Academic appointments

Assistant Professor, Midwestern University, 2025 - present

RGGS Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Research Fellow, AMNH, 2023 – 2025

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Stony Brook University, 2024 – 2025  

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Utah, 2021 – 2023 

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University, 2013 – 2020 

Resident Academic Director, Turkana Basin Institute, 2017 – 2018 

Education

PhD in Anthropology, Stony Brook University, NY, 2020

M.A. in Anthropology, Stony Brook University, NY, 2016

B.S. in Biological Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 2010

Teaching Experience

Lab Instructor (The University of Utah)

• The SPATIAL Isotopes in Biogeochemistry & Ecology Course

Guest Lecturer (Turkana Basin Institute Origins Field School)

• Ecology and Vertebrate Paleontology modules

Lab Instructor (Stony Brook University)

• ANP 300 Human Anatomy 

• HBA 531/MED 500 Dissection-based Medical Gross Anatomy

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Stony Brook University)

• ANP 300 Human Anatomy 

• ANT 260 "How we eat"

• ANT 290 "Technologies in ancient societies"

• Turkana Basin Institute Origins Field School

Field Experience

• Southern Kenyan Rift Project, Kenya, 2023

• Dissertation field work: Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya, 2018, 2017

• Origins Field School, Turkana Basin Institute, Kenya, 2018, 2017 and 2015

• Global Innovation Field School, Turkana Basin Institute, Kenya,  2017

• Koobi Fora Research Project at Ileret, Turkana Basin Institute, Kenya, 2012 - 2014

• Koobi Fora Field School, Rutgers University and National Museums of Kenya, 2011

Laboratory Research

• Organic Geochemistry and Stable Isotope Labs, Harvard University, Collaborator: Dr. Kevin Uno

• Environmental Isotope Paleobiogeochemistry Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Collaborator: Stanley Ambrose. 

• The SPAtio-Temporal Isotope Analytics Lab (SPATIAL),  University of Utah, Collaborator: Dr. Gabriel Bowen

• Stable Isotope Geochemistry Lab, Stony Brook University, Collaborator: Dr. Gregory Henkes

• Stable Isotope Ratio Facility for Environmental Research (SIRFER), University of Utah, Collaborator: Dr. Thure Cerling

• ICP-MS Metals Lab, University of Utah, Collaborator: Dr. Diego Fernandez.

Professional Preparation

• SPATIAL stable isotope short course, University of Utah, 2019

• Resident Academic Director, Turkana Basin Institute Origins Field School and Global Innovation Field School, 2017-2018.

• Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry and Ecology (IsoCamp), University of Utah, 2015

Other Websites

• Contributions to the SPATIAL GitHub repository: https://github.com/SPATIAL-Lab

• ResearchGate profile page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deming_Yang3

• Science communication efforts: https://beyondsafaris.blogspot.com/

• Photos and blog posts while living in Kenya: http://yangdeming.zenfolio.com/