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  Lilith Anne Frakes

Lilith Anne Frakes

PhD student

 

Humanities Division

History of Consciousness Department

PhD student

Graduate

Anthropology Department
Science & Justice Research Center
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

History Of Consciousness

M.S. Primate Behavior and Ecology, Central Washington University

B.A. Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Primatology, Animal Studies, Multispecies Ethnography, Environmental Humanities

 

TA Experience:

HISC 137: "Why Should I Care?" (Fall 2024, UCSC)

FMST 16: "Media Histories: News and New Media" (Winter 2025, UCSC)

HISC 1: "Introduction to History of Consciousness" (Spring 2025, UCSC)

HUMN 25: "Humans & Machines: A History" (Fall 2025, UCSC)

  • Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded April 2025
  • Summer Pathways Fellowship, The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded April 2024
  • Dean’s Travel Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded January 2024
  • Regent’s Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded May 2024

 

  • "Hybrid Primatology: Purity and Knowledge in the Anthropocene." Paper presentation at the 2025 Society for the Social Studies of Science Conference, Seattle, WA, USA
  • "Identifying paternal behavior in captive Sumatran (Pongo abelii) and hybrid orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus x abelii)." Poster presention at the 2023 American Society of Primatologists Conference, Reno, NV, USA

Frakes, L. A., Mayhew, J. A., Ragan, P., Sheeran, L. K., & Gabriel, K. I. (2025). Examining Paternal Care in Captive Sumatran and Hybrid Orangutans. Zoo Biology. (published online ahead of print 2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.70012

Strong, K. K., Frakes, L. A., Mayhew, J. A., Thompson, C. J., & Ratliff, C. P. (2025). Behind the Trend: An Examination of Primate Content on TikTok. American Journal of Primatology, 87(8), e70063-n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.70063

Callahan, J., & Frakes, L. (2024). Alpha and Ella: How Animal Antagonists Reflect Human Violence and Exceed Human Projections. Society & Animals (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10225

 

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