Dr. Alexandra Kralick is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As an anatomically trained biological anthropologist with a background in critical science studies and four-field anthropology, her research takes a holistic and integrative approach to primate anatomy. Her toolkit integrates field- and lab-based methods with critical theory to reveal the breadth of within-sex variation present in the bodies of our closest living relatives.

Her work primarily focuses on orangutan skeletal biology, with particular attention to sex-linked variation in life history and functional morphology. She developed a method for identifying a unique form of male variation in orangutans (flanged and unflanged males) in museum collections. Her upcoming Leakey Foundation-funded project at the Tuanan Orangutan Research Station connects skeletal biology with behavior. She directs the Global Whole Ape Curation Project (GWACP), a Wenner-Gren Foundation–funded project in active development that will create a digital database to contextualize and increase access to great ape remains in museum collections.

Dr. Kralick earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University (2023-2024) and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College (2024-2025). She holds a B.S. in Biological Anthropology from The George Washington University.