Curriculum Vitae
Carol Ward
Updated 8-27-12
Personal Data
Born: November 1, 1964, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Office Address
Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
M263 Medical Sciences Building
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65212
(573) 882-0858 office, 882-8909 lab
[email protected]
http://web.missouri.edu/~wardcv/
Education
1991
PhD
Functional Anatomy and Evolution,
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1986
BSc
Anthropology and Zoology, University of Michigan
Academic Positions
2011-present
Director of Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, Department
of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine
2007-present
Professor, University of Missouri, Department of Pathology
and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine
2006-2007
Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Department of Pathology
and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine
1998-2006
Associate Professor, joint appointment in Department of Anthropology,
College of Arts and Science, and Department of Pathology
and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine
1991-1998
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, joint appointment in
Dept. of Anthropology, College of Arts and Science, and Dept.
of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine
Positions at Other Institutions
1996-present
Research Affiliate, National Museums of Kenya
1990-2010
Research Associate, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
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Honors
2011
University of Missouri Corps of Discovery Lecture
2010-2012
Member at Large, Section H Steering Committee, American
Association for the Advancement of Science
2007
Member, Order of Socrates Teaching Society, MU School of Medicine
2006
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2005
MU Tribute to Women Award
2002-2003
Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
2002
MU Tribute to Women Award
2001
William T. Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence, $10,000
2001
Gold Chalk Award for Outstanding Graduate Advising
1995
Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award,
University of Missouri, Columbia, $1000
1993
Purple Chalk Teaching Award, College of Arts and Science,
University of Missouri, Columbia
1990
Ales Hrdlicka Award for outstanding student paper at annual meetings
of American Association of Physical Anthropology
Grants and Awards
2012-2015
National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: Renewed field
investigation of Australopithecus anamensis sites at Kanapoi, Kenya,”
$205,498
2012-2013
Wenner-Gren Foundation, “International collaborative research:
Renewed field investigation of Australopithecus anamensis sites at
Kanapoi, Kenya,” $34,905
2011-2012
University of Missouri Research Board, “Searching for the earliest
Australopithecus: renewed fieldwork at Kanapoi, Kenya,” $46,958
2010
University of Missouri Research Council, “Pilot expedition for
fieldwork at the earliest hominin fossil site of Kanapoi, Kenya,” $6,588
2009-2010
University of Missouri Research Board, “Novel method of femoral
intramedullary nail design,” $22,000 (G Della Rocca, B Crist, S ElGizawy, Y Murtha, J Arnone, co-PIs)
2009-2010
LSB Leakey Foundation, “Novel 3D analysis of Koobi Fora hominin
postcranial fossils,” $24,980 (JM Plavcan, co-PI)
2009-2010
Wenner-Gren Foundation, “Novel 3D analysis of Koobi Fora hominin
postcranial fossils,” $17,785 (JM Plavcan, co-PI)
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2008-2009
LSB Leakey Foundation, “The pelvis of Dryopithecus fontani: novel
3D analysis of an incomplete fossil,” $15,000 (JM Plavcan, co-PI)
2007-2010
National Science Foundation, “Torso morphology and evolution in
hominoids,” $199,476
2006-2007
ET@MO Academic Transformation Grant to revise Human Gross
Anatomy (PAS 2201), $5000
2005-2007
Wenner-Gren Foundation, “Canine root and crown proportions in
anthropoids,” $24,990 (JM Plavcan, co-PI)
2005
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Missouri, “Canine root
and crown proportions in anthropoids” $5000
2005
University of Missouri College of Engineering Research Initiation
Funds, “Biomechanics of the Spine,” $15,800 (DE Smith, co-PI)
2005
Research Council, University of Missouri, “Miocene Paleontologic
Fieldwork in Croatia,” $5,200
2004
DePuy Corporation, “Clinical significance of lumbosacral transitional
vertebrae,” $8,500 (J Parker, co-PI)
2003-2004
ET@MO Academic Transformation Grant to revise Introduction to
Biological Anthropology (Anthropology 150), $5000
2002
University of Missouri Research Council, “Finite Element Scaling
Analysis of Chondral Modeling Hypothesis,” $1200 (D Smith, co-PI)
2000
University of Missouri Research Council, Research Leave, travel funds
1998
University of Missouri Research Board, “Limb strength and locomotion
in the earliest hominids,” $16,472
1996-2000
National Science Foundation, "New postcranial fossils of
Australopithecus afarensis and A. anamensis," $50,181
1993-1995
University of Missouri Research Board, "Giant cercopithecids from the
African Plio-Pleistocene," $36,695
1992-1993
University of Missouri Research Council, $1080
1992
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Missouri
1991-1992
L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Grant, $4000
1991-1992
Research Council, College of Medicine, University of Missouri, $2000
1989-1990
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, $5043
1989-1990
Boise Fund Grant, $1068
1989-1990
L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Grant, $5000
1989
Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, $589
1986-1990
Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, full stipend
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Publications
In review. Hammond AS, Plavcan JM & CV Ward. Precision and accuracy of acetabular
size measuremes in fragmentary hominin pelves obtained using sphere-fitting
techniques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
In revision. Arnone JC, Della Rocca GJ, Crist BD, Ward CV & AS El-Gizawy. Variability
of human femoral geometry and its implications for femoral intramedullary nail
design. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma.
In revision. Arnone JC, El-Gizawy AS, Crist BD, Della Rocca GJ & CV Ward. Computeraided engineering approach for parametric investigation of locking plate systems.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Medical Devices.
2012 in press. Ward CV & AS Hammond. Australopithecus and kin. Nature Knowledge
Project. Nature Magazine, online.
2012 in press. Hammond AS & CV Ward. Australopithecus and Kenyanthropus. In: Begun
D. Blackwell Handbook of Paleoanthropology. New York: Wiley Blackwell.
2012 in press. Early hominin posture and locomotion. In: Sponheimer M, K Reed PS Ungar
& J Lee-Thorpe. Early Hominin Paleoecology. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
2012 in press. Ward CV. Posture and locomotion in Australopithecus. In: K Reed & JG
Fleagle, eds, Diversity in Early Hominids 3.6-2.5 Ma, Stony Brook Workshop in
Human Evolution. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series. New
York, Springer.
2012
Ward CV, WH Kimbel, DC Johanson & Y Rak. New postcranial fossils attributed
to Australopithecus afarensis from Hadar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution
63: 1-51.
2012
Manthi FK, JM Plavcan & CV Ward. New hominin fossils from Kanapoi, Kenya,
and the mosaic nature of canine evolution in hominins. South African Journal of
Science 108: 1-9
2011
Contributions to Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. BA Wood, ed.
2011
Ward CV, WH Kimbel & DC Johanson. Complete fourth metatarsal from Hadar,
Ethiopia, and arches in the foot of Australopithecus afarensis. Science 331: 750753.
2010
Arnone, JC, CV Ward, GJ Della Rocca, BD Crist, & AS El-Gizawy. Simulationbased Design of Orthopedic Trauma Implants. Proceedings of the ASME
International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov.12-18,
2010,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (in press).
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2010
Arnone, J.C., El-Gizawy, A.S., Crist, B.D., Della Rocca, G.J., Ward, C.V. An
Integrated Computer-aided Engineering Approach for Parametric Investigation of
Locked Plating Systems Design. Proceedings of the ASME International
Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nov. 12-18, 2010, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.
2010
Ward CV, Plavcan JM & FK Manthi. Anterior dental evolution in the
Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage. Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society of London B 365: 3333-3344.
2010
Hammond AS, Ning J, Ward CV & MJ Ravosa. Mammalian limb loading and
chondral modeling during ontogeny. Anatomical Record 293: 658-670.
2009
Plavcan JM, Ward CV & FL Paulus. Canine tooth crown size in Australopithecus
anamensis. Journal of Human Evolution. 57:2–10
2009
Ward CV, Mays S, Child S & B Latimer. Spondylolysis in an archeological and
modern population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131: 352-362
2009
Zehnder S, Ward CV, Crow AJ, Alander D & B Latimer. Spondylolysis in a
pediatric clinical population. Spine 34(3): 285-290.
2007
Jabonski NG, MG Leakey, CV Ward & M Antón. Systematic paleontology of the
large colobines. In: Jablonski NG & MG Leakey. Koobi Fora Monograph Series 5:
Cercopithecidae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 31-102.
2007
Ward CV. Postural and locomotor adaptations of nonhuman hominoids. In: Henke
W, R Rothe & I Tattersall, eds. Handbook of Palaeoanthropology Volume 2:
Primate Evolution and Human Origins. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
2007
Flinn MV, Quinlan RJ, Coe K & CV Ward. Evolution of the human family:
cooperative males, long social childhoods, smart mothers, and extended kin
networks. In: Salmon CA & TK Shackleford. Family Relationships: An
Evolutionary Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 16-38.
2007
Ward CV, B Latimer, J Parker, DH Alander, J Ronan, C Sanders & A Holden.
Radiographic assessment of lumbar facet distance spacing and spondylolysis. Spine
32:E85-88.
2007
Drapeau MSM & CV Ward. Forelimb segment length proportions in extant
hominoids and Australopithecus afarensis. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 132: 327-343.
2006
Organ JM & CV Ward. Contours of the lateral tibial condyle with implications for
Australopithecus. Journal of Human Evolution 51: 113-127.
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2006
Kimbel WH, CA Lockwood, CV Ward, MG Leakey, Y Rak & DC Johanson. Was
Australopithecus anamensis ancestral to A. afarensis? A case of anagenesis in the
hominin fossil record. Journal of Human Evolution 51: 134-152.
2005
Begun DR & CV Ward. Stem hominid or hominine? Science 308: 203.
2005
Drapeau MSM, CV Ward, WH Kimbel, DC Johanson & Y. Rak. Associated
cranial and forelimb remains of Australopithecus afarensis. Journal of Human
Evolution 48: 593-642.
2005
Flinn MV, D Geary & CV Ward. Ecological dominance, social competition, and
coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence.
Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 10-46.
2005
Ward CV & B Latimer. Human evolution and the development of spondylolysis.
Spine. 30(15): 1808-1814.
2005
Flinn MV, CV Ward & R Noone. Hormones and the human family. In: DR Buss,
ed. Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Wiley, pp. 552-583.
2005
Flinn MV & CV Ward. Ontogeny and evolution of the social child. In: BJ Ellis &
DF Bjorklund, eds. Origins of the Social Mind. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 1944.
2004
Nakatsukasa M, CV Ward, A Walker, MF Teaford, Y Kunimatsu & N Ogihara.
Tail loss in Proconsul heseloni. Journal of Human Evolution 46: 777-784.
2004
Ward CV, MV Flinn & DR Begun. Body size and intelligence in hominoid
evolution. In: The Evolution of Thought. AE Russon & DR Begun, eds.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 335-349.
2003
Ward CV. The evolution of human origins. American Anthropologist 105(1): 7788.
2003
Ward CV. Interpreting the posture and locomotion of Australopithecus afarensis:
where do we stand? Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 45:185-215.
2002
Leakey MG, CV Ward, & MF Teaford. Cercopithecidae. in: Lothagam: the Dawn
of Humanity in Eastern Africa. J. Harris & M. Leakey, eds. Columbia University
Press, New York. pp. 201-248.
2001
Ward CV, MG Leakey & A Walker. Morphology of Australopithecus anamensis
from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 41: 255-368.
1999
Ward CV, MG Leakey & A Walker. The new hominid species Australopithecus
anamensis. Evolutionary Anthropology 7: 197-205.
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1999
Ward CV, MG Leakey, B Brown, F Brown, J Harris & A Walker. South Turkwel:
A new Pliocene hominid site in Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 36: 69-96.
1998
Altmeier WA III & CV Ward. A pediatrician’s view: Why do we have paranasal
sinuses? Pediatric Annals 27: 784-785.
1998
Leakey MG, C Feibel, I McDougall, CV Ward & A Walker. New specimens and
confirmation of an early age for Australopithecus anamensis. Nature 393: 62-66.
1998
Ward CV. Afropithecus, Proconsul and the early hominoid postcranium. in:
Primate Locomotion: Recent Advances, E. Strasser, J. Fleagle, A. Rosenberger, &
H. M. McHenry, eds. Plenum Press, New York. pp. 337-352.
1998
Ward CV. Primate evolution – in and out of Africa. Comment. Current Biology
8(21): R746.
1997
Begun DR, CV Ward & MD Rose (eds). Function, Phylogeny and Fossils:
Miocene Hominoids and Great Ape and Human Origins. New York: Plenum Press,
Advances in Primatology Series.
1997
Begun DR, CV Ward & MD Rose. Events in hominoid evolution. In: Begun DR,
CV Ward & MD Rose (eds). Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene
Hominoids and Great Ape and Human Origins. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 389415.
1997
Ward CV Hominoid trunk and hindlimb evolution. in: Begun, D., CV Ward & M.
D. Rose (eds). Function, Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoids and Great
Ape and Human Origins. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 101-130.
1997
Ward CV, DR Begun & MD Rose. Introduction: Function and phylogeny in
Miocene hominoids. in: Begun DR, CV Ward & MD Rose (eds). Function,
Phylogeny and Fossils: Miocene Hominoids and Great Ape and Human Origins.
New York: Plenum Press, pp. 1-11.
1995
Ward CV, Ruff CB, A Walker, MF Teaford, MD Rose & IO Nengo. Functional
morphology of Proconsul patellas from Rusinga Island, Kenya, with implications
for other Miocene-Pliocene catarrhines. Journal of Human Evolution 29: 1-20.
1993
Ward CV. Torso morphology and locomotion in Proconsul nyanzae. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 92: 291-328.
1993
Ward CV, A Walker, MF Teaford & I Odhiambo. A partial skeleton of Proconsul
nyanzae (KNM-MW 13142) from Mfangano Island, Kenya. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 90: 77-111.
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1993
Latimer B & CV Ward. The thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. in: The Nariokotome
Homo erectus skeleton. A. Walker (ed.). Harvard University Press, Cambridge. pp
299-293.
1993
Walker A, B Brown, CV Ward & RE Leakey. A new Australopithecus boisei
calvaria from East Turkana, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
91: 137-159.
1991
Ward CV, A Walker & MF Teaford. Proconsul did not have a tail. Journal of
Human Evolution 21(3): 215-220.
1991
Ward CV. The Functional Anatomy of the Lower Back and Pelvis of the Miocene
Hominoid Proconsul nyanzae from Mfangano Island, Kenya. Ph. D. dissertation.
The Johns Hopkins University.
1989
Walker A, CV Ward, REF Leakey & HM Grausz. Evolution in the
Australopithecus boisei lineage. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress
of Paleoanthropology. G. Giacobini (ed). Jaca Books, Milan.
1989
Leakey RE, A Walker, CV Ward, & HM Grausz. A partial skeleton of a gracile
hominid from the Upper Burgi member of the Koobi Fora Formation, East
Turkana, Kenya. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress of
Paleoanthropology. G. Giacobini (ed). Jaca Books, Milan.
1988
Grausz HM, RE Leakey, A Walker & CV Ward. Associated cranial and postcranial bones of Australopithecus boisei. In: Evolutionary History of the Robust
Australopithecines. F. E. Grine (ed). pp. 127-132. Aldine, Chicago.
Abstracts
2012
Plavcan JM, D Provaznik, AS Hammond & CV Ward. Estimating femoral head
size in fragmentary fossils using 3D surface scans. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology.
2012
Hammond, AS, JM Plavcan & CV Ward. Precision and accuracy of acetabular size
measures in fragmentary Plio-Pleistocene hominin pelves obtained using digital
sphere-fitting techniques. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2011
Ward, CV, JM Plavcan, AS Hammond, LA Leakey, F Spoor & MG Leakey. A new
hominin pelvis and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology.
2011
Congdon K, CV Ward, WH Kimbel & DC Johanson. The first complete fourth
metatarsal of Australopithecus afarensis from Hadar, Ethiopia. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology.
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2011
Hammond AS, JM Plavcan & CV Ward. Hindlimb morphology and hip postures in
catarrhine primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2011
Rosenman, BA & CV Ward. Costo-vertebral morphology, thoracic vertebral
number and last rib length in Australopithecus africanus. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology.
2010
Ward CV, AS Hammond, JM Plavcan, DR Begun & L Kordos. Hip joint
morphology and hominoid evolution: from quadrupedal to suspensory to bipedal
locomotion. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
2010
Hammond AS, N Koscielniak, JM Plavcan & CV Ward. 3D analysis of primate
hindlimb joints: reconstructing positional abilities in extinct primates. Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology.
2010
Arnone JS, G Della Rocca , B Crist, Y Murtha, CV Ward & S El-Gizawy. Novel
method of femoral intramedullary design. Orthopaedic Trauma Association.
2010
Hammond AS, CV Ward & JM Plavcan. Novel 3D analysis of the proximal femur
and hip joint function in anthropoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Suppl. 50: 121-122.
2009
Ward CV, JM Plavcan, DR Begun & L Kordos. Pelvic form and hip joint function
in anthropoids with implications for Rudapithecus: 3D analysis of continuous
surface data. Paleoanthropology Society.
2009
Ward CV. Three dimensional anatomy of the anthropoid bony pelvis. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl 48: 266.
2009
Plavcan JM, Ward CV & FK Manthi. New hominin fossils from Kanapoi, Kenya,
and the mosaic evolution of canine reduction in early hominins. Paleoanthropology
Society.
2008
Ward CV & FK Manthi. New fossils of A. anamensis from Kanapoi, Kenya, and
evolution in the A. anamensis-afarensis lineage. Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology.
2008
Zehnder SW, CV Ward, A Crow, B Latimer & DH Alander. Radiographic
assessment of lumbar facet distance spacing and pediatric spondylolysis.
Orthopaedic Research Society.
2008
Pfeiffer FM, DL Abernathie & CV Ward. A novel method for visualizing dynamic
motion of the spine using clinical CT scanning and flexion-extension radiographs.
Orthopaedic Research Society.
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2008
Pfeiffer FM, DL Abernathie, CV Ward, DE Smith & DH Alander. Variation in the
mechanical response of the lumbar vertebrae of ten subjects as predicted by a
validated patient specific finite element model. Orthopaedic Research Society.
2008
Ward CV, D Begun & L Kordos. A new partial pelvis of Dryopithecus brancoi
from Rudabanya, Hungary. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 46:
218.
2007
Ward CV. Pygmy arboreal bipeds and the evolution of hominin locomotion.
American Anthropologist (invited).
2007
Pfeiffer, FM, CV Ward, DL Abernathie, DE Smith & DH Alander. Patient specific
finite element modeling of lumbar vertebrae. American Society of Biomechanics.
2007
Pfeiffer FM, CV Ward & DL Abernathie. Dynamic imaging of the lumbar spine.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
2007
Ward CV, JM Plavcan & FL Paulus. Canine tooth crown, root and facial
dimorphism in anthropoid primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Suppl. 44: 243.
2007
Paulus FL, CV Ward & JM Plavcan. Canine tooth crown and root proportions in
African hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 44: 185.
2006
Barker KB & CV Ward. Functional morphology of the hominoid clavicle.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 42: 61.
2006
Begun DR, Deane A, Kivell TL, Nargolwalla MC & ND Taylor. Stem hominid or
hominine? The phylogeny and functional anatomy of Pierolapithecus catalaunicus.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 42: 63.
2005
Pfeiffer FM, DE Smith, CV Ward & DH Alander. A patient-specific approach to
finite element modeling of lumbar vertebrae. American Society of Mechanical
Engineers.
2005
Ward CV, B Latimer, DH Alander, JA Parker, J Ronan & C Sanders. Human
posture and development of spondylolysis. International Society for the Study of
the Lumbar Spine.
2005
Ward CV & B Latimer. Hominin lumbar lordosis and upright posture. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 40: 218.
2005
Cunningham DL, T Cole III, WL Jungers, CV Ward & D Wescott. Patterns of
postcranial and body mass dimorphism in hominoids. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl. 40: 90.
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2005
Nalley TK, M Streeter & CV Ward. Comparison of bone type and proportions n
exercised and sedentary swine. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl.
40: 155.
2005
Ward CV, B Latimer, DH Alander, JA Parker, J Ronan & C Sanders. Human
posture and development of spondylolysis. Orthopedic Research Society.
2004
Cunningham DL, T Cole III, CV Ward & D Wescott. Non-parametric kernel
density estimation of postcranial sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus afarensis
from Hadar, Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2004
Holden AD, CV Ward & B Latimer. Interfacet distances and prevalence of
spondylolisthesis in a clinical population. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology.
2004
Plochocki JH, CV Ward & DE Smith. Finite element modeling of knee joint
growth and test of the chondral modeling theory. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology.
2004
Ward CV & JM Plavcan. Canine sexual dimorphism in Australopithecus
anamensis and A. afarensis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
2003
Holden AD & CV Ward. The effects of epiphyseal shape on metacarpal diaphyseal
proportions in hominoids: implications for long bone growth. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology Suppl. 36:116.
2003
Nalley TK & CV Ward. The effects of epiphyseal shape on femoral diaphyseal
proportions in hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl.
36:156-157.
2003
Ward CV, WH Kimbel, C Lockwood, MG Leakey, Y Rak & DC Johanson. Was
Australopithecus anamensis ancestral to A. afarensis? American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl. 36:219-220.
2003
Ward CV, MS Drapeau & CB Ruff. Articular and diaphyseal proportions in
Australopithecus afarensis. Journal of Human Evolution.
2001
Organ JM & CV Ward. Three-dimensional analysis of the lateral tibial condyle in
gracile australopithecines. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 32:
115.
2001
Ting N & CV Ward. Functional analysis of the hip and thigh of Paracolobus and
other large-bodied fossil cercopithecids. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl. 32: 150
2001
Ward CV & M. V. Flinn. How human intelligence evolved. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology Suppl. 32: 159.
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1999
Ward CV Still no evidence for a tail in Proconsul heseloni. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology Suppl. 28: 273.
1998
Ward CV, MS Drapeau, WH. Kimbel & DC Johanson. New postcranial fossils of
Australopithecus afarensis from Hadar, Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl. 26: 225-226.
1997
Leakey MG & CV Ward. Morphology of the Australopithecus anamensis first
deciduous molar and capitate. Journal of Human Evolution 32(4): A10-A11.
1997
Niewohner W, E Trinkaus, & CV Ward. Pliocene and Pleistocene hominid hamulus
size and robusticity. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 24.
1997
Ward CV, A Walker, & MG Leakey. New fossils of Australopithecus anamensis
from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Suppl. 24.
1995
Duren, D., & CV Ward. Femoral physeal plate angles and their relation to
bipedality. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 20: 86.
1995
Leakey MG, & CV Ward. New skeletons of large-bodied Plio-Pleistocene colobines
from northern Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 20
(mistakenly omitted from print).
1995
Ward CV, A Walker, MG Leakey & B Brown. New hominid hand bones from
northern Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 20: 218.
1994
Ward CV. Locomotor and obstetric constraints in the evolution of the hominoid
pelvis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 18.
1993
Ward CV. Function and phylogeny in Miocene trunk and hindlimb evolution.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl. 16: 204.
1992
Ward CV. Hip joints of Proconsul nyanzae and P. africanus. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology Suppl. 14: 171.
1992
Brown B, A Walker & CV Ward. A new Australopithecus boisei calvaria from the
Early Pleistocene of Lake Turkana, Kenya. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl. 14: 54-55.
1991
Ward CV & B Latimer. The vertebral column of Australopithecus. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl.: 12: 180.
1990
Ward CV. The lumbar region of the Miocene hominoid Proconsul nyanzae.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2): 314.
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1989
Ward CV, A Walker, MF Teaford & I Odhiambo. Proconsul nyanzae innominate
from the early Miocene of Mfangano Island, Kenya. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 78(2): 319-320.
Popular Press
1998, 2004 Ward CV. Big mystery: What made us stand tall? MSNBC Interactive
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3076710. (invited contribution)
Book Reviews
2007
Ward CV. Review of The Evolution of Human Diets: The Known, the Unknown,
and the Unknowable. P. Ungar. Journal of Human Evolution.
2007
Ward CV. Review of The First Hominid. A. Gibbons. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology.
2005
Ward CV. Review of Hominid Adaptations and Extinctions. D. Cameron. Journal
of Human Evolution 49(6): 777-779.
1995
Ward CV. Review of Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus. N.
Jablonksi, editor. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96(3): 325-327.
1994
Ward CV. Review of Hands, 2nd ed. J Napier, revised by RH Tuttle. American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 94: 137-139.
1993
Ward, CV. Review of Origine(s) de la Bipédie Chez les Hominidés. Y. Coppens
and B. Senut, editors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 90: 387-388.
Books in Preparation
Ward CV, ed. The Koobi Fora Hominids: Postcranial Remains. Book under contract with
Oxford University Press.
Richmond BG, CV Ward & B Zipfel (editors). Hominin Postcranial Fossils from
Sterkfontein, South Africa. Book under contract with Oxford University Press.
Arnone, JC, CV Ward, GJ Della Rocca, BD Crist, & AS El-Gizawy. Simulation-Based
Design of Orthopedic Trauma Implants. Invited, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers Press.
Manuscripts In Preparation
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Rosenman B, CV Ward & CO Lovejoy. Australopithecus africanus had a minimum of six
lumbar vertebrae. (to be submitted to PLoS One).
Manthi FK, JM Plavcan & CV Ward. New fossils of Australopithecus anamensis from
Kanapoi, Kenya (to be submitted to Journal of Human Evolution)
Ward CV, DR Begun & L Kordos. New pelvic remains of Rudapithecus hungaricus from
Rudabanya, Hungary (to be submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, if not Science).
Ward CV, CO Lovejoy and B Latimer. A new reconstruction of the Australopithecus
afarensis torso.
Other Research in Progress
Torso morphology and evolution in hominoids
New Koobi Fora hominin postcranial fossils, and analysis of size and shape in all fossils from
the sample (with JM Plavcan, F Kirera, M Leakey, F Spoor)
Earliest known associated pelvis and femur of early Homo (1.8 Ma) from Koobi Fora Kenya
(with M Leakey, L Leakey, F Spoor, JM Plavcan)
Sexual dimorphism in canine tooth crown and root proportions and facial morphology in
anthropoids (with JM Plavcan)
Effect of exercise on articular and diaphyseal morphology in mice and swine (with A
Hammond, B Grosdidier, J Plochocki, C Phillips, J Organ, M Drapeau, M Streeter, T
Nalley, K Barker)
Description and analysis of large-bodied Plio-Pleistocene colobines from Kenya (with A
Hammond, N Ting, S Frost & M Leakey)
Invited Presentations
2012
University of Missouri Libraries Faculty Lecture Series
2011
Salk Institute & University of California, San Diego (CARTA)
2011
University of Missouri Corps of Discovery Lecture
2011
University of Chicago
2011
Duke University
2011
Evoblitz, Interdisciplinary Evolution Group, University of Missouri
2010
Johns Hopkins University
2010
Saturday Morning Science, University of Missouri
2009
Royal Society of London
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2009
American International University, Nairobi, Kenya
2009
Clinical and Translational Sciences Seminar Series, Dept. of Pathology, MU
2009
Turkana Basin Institute, Kenya
2009
Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, Institute of Human Origins
2009
University of Montreal
2009
American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting
2009
Paleoanthropology Society, symposium
2008
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, symposium
2008
University of Missouri Ecology and Evolution Series
2007
Columbia Public Library
2007
American Anthropological Association, symposium
2007
Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University
2007
Salk Institute
2007
Stanford University
2006
Missouri Academy of Sciences keynote address, Kirksville
2006
African Genesis Symposium, Johannesburg, South Africa
2006
Primate Evolution Catalysis Conference, NESCENT, Durham NC
2006
Boise State University
2005
Ohio State University
2005
Queens College, Fostering Women’s Success in Science Conference
2005
Florida State University
2004
University of Texas-Arlington
2004
Washington University
2004
University of Tennessee-Martin
2004
University of Wisconsin
2004
University of Oregon
2004
University of Southern California
2003
University of New Mexico
2003
Central Missouri State University
2003
Ursinus College
2003
University of Texas, Corpus Christi
2003
University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley
2003
Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
2003
Fairfield University, Fairfield Connecticut
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2003
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore
2002
City University of New York
2002
Southern California Primate Research Symposium, San Bernadino, CA
2002
University of Hawaii, Manoa
2002
University of Hawaii, Hilo
2002
Duke University
2002
University of Kansas
2001
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
2001
100 Years of Biological Anthropology Symposium, American Association of
Anthropologists annual meetings
2000
University of Arkansas
1999
Department of Geological Sciences, MU
1999
University of Pisa, Italy
1999
University of Barcelona, Spain
1998
3 invited presentations, International Dual Congress of Human Biology and
Paleontology, South Africa
1998
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1998
University of Toronto
1997
Division of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, MU
1996
Division of Biological Sciences, MU
1995
Primate Locomotion Conference, Davis, CA
1994
Department of Physiology, University of Missouri
1994
Annual Meetings of the American Assoc. of Physical Anthropologists
1994
University of Kansas
1994
Department of Pathology, University of Missouri
1993
Washington University
1990
Southwest Anthropology Association annual meetings symposium
1990
American Association of Anthropologists annual meetings symposium
Significant Professional Service – Off Campus
2011-2012
Associate Editor, Public Library of Science (PLoS) One
2009-2012
Member at Large (elected), Section H of American Association for the
Advancement of Science
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2009-present
Women’s Mentoring Network executive committee, American
Association of Physical Anthropologists
2007-present
Member, Center for Research and Training in Anthropogeny, University of
California, San Diego
2007-present
Advisory Board, Oxford U. Press, Advances in Human Evolution Series
2007-2009
Panelist, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
2006
Panelist, National Science Foundation Physical Anthropology
2005-2009
Associate Editor, Journal of Human Evolution
2005-2007
Associate Editor, American Anthropologist
2004-2006
Program Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
2002-2007
Associate Editor, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology
2002-present
Associate Editor, Paleoanthropology
2001-2003
Panelist, National Science Foundation Physical Anthropology
Significant Professional Service – On Campus
2010-present
Mission Based Metrics Review Task Force, MU SOM
2009-present
Life Sciences and Society Steering Committee
2009-present
Next Level of Excellence Planning Committee, MU SOM
2009-present
Block 2 planning committee, MU SOM
2008-present
Racial and Gender Equity Diversity Council, MU SOM
2007-2008
LCME Planning Committee, MU SOM
2006-present
Block 1 planning committee, MU SOM
2007-2008
Judge, Life Sciences Week poster competition
2006-2007
Life Sciences Week Planning Committee
2006
Judge, LSUROP poster competition judge
2005-2008
Student Conduct Committee
2005-2007
Residential Life Committee
2004-2005
Kemper Fellows Teaching Consultant (member & planning committee)
2002-2005
Family Sciences Initiative Task Force member
2000-2003
Arts and Science Executive Committee (elected) (Chair 2002-03)
1999-2002
Co-Chair, MU Childcare Task Force (created plan to construct
interdisciplinary childcare & family research center from concept through
research to business plan and conceptual design for development effort)
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1998-2001
President, Mid-Missouri Chapter of American Women in Science
1998-2000
Arts and Science Status of Women Committee
1997-1999
Campus Status of Women Committee
1996-1997
Arts and Science Curriculum, Instruction and Advising Committee
Professional Societies
2007-present
American Association of Anatomists
2005-2008
Lambda Alpha
2004-present
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1999-present
Sigma Xi
1993-2006
American Women in Science
1992-present
Paleoanthropology Society
1988-present
American Association of Physical Anthropology
1992-present
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
1990, 2008
American Anthropological Association
Field Experience
2012
Paleontological Fieldwork, Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya, prospecting and fossil
collection
2011
Paleontological Fieldwork, Kaitio, West Turkana, Kenya, fossil collection and
prospecting
2005
Paleontological survey, Croatia, with international team from National Museums
Croatia and University of Toronto, exploring sedimentary deposits to identify
fossiliferous localities likely to yield fossils of Miocene apes
2004
Paleontological fieldwork, Felsötarkàny, Hungary, with team from the Hungarian
Geologic Survey and University of Toronto, excavating Miocene mammal locality
1990
Paleontological fieldwork, Koobi Fora project, Koobi Fora, Kenya, excavating
fossils of Australopithecus boisei
1990
Paleontological fieldwork, West Turkana project, Lothagam, Kenya, surveying
and excavating 6 million year old mammalian fossils
1985
Contract Archeology, Center for American Archeology, Kampsville, IL
Grant and Manuscript Reviews
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National Science Foundation
L.S.B. Leakey Foundation
Science
Nature
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Journal of Human Evolution
Journal of Anatomy
International Journal of Primatology
Evolutionary Anthropology
Current Anthropology
Paleoanthropology
PLoS online
Classroom Teaching Experience
Fall 10
Human Gross Anatomy, School of Medicine, course coordinator
Fall 09
Human Gross Anatomy, School of Medicine, course coordinator
Fall 08
Anatomy 2201, Human Anatomy Lecture, course coordinator
Human Gross Anatomy, School of Medicine
Fall 07
Human Gross Anatomy, School of Medicine
Winter 07
Anatomy 2201, Human Anatomy Lecture, course coordinator
Fall 06
Anatomy 2201, Human Anatomy Lecture, course coordinator
Winter 06
Anatomy 2201, Human Anatomy Lecture, course coordinator
Fall 05
Anatomy 2201, Human Anatomy Lecture, course coordinator
Winter 05
Anthropology 1500, Monkeys, Apes and Humans
Anthropology 4500/7500, Human Origins
Anthropology 8900, Hominoid Phylogeny
Fall 04
Anatomy 2203, Elementary Anatomy Laboratory (3 sections)
Winter 04
Anthropology 149/150/151, Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Anthropology 160, Primate Anatomy and Evolution
Anthropology 452, Developmental Biology and Human Evolution
Fall 03
Block 1 Human Gross Anatomy, School of Medicine
Winter 03
Anthropology 364. Human Origins
Summer 02
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 02
Anthropology 60, Monkeys, Apes and Humans (w/ M. Flinn)
Anthropology 149/150/151, Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Anthropology 452, Evolution of Human Intelligence (w/ M. Flinn)
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Summer 01
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 01
Anthropology 364, Human Origins
Anthropology 452, Human Functional Anatomy
Summer 00
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Summer 99
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 99
Anthropology 149/150/151, Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Anthropology 364, Human Origins
Summer 98
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 98
Anthropology 60, Monkeys, Apes and Humans
Anthropology 364, Human Origins
Summer 97
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 97
Anthropology 149/150/151, Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Anthropology 452, Australopithecine Biology
Summer 96
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 96
Anthropology 364, Human Origins
Anthropology 452, Human Functional Anatomy
Summer 95
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Summer 94
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 94
Anthropology 149/150/151, Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 93
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 93
Anthropology 364, Human Origins
Anthropology 149/150/151, Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Summer 92
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 92
Anthropology 364, Human Origins
Anthropology 452, Human Functional and Evolutionary Anatomy
Summer 91
Anatomy 222, Gross Human Anatomy
Winter 91
Anthropology 364, Human Origins, University of Missouri
Winter 89
Primate Evolution and Anatomy, Maryland Science Center
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