I'm a behavioral ecologist studying individual variation in social behavior and the consequences of that variation on animals' fitness. In February 2025 I joined Elizabeth Archie's lab as a postdoc to study the effect of social environment on acute and chronic stress responses as part of the Amboseli Baboon Project.

I received my BS from the University of Michigan in 2015, and my PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2024. My doctoral research focused on social variation in California ground squirrels, which have a flexible and dynamic social structure that allowed me to examine whether more social squirrels have larger home ranges, more diverse gut microbiomes, and better access to information about novel resources. You can find out more about the ground squirrel project run by my collaborator Jenn Smith at her website. 

If you'd like to chat, you can find me at [email protected] and @erinperson.bsky.social