Short biography
Ashley Hammond’s research focuses on the discovery, description, and analysis of the fossil record for ape and human evolution, with special interests in biological form and function of the postcranial skeleton. She completed her PhD in 2013 in the Integrative Anatomy focus area at the University of Missouri. She subsequently held postdoctoral and teaching appointments at Stony Brook University, The George Washington University, and Howard University. In 2018, she became the Biological Anthropology curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, becoming a tenured professor and the Chair of the Division of Anthropology in 2022. In October 2025, she joined the ICP as an ICREA Research Professor to lead the newly-formed Hominin Origins Research Group.
