Jason Lewis

Department of anthropology
lecturer

Dr. Jason E. Lewis is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology. He also serves as the Assistant Director of SBU's Turkana Basin Institute, is faculty director of Undergraduate Studies for the Human Evolutionary Biology Major and the Advanced Graduate Certificate in Human Origins program, and leads study abroad programs to Kenya and Ecuador. His research focuses on examining the fossil record from the Plio-Pleistocene of East Africa, especially the Turkana Basin in Kenya, and also Southern France. He uses paleontological and stable isotopic approaches to build paleoecological frameworks for accurately reconstructing the natural selective background to hominins’ morphological evolution, changes in their subsistence strategies, and innovations in cognition, technology, and social behavior.