Blythe A. Williams

Are there any African Platyrrhines? - • Division of Fossil Primates – Duke Lemur Center – 40th Anniversary Symposium, American Association of Physical Anthropology Annual Meetings, New Orleans · 2017 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium

Ethical Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology - Duke University Undergraduate Bioethics Society · October 2015 Invited Talk Duke University,

Panel Guest for Namely Muscles Performance and Workshop - Duke University Department of Dance · 2014 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium

The Rise of Humans · 2012 Invited Talk Lutheran Church of the Good Shepard, Brevard, NC

“I Evolved to Dance” - National Geographic intern film · 2012 Interview

Early anthropoid evolution and new fossil primates from India · February 16, 2010 Lecture Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin

Early anthropoid evolution and new fossil primates from India · 2010 Invited Talk University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Annual invited lectures on “Paleontology and Human Evolution” and “Interpreting Data” · 2009 - 2013 Invited Talk Duke School for Children,

New Indian eosimiids: the oldest Asian record of anthropoids - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology · 2008 International Meeting or Conference

Life as a Paleontologist · 2008 Invited Talk Duke School for Children,

Eighth grade science class

New Uintan Primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of richness during the Eocene - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology · 2006 International Meeting or Conference

Invited lecture on primates · 2005 Invited Talk East Chapel Hill High School,

Guest Lecture - Hughes Precollege Program’s Minorities and Women in Science · 2002 Lecture Duke University

Primate Anatomy and Adaptive Evolution - National Science Foundation Chautauqua Program for College Teachers · 2002 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium

Phylogenetic analysis supports an Asian origin for crown Haplorhini and stem Anthropoidea and nests Platyrrhini among African Eocene-Oligocene Anthropoidea - Anthropoid Origins Symposium · 2001 Invited Talk National Science Foundation, Powdermill Nature Preserve of the Carnegie Museum

: Reconstructing the dietary adaptations of omomyid primates using homoplasy - • Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Workshop on Homoplasy in Primate and Human Evolution · 1999 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Columbus, Ohio

Anthropoid Origins, using a cladistic analysis - • Department of Phylogeny and Morphology, University of Kyoto Primate Research Institute, Inuyama, Japan · 1999 Invited Talk

Discovery of new primate fossils from Bone Cave, Ngamiland, Botswana - American Association of Physical Anthropology · 1998 National Scientific Meeting

Omomyid Primate Evolution - • State University of New York, Stony Brook, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences Lecture Series · 1996 Invited Talk

Incisor morphology of omomyid primates: implications for phylogeny and adaptation - American Association of Physical Anthropology · 1994 National Scientific Meeting

Phylogeny of the Primate Family Omomyidae: A cladistic analysis "backboned" with stratigraphy - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology · 1994 International Meeting or Conference

Sandcouleean omomyids from the Powder River Basin, Wyoming - American Association of Physical Anthropology · 1993 National Scientific Meeting

Phylogenetic analysis of Eocene primates suggests Omomyidae is not a monophyletic group - International Primatological Society · 1992 International Meeting or Conference

In Search of Early Primates in North America, South America, and Africa - Sigma Xi · 1992 Invited Talk University of Colorado, Boulder,

Primate diversity in the early Eocene of the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - International Primatological Society · 1992 International Meeting or Conference

A new species of Anemorhysis from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - American Association of Physical Anthropology · 1992 National Scientific Meeting

Newly recovered North American Eocene omomyids and adapids and their bearing on debates about anthropoid origins - Conference on Anthropoid Origins, Wenner-Gren Foundation and L.S.B. Leakey Foundations · 1992 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University, Durham, NC

Primate diversity in the early Eocene of the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - • Symposium on North American Paleogene primate evolution · 1992 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Strasbourg, France

Phylogenetic analysis of Eocene primates suggests Omomyidae is not a monophyletic group - • Symposium on North American Paleogene primate evolution · 1992 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Strasbourg, France

Dental evidence for anthropoid origins - Conference on Anthropoid Origins, Wenner-Gren Foundation and L.S.B. Leakey Foundations · 1992 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University, Durham, NC

New specimens of Arapahovius gazini from early Eocene deposits of the Washakie Basin,Wyoming - American Association of Physical Anthropology · 1991 National Scientific Meeting

An unusual new early Eocene (Lower Graybull) primate fauna from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - American Association of Physical Anthropology · 1990 National Scientific Meeting

A new early Wasatchian mammalian fauna from the Washakie Basin, Wyoming - Society of Vertebrate Paleontology · 1990 International Meeting or Conference

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

• Supervisor of Independent Project - Duke Engage · 2019 - 2020 Service Learning flag

United States of America Dance for people with Parkinson's Disease, training with Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn, NY

• Consultant - North Carolina Museum of Natural History · 2018 Consulting Consulting on primate exhibit. Identification of primate skeletons

• Outreach coordination - Department of Evolutionary Anthropology · 2011 - 2019 Community Outreach Duke University Provide outreach materials and assistance for graduate students and faculty, 2011 to present

• Volunteer Educator in paleontology · 2001 - 2015 Community Outreach Duke School flag

United States of America

Service to the Profession

Paleontologia Electronica manuscript reviews · 2017 Editorial Activities

Evolution manuscript reviews · 2015 - 2016 Editorial Activities

PLOS One manuscript reviews · 2015 - 2015 Editorial Activities

Johns Hopkins Press extensive pre-publication book review · 2013 Editorial Activities

Abstract reviews and editing - • Scientific Committee for International Primatological Society 25th annual congress · 2013 - 2014 Editorial Activities

Abstract reviews - • Women in Science and Engineering Symposium (WiSE) · 2012 - 2013 Editorial Activities

American Journal of Physical Anthropology manuscript reviews · 2012 - 2015 Editorial Activities

Gondwana Research manuscript reviews · 2012 Editorial Activities

National Science Foundation grant proposal review · 2011 Committee Service

Journal of Human Evolution manuscript reviews · 2011 - 2016 Editorial Activities

Grant reviews - L.S.B. Leakey Foundation · 2011 - 2011 Editorial Activities

Geology · 2010 Editorial Activities

National Science Foundation grant proposal review · 2010 Committee Service

National Science Foundation grant proposal review · 2009 Committee Service

Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences manuscript reviews · 2009 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke

Partner · 2014 Consulting NC Museum of Natural Sciences,

NC Museum of Natural Sciences partnership with Evolutionary Anthropology to enhance research opportunities and anatomical collections

Duke University representative . US-Canada tour of Ötzi, A Time Capsule of Human Life Exhibit · 2012 Event Attendance

An international partnership between Museumspartner (Innsbruck, Austria), the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, and the American Anthropological Association.

Evolutionary Anthropology Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Department) · 2010 - 2019 Committee Service Duke University,

Evolutionary Anthropology Graduate Teaching Development Committee (Department) · 2010 - 2019 Committee Service Evolutionary Anthropology,

Supervisor and Curator . Evolutionary Anthropology Research and Teaching Collections · 2009 - 2019 Other Duke University,

Curator of Evolutionary Anthropology Research and Teaching Collections. Maintain databases of collections, order new materials, supervise graduate and undergraduate students, write reports, correspond with researchers wishing to use collections

Academic & Administrative Activities

Field Research Experience

Participant, University of Texas paleontological expedition to Big Bend area, West Texas to collect Oligocene primates and other mammals. E.C. Kirk, Director. 2014
Director, Paleontological fieldwork in Cenozoic deposits in Kutch District, Gujarat, western India. 2010
Participant, University of Texas paleontological expedition to Big Bend area, West Texas to collect Oligocene primates and other mammals. E.C. Kirk, Director. 2006
Participant, Duke University paleontological expedition to southern Patagonia region of Argentina. Richard Kay, Director. 2005
Co-Director, Duke University paleontological expedition to the Big Bend area, West Texas to collect Oligocene primates and other mammals. Mark Hamrick and Richard Kay, Co-Directors. 1996
Co-Director, Duke University paleontological expeditions to the Gcwhihaba and Koanaka Hills, Northwestern Botswana to collect fossils from Plio-Pleistocene cave deposits. Dr. Diane Waddle and Callum Ross, Co-Directors. 1994-1995
Participant, Stony Brook paleontological expedition to the Algoa Basin, South Africa to collect Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous dinosaurs, mammals, and birds. Dr. Cathy Forster and Dr. Callum Ross, Co-Directors. 1995
Participant, Duke University and Bolivian Geological Survey paleontological expedition to western Bolivia to collect early Tertiary primates and other mammals, Dr. Richard Kay, Director. 1992, 1994
Co-Director, University of Colorado Museum paleontological expeditions to Washakie and Bridger Basins of Wyoming to collect Eocene primates and other mammals. Dr. Herbert Covert, Co-Director. 1992-1993
Director of paleontological research for Chinook Paleontology, survey and mitigation of paleontological resources in the Rocky Mountain Region. 1991-1993
Participant, Duke University paleontological expedition to Patagonia region, Argentina to collect Miocene primates and other mammals, Dr. Richard Kay, Director. 1991
Assistant Director, University of Colorado paleontological expeditions to the Washakie Basin, Wyoming and Sand Wash Basin, Colorado to collect Eocene primates, other vertebrates, Dr. Herbert Covert, Director. 1987-1992
Participant, Duke University paleontological expedition to the Fayum Region, Egypt to collect Eocene and Oligocene primates and other mammals, Dr. Elwyn Simons, Director. 1989
Participant, University of Colorado Museum paleontological expeditions to Huerfano Basin, Colorado, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, to collect Eocene fossils, Dr. Peter Robinson, Director. 1989-1992
Field Supervisor, Institute for Minnesota Archaeology, survey and excavation of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Minnesota and Wisconsin. 1984-1985
Field Supervisor, Minnesota State Archaeologist's Office, salvage excavations of human osteological remains throughout Minnesota. 1982-1986
Field Supervisor, Archaeological Research Services, archaeological contract survey and excavation of prehistoric sites in Minnesota. 1983-1985
Field assistant, Institute for Minnesota Archaeology excavation of Zebulon Pike's outpost on the Mississippi River and of a fur trading post in Northern Minnesota. 1983
Field assistant, University of Minnesota, archaeological excavation of prehistoric sites in Minnesota and Wisconsin. 1983
Field assistant, Hamline University-University of Minnesota, joint archaeology field school, excavation of historic fur trading post, Minnesota. 1982

Supervisory Activities

Supervise undergraduate and graduate students maintaining Evolutionary Anthropology Research and Teaching Collections. 2009-2019