Lizzy is the Lab Manager for Harvard’s Anthropology Department, where she manages several lab spaces, including the Warinner Ancient BioMolecules Laboratory, the Anthropology Multiuser Laboratory, and the Microscope Laboratory. She supports faculty and students in their anthropological research, assists with student training, and works to ensure laboratory safety.
Lizzy’s research interests include human osteology, paleopathology, functional morphology, paleoanthropology, and forensic anthropology/archaeology. She received her MSc in Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution from the University of Tübingen, with support from Fulbright and DAAD (German Academic Exchange) scholarships. Her MSc research explored the relationship between osteoarthritis and habitual activity, employing both traditional and virtual bioarcheological methods alongside multivariate statistical analysis. Lizzy is also passionate about fieldwork, having excavated sites ranging from the European Middle Paleolithic to 20th century military locations.
Prior to her MSc, Lizzy was a molecular biology laboratory technician at the University of North Carolina McAllister Heart Institute. Lizzy completed her BSc at Duke University, where she studied sexual dimorphism in pelvic robusticity and pelvic stress fractures.