Ashley Hammond is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She works on the fossil record for hominoid (ape and human) evolution in eastern Africa. Her interests in human origins centers on the evolution of locomotor behaviors, especially bipedal locomotion, which is the hallmark of the human lineage. Most of her research has focused on the functional morphology of the postcranial skeleton of fossil hominins. Hammond actively conducts paleontological research at several sites in Kenya in collaboration with researchers from the National Museums of Kenya. Her field work has centered on the east side of Lake Turkana in Plio-Pleistocene hominin-bearing deposits that range from about 1 million years to nearly 4 million years in age. Hammond is also interested in the development of novel techniques that can be applied to the study of fragmentary fossils in the laboratory, including nonlandmark-based morphometrics and digital modeling techniques.