Isabella Araiza (she/her/hers)

Graduate Student

Biological Anthropology

Woman with glasses in a pink baseball hat with a teddy bear on it, standing in a dirt hole

Contact Information

arizzy98@uw.edu

Denny Hall TA Loft

Office Hours

By appointment

Fields of Interest

Biological Anthropology Evolution Functional & Evolutionary Morphology Locomotion Non-Human Primate Evolution Paleoanthropology Quantitative Methods Statistics

Biography

M.S., Human Skeletal Biology, New York University, 2023

B.A., Anthropology, University of California Riverside, 2021

Curriculum Vitae (96.5 KB)

Research

Selected Research

Araiza, I. (2025). Elliptical Fourier analysis of hominoid radius shape: Implications for Ardipithecus ramidus. Biology Open, bio.061938. https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.061938 Download PDF
Araiza, I. F. X., Meyer, M. R., & Williams, S. A. (2021). Is ulna curvature in the STW 573 (‘little foot’) australopithecus natural or pathological? Journal of Human Evolution, 151, 102927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102927 Download PDF

Courses Taught

Winter 2026

BIO A 201 A: Principles of Biological Anthropology

Autumn 2025

Spring 2025

Winter 2025

BIO A 487 A: Human and Comparative Osteology

Autumn 2024

Affiliations

Home Department

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Biological Anthropology

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