(BA Anthropology, 2005 University of Colorado; MA Anthropology, 2009 University of Colorado; PhD Anthropology, 2019 University of Colorado). Bender is primarily interested in nutritional anthropology, human biology, and quantitative methods.听His research focuses on human energetics,听biological and cultural influences on dietary behavior, and听population-level transitions in diet and health.听His advisor was Darna Dufour.