People

Chris Kuzawa

ckuzawa@fas.harvard.edu

Principal Investigator

Chris Kuzawa (he/him) is a human biologist and biological anthropologist with training in cardiovascular epidemiology. His group’s research explores developmental influences on adult biology and health, the psychobiology of human fatherhood, non-genetic...

Emily Barron

PhD Student

As a 6th-year PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology at Northwestern University, I examine the intersection of early-life adversity, neurodevelopment, and evolutionary theory, using neuroimaging and behavioral methods to understand how ecological...

Christie Beckley

Undergraduate Researcher

Peyton Cleaver

PhD Student

Ca’la Connors

PhD Student

Intergenerational stress transmission; Black women; African diaspora; Stress biology; Health disparities; Biocultural embodiment; Developmental plasticity; Racialization; Inequality; Intrauterine environments; Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

Alicia Fahrner

PhD Student

Alicia Fahrner (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her dissertation examines how racism shapes health and well-being in Germany, where color-blind and post-racial discourses obscure the structural and...

Nora Koutoupes Guessous

Undergraduate Researcher

Alex Hernandez

Undergraduate Researcher

Leo Lee

Harvard Mind Brain Behavior (MBB) Postdoctoral Fellow

Leo (he/him) is a neuroscientist who received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he focused on utilizing functional neuroimaging to understand how the human brain performs complex movements such as playing a musical...

Silvio Ernesto Mirabal Torres

PhD Student

I am a doctoral candidate interested in how social and environmental conditions become biologically embedded across the life course and contribute to variation in health. My research spans questions of early-life environments, stress physiology, and the...

Allie Oh

Undergraduate Researcher

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Sasha Post

PhD Student

Sasha is interested in how stressful experiences span generations – specifically, how different types and timescales of stress interact with parental physiology to influence the health, development, and life history of both parents and their kids. Sasha’s...