Tesla A. Monson

UC Regent’s Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University, Tesla A. Monson, PhD, is an internationally recognized, award-winning scholar whose research and teaching focus on the evolution of reproduction and the growth of the skeletal system in living and fossil primates. She teaches courses on biological anthropology, human evolution, and the human skeleton at Western Washington University and her writing on these topics has been viewed and shared by millions of people worldwide. She earned a BA from Princeton University, a MA from San Francisco State University, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.