Sofiya Shreyer is a biological anthropologist whose research examines women’s health and reproductive aging. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation integrated wearable sensor data, environmental...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
