Evan Cunningham is a doctoral student in Biological Anthropology broadly interested in behavior, endocrinology, and evolution. He is interested in how cognitive processes are influenced by socialecological and biological factors and is studying social learning in capuchin monkeys at the Capuchins de Taboga field site in Costa Rica. He is also interested in how behavioral flexibility affects species’ abilities to adapt to changing anthropogenic ecologies, and what the consequences of these processes may be for biological evolution. Finally, he studies the politics of knowledge construction by looking at the cultural forces that affect how science is studied. To this end, Evan has conducted research on how same-sex sexual behavior has been studied in non-human primates. 

Outside of work, he enjoys trying new food, reading fantasy novels, and gardening.