Chrysalis Prize Finalists
Archaeology
Dr. Jordi A. Rivera Prince
Brown University
2026
Dr. Jordi A. Rivera Prince is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. Jordi specializes in bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology of coastal communities, both in the Andes pre-colonization and in Colonial New England. Beginning this fall, she will join the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University as an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Will Taylor
University of Colorado
2026
Dr. Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado. His research focuses on the relationship between humans and animals, with a topical focus on horses and animal domestication, and a technical emphasis on archaeozoology, glacial archaeology, archaeological science, and emerging technologies. He has ongoing field projects in the Great Plains and the American Southwest as well as Mongolia and the Steppes of Central Asia.
Evolutionary Biology
Dr. Alison Feder
University of Washington
2026
Dr. Alison Feder is an Assistant Professor in Genome Science at the University of Washington. Her lab aims to uncover how the rapid evolution of pathogens and cancers within people exacerbates disease, and how a better understanding of this intra-host evolution can be harnessed to improve human health. She is particularly interested in how the complex environment of the human body shapes this process across spatial scales.
Dr. Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
2026
Dr. Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong is a professor at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Their research focuses on understanding genotype-phenotype mapping, including modeling of gene-environment interactions. Sinnott-Armstrong focuses much of their work on cardiometabolic and pulmonary diseases, using both computational and experimental methods to address questions around causal mechanism and heterogeneity between individuals.