About

Profesional Appointments

2021-present

Research Associate, Department of Mammalogy, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

2020-present

Assistant Professor of Clinical Integrative Sciences, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

2019-2020

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University

Education

2019

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, Biological Anthropology Title: Adaptive significance of primate binocular vision for grasping and locomotion

2013

M.A., University of Texas at Austin. Biological Anthropology.

2009-2011

Fulbright Graduate Fellow, University of Helsinki, Institute for Biotechnology.

2009

B.A., Mount Holyoke College, Biology, magna cum laude.

Funding

Pending

• 2024 NSF Biological Anthropology “Collaborative Research: Evolution of visual guidance during locomotion in primates” (PI, $445,822, submitted Jan 2024)

External

• 2022 NSF “RAPID: Sensorimotor function in complex environments in a strepsirrhine neuroanatomical model species” BCS Award #2229742 (PI, $95,288, returned due to USC policy change on non-human primate research)
• 2020 Duke Lemur Center Director’s Fund Grant ($3,500)
• 2017 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (with E.C. Kirk, $12,122)
• 2016 Mount Holyoke Alumnae Foundation Research Grant ($5,000)
• 2010 Ira Skillman Grant ($1,500)
• 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Research Grant ($3,000)

Internal

• 2023 Provost’s Office funding to compensate for loss of NSF BCS #2229742 ($57,750)
• 2023 Undergraduate Research Associates Program ($6,600)
• 2022 Undergraduate Research Associates Program ($6,600)
• 2021 Zumberge Individual Grant ($30,000)
• 2020 Undergraduate Research Support Grant, Duke University ($1,000 in equipment loans)
• 2020 Arts & Sciences Council Committee on Faculty Research Award, Duke University ($4,345)
• 2015 Anthropology Summer Research Grant, UT Austin ($2,000)
• 2011-2018 Professional Development Award, UT Austin ($1,500 over 7 years)
• 2009 Honors Thesis Research Grant, Mount Holyoke College ($1,800)

Presentations

Published Abstracts

(podium, ^ student coauthor)

• 2024 Kirk EC, Campisano CJ, Deino AL, Egberts S, Kemp AD, Lundeen IK, Rodwell B. Primate postorbital morphology and the question of omomyoid phylogenetic relationships. American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles.
• 2024 Grider-Potter N, Kemp AD, Laird MF, Odele D, Young J, Ross C, Phillips KA. Kinematics strategies across substrates of varying risk and complexity in Sapajus apella. American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles.
• 2024 Viera A^, Kemp AD. Effects of substrate type and food mobility on tree shrew grasping behaviors. American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Los Angeles.
• 2023 Kemp AD, Benjamin, JJ^. Effects of cursoriality on mammalian semicircular canal morphology. International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns.
• 2023 Kemp AD, Lewton K. Comparative perspective on gaze during naturalistic locomotion in humans. American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno.
• 2022 Kemp AD, Hendi H^, McNamar A^, Dunham NT, Hieronymus T, Phelps T^, Shapiro LJ, Young JW. Differential use of arboreal substrates during leaping in free-ranging primates and squirrels. American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Denver.
• 2021 Lundeen I, Kemp AD. Evolutionary patterns of relative turbinate size across Euarchontoglires, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Baltimore.
• 2020 Kemp AD, Yapuncich, G, Zeininger, A. Mechanics of leaping between vertical supports in a small arboreal quadruped (Cheirogaleus medius). American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Los Angeles.
• 2019 Kemp AD. Effects of binocular field width on grasping performance in Cheirogaleus medius and Microcebus murinus: Implications for primate origins. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland.
• 2018 Kemp AD. Effect of binocular field width on leaping performance in Cheirogaleus medius. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Austin.
• 2017 Kemp AD, Kirk EC. Mammalian eye orientation: Comparison of bony orbit orientation and soft tissue measures from dice-CT scans. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Calgary.
• 2017 Kemp AD, Kirk EC, Beard KC. Body size estimation for the Shanghuang petrosal. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans.
• 2017 Shapiro LJ, Kemp AD. Intraspecific variation in hominoid vertebral morphology. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans.
• 2017 Heard-Booth A, Kemp AD. Ontogenetic changes and adult variation in human metatarsal torsion. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans.
• 2016 Kemp AD, Shapiro LJ. Intraspecific variation in hominoid lumbar vertebral morphology. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Atlanta.
• 2015 Viola PA, Kemp AD, Kirk EC, Bhullar B, Cifelli RL, Martínez RN, Rougier G W, Wallace RV, Rowe TB. Vestibular sensitivity in extant monotremes and in Mesozoic mammaliamorphs.
• 2014 Kemp AD, Barr WA. Rates of homoplasy in the mammalian skeleton and applications to the primate fossil record. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin.
• 2014 Kemp AD, Barr, W.A. Rates of homoplasy in the mammalian skeleton. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary.
• 2014 Shapiro LJ, Kemp AD, Young JW. Kinematic adjustments to substrate size and orientation during asymmetrical gaits in mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus). American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary.
• 2014 Kirk EC, Berlin JC, Kemp AD, Rowe TJ. Visual influences on semicircular canal morphology. International Primatological Society, Hanoi.
• 2013 Kemp AD, Kirk EC. Eye size as a selective determinant of vestibular sensitivity. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville.
• 2012 Kemp AD, Zohdy S, Jernvall J. Lateral digit proportions in mouse lemurs and sciurids: implications for biomechanical and hormonal signal antagonism. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Portland.
• 2012 Kirk EC, Kemp A.D., Boyer D, Simons E, Seiffert E. Petrosal anatomy of Afradapis. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Portland.
• 2012 Zohdy S, Kemp AD, Durden L, Wright P, Jernvall J. Mapping the Social Network: Tracking lice in a wild primate (Microcebus rufus) population to infer social contacts and vector potential. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Charleston.
• 2012 Zohdy S, Kemp AD, Durden L, Wright P, Jernvall J. Tracking lice in a wild primate population reveals social contacts and vector potential. International Primatological Society, Cancun.
• 2011 Kemp AD, Jernvall J, Thorington RW. Developmental and population variation as a proxy of ‘evolvability’. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Salt Lake City.
• 2010 Kemp AD, Jernvall J, Thorington RW. Development, variability and evolvability in the mammalian autopod. Euro EvoDevo, Paris.
• 2009 Kemp AD, Thorington RW. Predicting ecology through osteology in Marmotini. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston

Presentations without published abstracts

• 2022 Grider-Potter N, Kemp AD, Odele D, Ross CN, Phillips KA. Head motion during arboreal locomotion in Sapajus apella. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists.
• 2018 Kemp AD. Effect of binocular field width on leaping performance in a small bodied strepsirrhine: Implications for primate origins. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists.
• 2017 Shapiro LJ, Kemp AD. Intraspecific variation in strepsirrhine vertebral morphology. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists.
• 2016 Shapiro LJ, Kemp AD. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists.
• 2016 Kemp AD, Shapiro, LJ. Ape locomotor behavior and constraints on intraspecific variation in vertebral morphology. New Directions in Anthropology, UT Austin.
• 2012 Kemp AD, Kirk, EC. Eye size as a selective determinant of vestibular sensitivity. Texas Association of Biological Anthropologists.

Invited talks

• 2020 “Primate visual and locomotor evolution: Integrative and comparative approaches” University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
• 2020 “Adventures in harmonious confusion” Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Workshop in Honor of Stan Rachootin
• 2019 “Adaptative significance of binocular vision in early primate evolution” Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Anatomy
• 2019 “Primate sensory evolution: Anatomical, paleontological and experimental perspectives” University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences
• 2018 “Primate Origins: Insights from cheirogaleid locomotion and predatory behavior” UT Anthropological Society
• 2017 “Primate Origins and Pirate Lemurs: The functional importance of binocular vision in leaping and feeding” Duke Lemur Center

Professional Memberships

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
• Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Society of Systematic Biologists.