Sang-Hee Lee is a professor of anthropology and associate dean of the college of humanities, arts, and social sciences at University of California Riverside. Her research is multidisciplinary in nature, bridging biology and anthropology. Her approach is focused on “excavating” new knowledge by rephrasing a question, redefining a concept, and developing innovative methods—all in ways that make it possible to get empirical information from fossil data that have not been possible before.

Professor Lee’s new book is Close Encounters with Humankind: A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species.

She was in the Northwest to speak at the Greenwood Senior Center, presented by Town Hall as part of the Science series.