• 2017 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Medicine
  Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine

• 2016 – 2017: Assistant Professor of Anthropology
  Stony Brook University
• 2012 – 2014: Teaching Assistant of Medical Gross Anatomy
  University of Missouri
• 2011 – 2016: Research Assistant, Integrative Anatomy
  University of Missouri
• 2010 – 2011: Research Assistant, Coastal Archaeology Lab and Digital Imaging Lab
  Louisiana State University

• Teaching Academy (2015)
  Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Miscellaneous

• Chaparral High School Pre-Med Anatomy Program, RVUCOM (2017)
• Marshall High School Anatomy Outreach (2015)
• Waynesville Nursing School Anatomy Outreach (2014)
• Mizzou Health: Heart Anatomy (2012, 2014)
• Mizzou Young Medics Camp (2014)
• Mizzou Grad School Adventures in Education Outreach Event (2014)
• Paris High School Anatomy Outreach (2013)
• Mizzou Science Safari Elementary Outreach Event (2013)
• Mizzou Adventures in Education Outreach Event (2013)
• Caleb’s Kids High School Outreach Program (2012)
• Mizzou Pre-Med Society Upper Limb and Thorax Anatomy (2012)

• American Association of Anatomists
  2014-present
• American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2010-present

• Travel Scholarship
  Graduate Professional Council
  2015
• Travel Scholarship
  John D. Bies International, MU Graduate School
  2014
• 1st Place – Genetics, Evolution and Environment
  MU Life Sciences Week
  2014
• Travel Scholarship
  Graduate Professional Council
  2014
• Life Sciences Fellowship
  University of Missouri
  2011
• Honorable Mention
  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  2011

Publications

• Moffett EA (2017). Dimorphism in the size and shape of the birth canal across anthropoid primates. Anatomical Record.
• Ward CV, Feibel CS, Hammond AS, Leakey LN, Moffett EA, Plavcan JM, Skinner MM, Spoor F, Leakey MG (2015). Associated ilium and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya, and postcranial diversity in early Homo. Journal of Human Evolution, 81(1): 48-67.
• Moffett EA, Maddux SD, Ward CV (2013). Sexual dimorphism in the catarrhine sacrum: effects of body size dimorphism and relative neonate size. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 152(4): 435-446.
• Moffett EA and Aldridge K (2013). A novel method for estimating the size of the infant anterior fontanelle. Anatomical Record 297(2): 234-239.

Presentations

• “Dimorphism in the size and shape of anthropoid pelves”
  American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2017
• “The ontogeny of dimorphism: Age, parity, and pelvic form in Macaca mulatta”
  American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2016
• “The relationship between cephalopelvic proportions and sexual dimorphism in the birth canal and non-obstetric pelvis in anthropoids”
  American Association of Anatomists
  2015
• “The relationship between cephalopelvic proportions and sexual dimorphism in the birth canal and non-obstetric pelvis in anthropoids”
  American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2015
• “Pelvic inlet shape and sex determination from a fragmentary fossil pelvis”
  American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2014
• “Pelvic inlet shape and sex determination from a fragmentary fossil pelvis”
  MU Life Sciences Week
  2014
• “Sexual dimorphism of the sacrum in catarrhine primates:  influences of obstetrics and body size dimorphism”
  American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2013
• “A novel method for measuring the infant anterior fontanelle using 3D CT imaging”
  American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  2012

Grants:

• Research Grant, $6,100, Louis B. Leakey Foundation (2015)
• Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, $13,545, Wenner-Gren Foundation (2014)

Elizabeth Moffett, PhD, is a native of South Louisiana. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at Louisiana State University in 2011. She then completed her doctorate in 2016 at the University of Missouri, where she taught anatomy to medical students, occupational therapy students, and undergraduates. As a graduate student, she also conducted paleontological fieldwork in Kanapoi, Kenya, and collected data at numerous natural history museums in the US and abroad. Prior to arriving at Rocky Vista University, Dr. Moffett served as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University from 2015-2016, during which time she was a lecturer and lab instructor for their undergraduate human anatomy course.

Dr. Moffett came to Rocky Vista University in 2017, and she currently lectures in Gross Anatomy and Histology for the College of Medicine and MSBS program. In addition to teaching human anatomy and histology at various institutions, Dr. Moffett has conducted and published research on human evolution and paleontology, primate evolution, and comparative primate anatomy.