Assistant Professor Chowdhury and Teklu Tesfaye, field manager of Filoha Hamadryas Project, in Ethiopia. Photo credit: A. Schier.
Shahrina Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
Shahrina Chowdhury specializes in primate behavioral ecology and socioendocrinology within biological anthropology. She combines behavioral, ecological, and demographic data from field observations with lab analysis of endocrine data to understand the physiological basis of behavior, with a focus on the effects of social, environmental, and anthropogenic stressors. The ultimate goal of her research is to determine the costs and benefits of behavioral flexibility in order to understand the adaptive value of sociality. She studies chacma baboons in South Africa, and hamadryas baboons in Ethiopia with the Filoha Hamadryas Project. In addition to being assistant professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College, she is doctoral faculty in the Anthropology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center and core faculty in the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology.
