Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Siobhán Cooke is an Associate Professor in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Anthropology and Music from Barnard College and her MPhil and PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research program focuses on masticatory functional morphology, dental morphology, and South American mammalian evolution with a particular interest in primates. She directs paleontological field work in Colombia and in the Dominican Republic, which has been supported by the Leakey Foundation, National Geographic, and the Niarchos Foundation. Her current National Science Foundation supported research project examines patterns of niche partitioning in endemic Caribbean rodents as a case study for understanding adaptative radiations on islands and patterns of extinction and resilience. Dr. Cooke also enjoys raising carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes and looking at birds.
