Thomas Rein

Tom Rein is a biological anthropologist and associate professor at Central Connecticut State University. He received his B.A. in anthropology from Columbia University in 2003. He then obtained his Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University in 2010.

Dr. Rein’s research interests include human evolution, functional morphology, the hominin fossil record, and primate locomotor behavior. Using geometric morphometrics and virtual anthropology, he examines variation in the shape of the primate limb skeleton in order to infer locomotor adaptation from primate fossils. Dr. Rein teaches in the Department of Anthropology and offers a wide range of lecture and laboratory courses in biological anthropology including those in forensic anthropology, primatology, paleoanthropology, and research methods (see course list below).