Humanities Division
PhD student
Graduate
Anthropology Department
Science & Justice Research Center
History Of Consciousness
M.S. Primate Behavior and Ecology, Central Washington University
B.A. Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Primatology, Animal studies, Multispecies ethnography, Environmental humanities
TA Experience:
HISC 137: "Why Should I Care?" (Fall 2024, UCSC)
FMST 16: "Media Histories: News and New Media" (Winter 2025, UCSC)
HISC 1: "Introduction to History of Consciousness" (Spring 2025, UCSC)
- Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded April 2025
- Summer Pathways Fellowship, The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded April 2024
- Dean’s Travel Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded January 2024
- Regent’s Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded May 2024
- "Hybrid Primatology: Purity and Knowledge in the Anthropocene." Paper presentation at the 2025 Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference, Seattle, WA, USA
- "Identifying paternal behavior in captive Sumatran (Pongo abelii) and hybrid orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus x abelii)." Poster presention at the 2023 American Society of Primatologists Conference, Reno, NV, USA
Frakes, L. A., Mayhew, J. A., Ragan, P., Sheeran, L. K., & Gabriel, K. I. (2025). Examining Paternal Care in Captive Sumatran and Hybrid Orangutans. Zoo Biology. (published online ahead of print 2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.70012
Strong, K. K., Frakes, L. A., Mayhew, J. A., Thompson, C. J., & Ratliff, C. P. (2025). Behind the Trend: An Examination of Primate Content on TikTok. American Journal of Primatology, 87(8), e70063-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.70063
Callahan, J., & Frakes, L. (2024). Alpha and Ella: How Animal Antagonists Reflect Human Violence and Exceed Human Projections. Society & Animals (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10225