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Curriculum Vitae

Leslie J. Digby

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Biological Anthropology and Anatomy
Box 90383
Durham, NC 27708 		+1 919 660 7398 (office)
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Education

PhDUniversity of California, Davis1994
M.A.University of California, Davis1988
BAUniversity of California, San Diego1986
Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, 2006 - present
Research Associate, Duke University Primate Center, 1997 - present
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, 1994 - present
American River College
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, 1993
University of California, Davis
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, 1987 - 1994
University of California, San Diego
Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, 1985 - 1986
Recent Grant Support

  • A new method for determining four dimensional home ranges in primates, 2007/07-2008/06.      
  • Undergraduate Research Initiative, Duke Arts and Sciences, 2005/09-2008/06.      
  • Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Duke Arts and Sciences, 2006/07-2007/06.      
  • Howard Hughes Research Fellows Program, Howard Hughes Foundation, 2006/06-2006/07.      
  • Arts and Sciences Annual Research Grant, Arts and Sciences Council, 2005/07-2006/06.      
  • Howard Hughes Research Fellows Program, 2005/06-2006/06.      
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Keynote Speaker "What can animal behavior tell us about the nature of cooperation and competition?, Duke University, 2007 [html]  
Murderous Marmosets: The role of competition in cooperatively breeding primates., University of Pennsylvania, 2007  
Competition in Cooperative Breeding Species, Howard Hughes Pre-College Program, July, 2006  
"There and Back Again: Two Researchers' Tales of Marmoset Reproductive Strategies in the Field and in the Lab", Developmental Psychology Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, 27 December 2005  
"Is Infanticide by Females Unique to the Common Marmoset? Implications for how Callitrichines Balance Cooperation and Competition", American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, April, 2005  
"There and Back Again: Two Researcher's Tales of Marmoset Reproductive Strategies in the Field and in the Lab", BEAST (BAA discussion group), November 2004  
Howard Hughes Pre-College Program, Duke University. “So you want to be Jane Goodall?: the ups and downs of watching primates in the wild”, July 2004  
"There and Back Again: Two Researcher's Tales of Marmoset Reproductive Strategies in the Field and in the Lab", Southern Californiat Primate Research Forum, November 4, 2004  
Sigma Xi Seminar Series, Research Triangle Park. “Murderous Monkeys: Infanticide as a Reproductive Strategy”, 2002  
Department of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy, Duke University. “Murderous Marmosets?: Infanticide as an extreme form of female reproductive competition.”, 1999  
Department of Anthropology, SUNY Stony Brook. “Murderous Marmosets?: Infanticide as an extreme form of female reproductive competition.”, 1998  
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder. “Murderous Marmoset Moms: Infanticide as a form of female reproductive competition.”, 1998  
Department of Biology, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil. “Cuidado de Prole e Infanticidio: Competiçâo Reproductivo das Femêas de Sagüi e Lemures.”, 1997  
Duke Biology Undergraduate Seminar Series, Duke University, “Murderous Marmoset Moms: Infanticide as a form of female reproductive competition.”, 1997  
Co-organizer, Symposium on "Variation in the Breeding Systems of Marmosets and Tamarins: Ecology, Phylogeny and Mechanism.", Joint Meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Primatological Society, Madison, WI, USA, 1996  
Estrategias Reprodutivas das Fêmeas numa População de Sagüi Comum, Department of Psychology, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil, 1995  
Female Reproductive Competition in Polygynous Groups of Common Marmosets, Department of Biological Anthropology & Anatomy, Duke University, 1995  
Female Reproductive Competition in Polygynous Groups of Wild Common Marmosets, Wisconsin Regional Primate Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995  
Infanticide and Female Reproductive Competition in Polygynous Groups of Common Marmosets, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1995  
Infant Care & Infanticide in Marmosets, Invited Participant & Presenter, Human and Animal Mating Systems Workshop (NSF Research Training Grant University of California, Davis)., 1994  
Infant Care and Infanticide in Polygynous Groups of Common Marmosets, National Zoological Park, Washington D.C., 1993  
"Relatório Preliminar: Comportamento e Ecologia do Sagüi Comum (Callithrix. jacchus) da Reserva de Nísia Floresta - RN (EFLEX-IBAMA), Sub-Department of Psychobiology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil, 1992  
Invited Participant, Symposium on “Callitrichid Social Structure and Mating Systems: Evidence from Field Studies”, XIVth Congress of the Int. Primatological Society, Strasbourg, France, 1992  
Invited Participant, Symposium on “The Intruder Study Model in Primate Research, ”, XIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Strasbourg, France, 1992  
Estratégias Reprodutivas e Organização Social numa População Silvestre do Sagüi Comum (Callithrix jacchus), Sub-Department of Psychobiology, UFRN, Brazil, 1991  
Professional Affiliations

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Society of Physical Anthropologists 
American Society of Primatologists 
Animal Behavior Society 
International Primatological Society 
Sigma Xi
Courses Taught At Duke University

Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2008/08/12