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Education Harvard University Biological Anthropology 2007-Present (PhD candidate – expected 9/2012) Harvard University AM Biological Anthropology 2007 University of Connecticut BA Anthropology cum laude 2004 Appointments Resident Tutor 2009-Present Dunster House – undergraduate advisor; tutor in HEB, OEB, Anthropology Research Affiliate 2009-2011 Massachusetts General Hospital Sports Medicine Service Grants and Fellowships
Eliot Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2011-2012 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - $25,000 stipend Cora du Bois Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2011 Cora du Bois Charitable Trust - $4,000 stipend NSF – Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant 2010 The effects of forelimb anatomy on throwing performance: a biomechanical analysis (BCS 0961943) Advisor: Daniel Lieberman - $17,485 Harvard Merit Fellowship 2009-2010 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences – $13,000 stipend NSF – IGERT Fellowship 2006-2007 Harvard Biomechanics NSF - IGERT Program – $30,000 stipend Research Grant 2006 American School of Prehistoric Research – MSA archaeology/land use in Silali, Northern Kenyan Rift Valley - $5,400 Summer Research Fellowship 2002 University of Connecticut Honors Program - A landscape approach to archaeology at the Acheulian to MSA transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya - $4,600
Awards & Distinctions Ales Hrdlicka Prize for Outstanding Paper 2012 (American Association of Physical Anthropologists) Anatomy in Anthropology Student Award for Podium Presentation 2012 Honorable Mention, (American Association of Anatomists) Derek C. Bok Excellence in Teaching Award Nominee 2011 Harvard University Distinction in Teaching Award (Life Sciences 2 – Evolutionary Human Anatomy and Physiology) 2010 (Sci. of Living Systems 16 – Human Ev. and the Human Body) 2010 (Life Sciences 2 – Evolutionary Human Anatomy and Physiology) 2009 (Science B27 – Human Evolution) 2008 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 2007 Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Commendation 2005 Service
Session Chair (AAPA annual meetings) 2011 Graduate Representative to the HEB Faculty 2009-2010 Human Evolutionary Biology Graduate Curriculum Committee 2008
Field Experience Paleoenvironmental comparison of hominin 2008 & fossil chimpanzee localities, Baringo, Kenya Geological Survey of the Turkana Basin, Kenya 2007 Archaeological Survey of MSA deposits, Silali, Kenya 2006 Archaeology of Contact Interval Mashantucket Pequots, CT, US 2005 Landscape approach to MSA archaeology, Baringo, Kenya 2002
Professional Affiliations American Association of Physical Anthropologists Paleoanthropology Society British Institute in East Africa American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publications
Roach, N.T., Lieberman, D.E., Gill IV, T.J., Palmer, W.E., Gill III, T.J. 2012. The effect of humeral torsion on rotational range of motion in the shoulder and throwing performance. J. Anatomy. 220. 293-301
Tryon, C., Roach, N.T., Logan, A. 2008. The Middle Stone Age of the northern Kenyan Rift: age and context of new archaeological sites from the Kapedo Tuffs. J Human Evol. 55. 652-664
Conference Presentations
Roach, N.T., Lieberman, D. 2012. Derived anatomy of the shoulder and wrist enable throwing ability in Homo. Accepted for Podium presentation. AAPA annual meeting
Roach, N.T., Lieberman, D., Gill IV, T., Gill III, T., Palmer, W. 2011. The effect of humeral torsion on shoulder range-of-motion and throwing performance. Podium presentation. AAPA annual meeting Roach, N.T., Venkadesan, M. 2010. Throwing performance and elastic energy storage at the shoulder. Podium presentation. NEDVM annual meeting Roach, N.T., Venkadesan, M. 2010. High-speed throwing in humans requires elastic energy storage at the shoulder. Podium presentation. AAPA annual meeting Roach, N.T., Carmody, R., Reiches, M., McRae, E., Georgiev, A. 2009. Interpreting Hominin Variability: A test of the Template Method. Podium presentation. AAPA annual meeting Roach, N.T., Roebuck, P., Lieberman, D.E. 2008. The Evolution of Throwing: Improving Performance through Kinematic Optimization. Podium presentation. AAPA annual meeting. Roach, N.T., Roebuck, P., Lieberman, D.E. 2007. The Evolution of Throwing: Improving Performance through Kinematic Optimization. Podium presentation. NEDVM annual meeting. Tryon, C., Roach, N.T., Logan, A. 2007. Connecting the Dots: New Middle Stone Age sites from an unstudied region of the northern Kenyan Rift Valley. Poster. Paleoanthorpology annual meeting
Invited Presentations Roach, N.T. 2010. The effects of forelimb anatomy on throwing performance: a biomechanical analysis. Yale University Biological Anthropology Colloquium. Roach, N.T. 2008. The Evolution of Throwing. University of Connecticut Old World Prehistory Group.
Science in the Community
Human Origins workshop. Harvard Museum of Natural History. 2008