Art . Perception . Computation . Cooperation
The Forest
I am currently a Ross-Lynn postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University. My PI is Dr. Eric Otarola-Castillo. I'm an evolutionary primatologist by training, but since receiving my PhD. from Temple University in 2019, my work has focused on humans. I’m interested in how culture evolves and how our environment (physical and cultural) impacts the things we create. I have an eclectic background and broad experience in anthropology.
My previous appointment was in the Departments of Physics and Art History at Case Western Reserve University. My PIs are Dr. Elizabeth Bolman, Dr. Ken Singer and Dr. Michael Hinczewski. Along with an interdisciplinary team of collaborators, I am working on developing machine learning methods for identifying artistic practice regimes in paintings produced by Renaissance and early modern workshops, particularly works by El Greco. I began my time at Case in 2022 as the D. Keith and Margaret B. Robinson Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Science in Art.
Prior to my work at CWRU, I was a postdoc with the Human Generosity Project at Rutgers University, where I studied cooperation in health care sharing ministries in the US. My PIs at HGP were Drs. Lee Cronk and Athena Aktipis.
I postdoc-ed at the University of Houston, as well, where I studied the evolution of compositional structure in Indigenous artworks with Dr. Alexander Stewart's Mathematical Biology Group. Our paper is currently under review.
I'm Appalachian by birth (on my father's side), and grew up just over the mountain from the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
The Trees
2019: PhD in Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA…
Contact me
andrew.vanhorn@temple.edu
