Former Graduate Students
Adam Baimel
Post-doctoral Researcher
Had you met me 10 years ago, I would have probably told you that all I wanted to do with my life was become a Rabbi. Despite these ambitions, I have opted to pursue my fascination with religions, religious thought and behaviours from within the frame work...
James Broesch
Director of Science and System Performance
My theoretical interests are in empirically examining predictions from cultural transmission theory to determine their validity explaining patterns of cultural transmission in the real-world. I am also interested in how cultural transmission theory might...
Tanya Broesch
Assistant Professor
Dr. Tanya Broesch was a graduate student in the Cognition and Development program in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. She graduated from St.F.X. University in 2001, was a CIPA funded Coady Intern for 2001-2002 in Kenya – at which time she...
Joey Cheng
Assistant Professor
My work focuses on the emotional underpinnings of status hierarchies. I believe that a set of human emotions - pride, humility, respect, and admiration - evolved under a larger psychology designed to facilitate cultural learning processes. While cultural...
Taylor Davis
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University My most long-standing general theoretical interest is in the implications of evolution for human thought and behavior. What began as an interest in the evolution of moral behavior has now transformed...
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
Graduate Student
Computer Science Graduate, Montreal, Quebec, Canada As a visiting master’s student, I worked on the phylogenetics of culture. I investigated whether cultural practices (such as religion, government, food preferences, etc.) can be properly studied using...
Brett Hathaway
PhD Student
During my undergraduate degree, I studied the social, cultural, and biological factors that influence cognitive abilities such as attention and emotional learning. After receiving a BA in Psychology, I became interested in the neurobiological mechanisms...
Rita McNamara
Lecturer
I came to UBC with a joint BA in Anthropology and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Between my time at Wash U and UBC, I spent a year as the lab manager for Karen Wynn's Infant Cognition Center at Yale University. In my work, I am...
Damian Murray
Assistant Professor
My primary research interests focus broadly upon how ecological variables influence cross-cultural differences and social behaviour. Disease, for example, has ubiquitously posed a threat to humans throughout their history. It's therefore worth considering...
Graham Noblit
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Peter Park
Postdoctoral Fellow
