Rate My Professor Anne Stone

Anne Stone is a Regents Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, where she also serves as Director of the Center for Evolution and Medicine. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology and Biology from the University of Virginia in 1989, a Master of Arts with honors in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1992, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from Pennsylvania State University in 1996. Following her doctorate, she held a National Institutes of Health NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona from 1997 to 1998. Stone joined the University of New Mexico as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology from 1999 to 2003. She moved to Arizona State University in 2003 as an Associate Professor, advancing to Professor from 2010 to 2016, and was named Regents Professor in 2017. Additional roles include IHO Research Scientist at the Institute of Human Origins, core faculty in the Center for Evolution and Medicine since 2014, and Director of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research from 2014 to 2016. She has served on numerous university committees, including chairing search committees and executive committees, and held leadership positions such as President of the ASU chapter of Sigma Xi from 2008 to 2010.

Stone's research specialization is anthropological genetics, focusing on ancient DNA analysis, population history, human and great ape adaptations to environments including disease and diet, Native American population history, and the co-evolutionary history of pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae with humans and non-human primates. Key publications include 'Neandertal DNA sequences and the origin of modern humans' (Cell, 1997), 'Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation' (Nature Genetics, 2007), and 'Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis' (Nature, 2014). Her work has garnered over 12,700 citations on Google Scholar. Major awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2022), election to the National Academy of Sciences (2016), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011), and Regents Professor designation (2017). She has held editorial positions such as Senior Editor for Molecular Biology and Evolution (2012-2019) and member of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences editorial board (2017-present).