Belbas Larson Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Andrea Liebl, honored in the tenured category, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, in the College of Arts & Sciences. Liebl received her Ph.D. in Behavior and Physiology of Range Expansion from the University of South Florida in 2013, her M.S. in Ecotoxicology of New Orleans post-Katrina from the University of New Orleans in 2007, and her B.S. in Psychobiology from Southampton College in 2005. Her teaching and research interests include Molecular Biology, Animal Behavior, Field Ecology Kenya, and how the environment influences phonotypes beyond the scope of genotype, specifically the effects of developmental and current (adult) environment on behavioral and physiological phenotypes.

Dr. Saige Kelmelis, honored in the non-tenured category, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, in the College of Arts & Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Demography from Pennsylvania State University in 2019, her M.S. in Forensic Anthropology from Boston University School of Medicine in 2014, and her B.A. in Anthropology from Franklin Pierce University in 2011. Her teaching and research interests include Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Past Health and Epidemics, Anthropological Demography, Evolution, Paleodemography, Hazard Analyses and Bayesian Statistics in Human Demography, Cementochronology and Human Life Histories in Bangladesh, Effects of Urbanization, Climate Change, Agricultural Growth on Health and Disease in Medieval Denmark, Paleodemography and Health in Ancient Maya, and Tattooing and Health.