Dr. Kevin Hatala

Dr. Hatala completed a BS in Biological Anthropology & Anatomy at Duke University, followed by a PhD in Hominid Paleobiology at The George Washington University. He conducted postdoctoral research as a National Science Foundation Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and as a Junior Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Dr. Hatala has been a member of the Biology faculty at Chatham University since 2016.

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Marwa Rahim

B.S. Biology (Human Biology)

Lab research assistant, 2025-26

Lilian Kithinji

Research Scientist, National Museums of Kenya

Research fellow, Koobi Fora Field School 2025

Makoto Kobayashi

Ph.D. student, University of Chicago

Research student, Koobi Fora Field School 2025

Field school project: “Faunal footprints from Koobi Fora suggest similar animal communities associated with Paranthropus and Homo“

Elise Marrah

Undergraduate student, Bryn Mawr College

Research student, Koobi Fora Field School 2025

Field school project: “Reconstructing hominin locomotion, anatomy, and variation from fossil footprints in Koobi Fora Area 1A”

Lucas Tavares Naief

BS Biology (Cell & Molecular)

Independent Study, 2023

Hulme research fellow, Summer 2023

Capstone project: “Osteological signals of flexor pollicis longus morphology in great apes”

Ben Brown

BS Biochemistry

DEAL research fellow, 2022-23

DEAL research project: “Bringing the past to the future: experiencing fossil footprint sites through virtual reality”