John D. Hawks

John Hawks is a professor professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also is the author of a widely read Paleoanthropology blog.

Biography

Hawks graduated from Kansas State University in 1994 with degrees in French, English, and Anthropology. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan where he studied under Milford Wolpoff. His doctoral thesis was titled, "The Evolution of Human Population Size: A Synthesis of Paleontological, Archaeological, and Genetic Data." After working as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah, he moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he is currently a member of the Anthropology department, teaching courses including Human Evolution, Biological Anthropology, Hominid Paleoecology.

References

John Hawks at the University of Wisconsin