Briana Pobiner

Paleoanthropologist and Museum Educator · Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History · company speakers →

Briana Pobiner, PhD , is a paleoanthropologist and museum educator whose science research centers on the evolution of Early Stone Age human diets (with a focus on meat-eating) and whose education research centers on the teaching and learning of human evolution in high school biology classrooms. Since joining the Smithsonian in 2005 to help put together the Hall of Human Origins, in addition to continuing her active field, laboratory, and experimental research programs, she has led the Human Origins Program’s education and outreach efforts. Briana is also an Associate Research Professor of Anthropology in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University. Read More Briana has a BA from Bryn Mawr College, where she created her own major called Evolutionary Studies, and an M. and PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University. She is the recipient of the 2021 American Association of Biological Anthropologists and Leakey Foundation Communication and Outreach Award in Honor of Camilla Smith, a 2021 National Center for Science Education Friend of Darwin awardee, and the 2024 recipient of the Evolution Education Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers.

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