Course Title: Human Anatomy from the Evolutionary Prospective
Department: Anthropology

Email: nbarger@ucsd.edu

Education

C. Phil., Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, 2005

M. A., Anthropology, University of California, San Diego, 2003

B. A., Anthropology, B. A., Psychology (Honors) University of Chicago, 2001

 

Experience

Senior Teaching Assistant, Anthropology, UCSD, current.

Teaching Assistant, ANTH 2: Human Origins, UCSD. Current.

Lecturer, ANLD 2: Human Origins. UCSD Summer Session II, 2007.

Teaching Assistant, Dimensions of Culture 1-3. UCSD.  Fall 2003-Spring 2006.

Teaching Assistant, ANGN 142: Medical Anthropology, UCSD, Spring 2003

Teaching Assistant, ANBI 116: The Evolution of Primate Reproduction, UCSD, Winter 2003

Teaching Assistant, ANLD 1: Introduction to Culture, UCSD, Fall 2002

 

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

UCSD Regents Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2002

Department of Anthropology Teaching Assistant/ Research Fellowship 2002-2003

Departmental Travel Grant to attend Physical Anthropology Conference April 2004

Melford E. Spiro Dissertation Fellowship scheduled for 2006-2007

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

Semendeferi, K., Barger, N., & N. M. Schenker. (in press). Reorganization in the brains of humans and apes. Proceedings from the Holloway Symposium on Brain Evolution.

Barger, N., Semendeferi, K., & L. Stefanacci. (2007) A comparative analysis of the hominoid amygdala and basolateral division.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 134: 392-403.

Barger, N. L., Stefanacci, L., Schenker, N., & K. Semendeferi. (2004) Comparative morphometric analysis of the ape and human amygdala and its basolateral division.  Society for Neuroscience Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner.  2004.  Pgs: Abst #204.13

Barger, N., Stefanacci, L., Schenker, N., & K. Semendeferi. (2004) Comparative volumetric analysis of the hominoid amygdala.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (Suppl 38): 59-60

Barger, N., Atchison, H., & S. Keller. (2002) Enrichment effects rates of self-aggression and self-abuse in Golden-Bellied Mangabeys.  Presented at the 16th Meeting of the Southern California Research Forum, CSU, San Bernardino, November, 2002.  

Ross, S.K., Barger, N., Ganas, J., Lukas, K., Nichols, C., Megna, N., Stoinski, T., & D. Maestripieri.  (2001) Maternal scaffolding of offspring behavior in Western Lowland Gorillas.  American Journal of Primatology, 54(1): 31.

Morrison, K. D., Arendt, N. M., & N. Barger. (2002). Vegetation History of the San Pedro Valley: Pollen evidence for Anthropogenic Change. Presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO.