Throughout her graduate career, Dr. Brown has focused her research efforts on the evolutionary mechanisms that have shaped the modern human bony pelvis. Specifically she has addressed the evolutionary trade-offs between (1) bipedailty and obstetrics and (2) obstetrics and visceral support using different types of geometric morphometric analyses. Her evolutionary background has provided a unique perspective on the clinical topic of Pelvic Floor Disorders (PFDs), and how these clinical issues are rooted in the various modifications of the pelvis and pelvic floor across human evolutionary history