the anthropoid skeletal specimens (August 2004 – present)
National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.
American Museum of Natural History in New York, NY
Anthropologisches Institut in Zürich
Dart Collection at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa
Stanley Field Museum in Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cranial growth in prosimians: longitudinal study of head and body growth in infant and juvenile prosimian species (December 2003 – present)
Duke University Primate Center
Archaeological virtual model: developing a GIS spatial database to store, retrieve, analyze, and display the data collected during excavation (May 2004 – present).
Plovers Lake, Middle Stone Age site in South Africa
Body mass and skeletal size in howling monkeys: determining the measurements of the skeleton that best predict body mass in howling monkeys from La Pacifica, Costa Rica; specimens collected by Dr. Ken Glander, who has studied the population in the wild and has known body mass and other life history variables for each individual. In collaboration with A. Hartstone-Rose and J.M.G. Perry. (October 2005 – present).

Major Grant Support
Duke University Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship, Fall 2001 – present.
Graduate Women in Science Eloise Gerry Grant, July 2005.
Field Museum in Chicago Visiting Scholarship from Women in Science, June 2005.
Duke University Aleane Webb Grant, March 2005.
Duke University Graduate School International Dissertation Research Grant, February, 2005.
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research. December, 2004.
American Museum of Natural History Collection Study Grant. August 2004.
Ruggles-Gates Fund for Biological Anthropology. July 2004.

Research Experience

Research Experience, 2002 data collected on postcranial remains of Australopithecus africanus at the University of Witwatersrand and the Transvaal Museum in South Africa: data collected on postcranial remains of Australopithecus africanus at the University of Witwatersrand and the Transvaal Museum in South Africa

Research Experience, 2001 documenting age, sex, and pathologies of specimens from the State Mental Hospital in Pueblo, Colorado, principal investigator Dr. Ann Magennis of Colorado State University: documenting age, sex, and pathologies of specimens from the State Mental Hospital in Pueblo, Colorado, principal investigator Dr. Ann Magennis of Colorado State University

Research Experience, 2000 data collected for Masters Thesis from great ape sample housed in Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., and Sudanese Nubian human skeletal sample housed at University of Colorado, Boulder: data collected for Masters Thesis from great ape sample housed in Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., and Sudanese Nubian human skeletal sample housed at University of Colorado, Boulder

Field Work

Field Work, Summers: 2002 - 2005
I work on excavations of Plovers Lake, a Middle Stone Age site in the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa. This research project is operated in conjunction with the Duke Paleoanthropology Field School in South Africa. My duties include supervising excavation, and assisting with lectures, grading, and lab activities.

Paleoanthropological field work, 2002 - present
Excavating the Middle Stone Age site of Plovers Lake in South Africa, principal investigator Dr. Steven Churchill of Duke University

Field Work, 1999 - 2000
excavated at Hudson-Meng bison bonebed in Nebraska, and performed actualistic experiment in bone taphonomy, principal investigator Dr. Larry Todd of Colorado State University

Last modified: 2007/10/15