Elizabeth Sawchuk is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow, a research assistant professor of anthropology at Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and an affiliated researcher with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) in Jena, Germany. She is a bioarchaeologist who studies the biological and social impacts of the spread of food production across sub-Saharan Africa. Sawchuk conducts archaeological research in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia to understand the different ways in which people adopted herding and farming, and the environmental and cultural contexts of these transitions.