Alison A. Elgart is a Full Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Binghamton in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University in 2000. Her interests focus on dental anthropology of humans and non-human primates, feeding ecology of non-human primates, and the biological relationships of Pre-Columbian Floridian populations.