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DR VARSHA PILBROW



Contact Details

Organization: Anatomy and Cell Biology
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW
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Work: 61383443979
Fax: 61393475219
Room: E503
Level: 05
Building: Medical Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Biological Anthropology Australia, United States of America
Systematics Australia, United States of America
Ontogeny Australia, United States of America
Relative dating Australia, United States of America
Phenotypic variation Australia, United States of America
Sociocultural anthropology Australia, United States of America
Dental anthropology Australia, United States of America
Paleoenvironment Australia, United States of America
Linguistic anthropology Australia, United States of America
Paleoanthropology Australia, United States of America
Fossils Australia, United States of America
Climate Australia, United States of America
Conservation Australia, United States of America
Human variation Australia, United States of America
Dental morphometrics Australia, United States of America
Health education United States of America, Australia
Health science Australia, United States of America
Craniometrics, human anatomy, skeletal biology Australia, United States of America

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Australia The Australian National University Research
United States University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research
United States New York University Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Languages

Languages

Language Proficiency
Marathi Speak, Read & Write
Hindi Speak, Read & Write

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Master of Arts University of Poona 31-May-1986
Master of Arts New York University 31-Dec-1992
Master of Philosophy New York University 30-Jun-1995
Doctor of Philosophy New York University 31-Jan-2003
Bachelor of Arts University of Bombay 31-May-1984

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member American Association of Physical Anthropologists Regular member 01-Jan-1993 31-Dec-2009
Member Australasian Primate Society Regular member 01-Jan-2006 31-Dec-2009
Member International Primatological Society Regular member 01-Jan-2007 31-Dec-2009
Member Dental Anthropology Association Regular member 01-Jan-2006 31-Dec-2009
Member Paleoanthropology Society Regular member 01-Jan-2004 31-Dec-2009

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students 31-May-2006
Prize American Association of Physical Anthropologists Ales Hrdlicka Student Prize 30-Apr-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Additional Grant and Contract Information

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (Co-PI) Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Predoctoral Grant L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Doctoral Research Grant

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Patterns of dental variation in extant apes with particular reference to the subspecies category in hominin taxonomy


    Year: 2007
    Book: Dental perspectives on human evolution: State of the art research in dental paleoanthropology
    Publisher: Springer(New York)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Lingual incisor traits in the modern hominoids and their utility for fossil hominoid taxonomy.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Journal of Physical Anthropology
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 323-338
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  • Population systematics of chimpanzees using molar morphometrics
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Human Evolution
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 646-662
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Interobserver error involved in independent attempts to measure cusp base areas of Pan M1s


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Anatomy
    Volume: 205
    Page numbers: 323-331
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  • Interobserver error involved in independent attempts to measure cusp base areas of Pan M1s.
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Anatomy
    Volume: 205
    Page numbers: 323-331
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