Jennifer Cramer earned a B.S. in both Biology and Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004, and a M.A. in Anthropology from New Mexico State University in 2007. Cramer is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
As an undergraduate student, she was a research assistant in a neuroscience lab, where she learned that she was best suited to working with bigger creatures. Trained in biological anthropology, Jennifer Cramer currently studies the reproductive ecology and behavior of free-ranging monkeys. When Cramer is not teaching, she enjoys traveling for research projects and has spent time in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, The Gambia, and Ethiopia.