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Lilith Anne Frakes
  • Title
    • PhD student
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History of Consciousness Department
  • Email
  • Mail Stop History Of Consciousness

Research Interests

Primatology, Animal studies, Multispecies ethnography, Environmental humanities

Biography, Education and Training

M.S. Primate Behavior and Ecology, Central Washington University (2023)

B.A. Anthropology, emphasis in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, and Comparative Literature, Stanford University (2021)

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • 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 2023
  • Central Washington University Graduate Student Summer Fellowship, Central Washington University, Awarded June 2022
  • Debra and Arlen Prentice Research Award, Central Washington University, Awarded April 2022
  • James Lowell Gibbs Jr. Award for Outstanding Service to the Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Awarded June 2021

 

Selected Publications

  • 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

Selected Presentations

  • "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.
  • "An analysis of non-human primates on TikTok." Podium talk presented at the 2023 American Society of Primatologists Conference, Reno, NV, USA.