The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Crickette Sanz, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. Sanz earned a doctorate from WUSTL, where she studied the behavioral ecology of chimpanzees in northern Republic of Congo. Since 2004, Sanz has been a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Her research interests include primate behavior and ecology, animal tool use, biological basis of human behavior, and great ape conservation. She is co-director of the Goualougo Triangle Ape Project; a research associate of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s International Program in Republic of Congo; and an active member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Primate Specialist Group on Great Apes.