CHES Graduate Affiliate
- Jo Gansemer
- Advisor: Dr. Erin Vogel
- Focus Area: Non-Human Primates
- Email:
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I received my BS in Anthropology from the University of Iowa in 2017, graduating with Honors in the major. In 2022, I received my MS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with my thesis analyzing the relationship between stress and parity in South African vervet monkeys. Throughout my academic career, I have worked with primates in various settings both in the wild and in captivity, and have studied twelve different species across ten genera of New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes. I joined Rutgers anthropology as a PhD student in fall 2024.
- CURRENT PROJECTS:
At Rutgers, I am utilizing my previous experience with sample collection and physiological stress to research the relationships between gastrointestinal parasites, stress, and inflammation in Bornean orangutans at the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station. I am very interested in the multifaceted aspects of primate health and hope to use this research to better understand orangutan health and physiology, potentially in a way that may aid conservation efforts.
- RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Non-human primates, parasites, stress, ethnoprimatology, ecology and evolution, conservation