Overview
Anne C. Stone is an American anthropological geneticist and a Regents' Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on population history and understanding how humans and the great apes have adapted to their environments, including their disease and dietary environments. Stone is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Education
Stone completed her undergraduate degree in Biology and Archaeology at the University of Virginia. In 1989, she moved to Pennsylvania State University for her doctoral studies in Anthropology with George Milner and Mark Stoneking. Her doctoral research included the largest genetic analysis of a pre-historic Native American population, from the 700-year old Norris Farms cemetery in Illinois. In 1992, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to spend a year at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich working with the famous paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo. During this time, she conducted ancient DNA analyses of Ötzi, the Tyrolean Ice Man. Stone graduated with her doctoral degree in 1996 and joined the University of Arizona as a National Institutes of Health NRSA postdoctoral scholar to work alongside Michael Hammer.
Career and research
Stone joined the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor in 1999 and later moved to Arizona State University in 2003 as an associate professor. Stone became a full professor in 2010 and was selected as a Regents' Professor in 2017.
Stone is an expert in the field of ancient DNA research, especially on the population history of the Americas. Research in the Stone Lab focuses on three main themes: (a) Native American population history, (b) the evolutionary history of the Great Apes, and (c) understanding the co-evolutionary history of mycobacteria (specifically Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agents of tuberculosis and leprosy, respectively) with human and non-human primates.
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