Curriculum Vita

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Education:

2017 PhD, Biological Anthropology, New York University
2011 MS, Physical Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
2011 BA (summa cum laude), Physical Anthropology, minor in Biology, University of Pennsylvania

Current Appointments:

Present-2024 Associate Director, Laboratory of Morphology, CPRC
Present-2025 Academic Editor, PLOS ONE

Selected peer-reviewed publications:

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2024. Villamil CI, Negrón-Rodríguez JJ*, Middleton ER. Heritability in the Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) vertebral column. Special Issue Invited Article, “Cayo Santiago: New endeavors of non-human primate research.” Am J Primatol, e23686. doi: 10.1002/ajp.23686
2024. Villamil CI, Middleton ER. Conserved patterns and locomotor-related evolutionary constraints in the hominoid vertebral column. J Hum Evol 190: 103528. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103528
2022. Villamil CI, Santiago-Nazario A. Integration of the nasopharynx and cervical vertebrae in Homo and Pan. Anat Record 305(8): 1974-1990. doi: 10.1002/ar.24750
2021. Villamil CI. The role of developmental rate, body size, and positional behavior in the evolution of covariation and evolvability in the cranium of strepsirrhines and catarrhines. J Hum Evol 151:102941. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102941
2018. Villamil CI. Phenotypic integration of the cervical vertebrae in the Hominoidea (Primates). Evolution 72(3):490-517. doi: 10.1111/evo.13433

Selected research grants:

2022. Catalyzer Grant, Puerto Rico Science Technology and Research Trust. $69,991
2021. Cobb Professional Development Grant, American Association of Biological Anthropologists. $7075
2018. Grant for Scholarly Project. Dickinson College. $3000
2016. Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellowship. New York University. $6097
2015. Dissertation Fieldwork Grant. The Wenner-Gren Foundation. $16,094

Institutions where I’ve carried out research:

American Museum of Natural History; Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology; Museum of Comparative Zoology; Field Museum; Museum für Naturkunde; Senckenberg Museum; Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle; Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique; Royal Museum of Central Africa; Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Natural History Museum London; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Center for the Study of Human Origins; University of Witwatersrand; Makerere University; British Museum; Powell-Cotton Museum; Caribbean Primate Research Center; University of Notre Dame; Penn Museum; Philadelphia Zoo.