My research seeks to understand the physiological mechanisms that shape animal life-history in response to social and environmental conditions. I primarily work with small mammals as model systems, with a particular interest in wild rodent populations (voles, white-footed mice) and non-traditional model species (naked mole-rats). Work in my lab integrates population ecology, animal behavior, endocrinology, and epigenetics to investigate how the environment changes animal phenotype and how these changes influence populations as a whole.