PhD, 2020
Elsie’s dissertation addressed the interplay between sexual- and natural-selection in Neotropical manakins. She used comparative approaches to understand selection on male traits, demographic methods to understand the importance of rain on survival, cross-site comparisons and genetic methods to link abiotic constraints to population differences, and behavioral experiments to understand variation in male reproductive behavior. She joined Dr. Al Uy’s lab as a postdoc and now is an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest.