 She continued her work at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1997- 2004 as Director of the Makapansgat Palaeoanthropology Field School through the Institute of Human Origins.From 2000-2004, Reed was an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School.Reed’s work as a postdoctoral research associate with the Institute of Human Origins (1995-1997) brought her to ASU when IHO moved there in 1997.