Curriculum Vitae

Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383

+1 919 684 2143 (office) (email)

• Ph.D., Yale University, 1973


• M.Phil., Yale University, 1971


• B.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1969

Areas of Research

Evolution of primate adaptations, anthropoid adaptations,phylogenetics, paleoecology

Areas of Interest

South America
Argentina
Peru
Bolivia
Dominican Republic

Professional Experience / Employment History

• National Science Foundation
  Program Director, Physical Anthropology, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, October 02, 2006 - October 02, 2007


• Duke University Nicholas School
  Professor (Secondary), Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, 1990 - present


• Duke University
  Professor, Biological Anthropology and Anatomy, 1988 - present


• Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology, 1978 - 1988


• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology, 1973 - 1978


• Duke University Medical School
  Professor, Anatomy, 1983 - 1988


• Associate Professor, Anatomy, 1978 - 1983


• Assistant Professor, Anatomy, 1973 - 1978


• Associate, Anatomy, 1973 - 1973

Visiting Positions

Scientific Researcher, University of Montpellier II, 2004 - 2005

Scientific Researcher, Kyoto University Primate Center, 1999

Adjunct Professor, University of North Carolina, 1995 - 1998

Research Scientist, National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution), 1987

Visiting Professor, Stony Brook University, 1980

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Gordon P. Getty Laureate, LSB Leakey


• A symposium honoring Richard Kay- New views on primate adaptation and Evolution, AmericanAssociation of Physical Anthropologists, April, 2018


• Dr. Luis Federico Leloir Prize for International Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, November 17, 2014


• Keynote Speaker. XXIV Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados, May, 2009


• Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, September, 2007


• Fellow, American Academy for the Advancement of Science, AAAS


• Paleontological Recognition Award, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Bolivia, May, 1999

• Department officer, Chair, July 01, 1988 - June 30, 2004


• Director of Graduate Studies, 2012 - present


• Director of Graduate Studies, 1991-1993

  Departmental Committees/Service

• Advisor of Majors, 2013 - present


• Graduate Curriculum Committee, Comittee chair, 2013 - present


• BAA Faculty Search Committee, Chair, Search Committee for new Assistant Professor, August, 2011 - February, 2012


• BAA Faculty Search Committee, Chair, 2011-2012


• EvAnth Teaching and Research Collections Committee, committee member


• Graduate Student Advisor, 2010 - present


• Graduate Student advising, Chair, 2010-present
  Current students Jackson Spradley and Wout Salebien (EOS). Recent grads Kari Allen and Lauren Gonzales

  University Committees/Service

• First-year Course Director, Medical Gross Anatomy, 2008 - 2011


• First Year Curriculum Committee, Duke Medical School, 2008 - 2011


• Search Committee for a new chair, Evolutionary Anthropology, Chair, 2008 - 2009


• Duke Primate Center Science Research Council, 2004 - 2007


• Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Committee, Chair, 2015 - present


• Medical Center Policy Advisory Committee, 1988 - 2004


• Duke University Primate Center Internal Scientific Advisory Board, 1978 - 2007


• Council of Chairs, Natural Sciences, 1988 - 2004


• Executive Committee of the Graduate School, 1998 - 2002

  Service to the Professional Community

  Journals/Volumes Refereed

• Proceedings, Royal Society B. November 30, 2010, Proceedings, Royal Society B, 2010 - present

• Journal of Human Evolution, 1990 - present

• American Journal of Primatology, 1980-present

• Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, 1980 - present

• International Journal of Primatology, 1980 -present

• Nature Magazine, 1975 - present

• Review grants for NSF, NGS, LSB Leakey Foundation, 1973 - present

• American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1973 - present

• Science Magazine, 1973 - present

• Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2013 - 2014, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2013 - present

• National Science Foundation grant proposal review, 2006 - present

• Member, HOMINID Grant panel : NSF Physical Anthropology. 2009 - 2015, Member, HOMINID Grant panel : NSF Physical Anthropology, 2009, 2010, and 2015

• National Science Foundation, Program Director, 2007 - 2008

• Ameghiniana (Argentine Paleontological Association), Associate Editor, 2013 - present

• Anthropological Science (Japan), 2004 - present
  Associate Editor

• Associate Editor : Ameghiniana (Argentine Paleontological Association). 2000 - 2014, Associate Editor : Ameghiniana (Argentine Paleontological Association)

• Internatoional Journal of Primatology. November 30, 2010, Internatoional Journal of Primatology, 1980-1985
  Associate Editor

• American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2002 - 2006
  Associate Editor

• Journal of Human Evolution, 1993 - 1996
  Associate Editor

  Other Service

• Lectures to Indiana high school science teachers, July 15, 2010
  A series of lectures to 35 Indiana high school teachers about primate evolution on islands

  Invited Lectures:

• Using faunal richness and ecomorphology to reconstruct climate change, Austin TX, November 23, 2013


• Reconstructing Paleoecology of Miocene Mammals in Patagonia, Paläontologisches Institut und Museum Universität Zürich, Zürich Switzerland, November 16, 2011


• Reconstructing Paleoecology of Miocene Mammals in Patagonia, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier France, November 10, 2011


• The origin of anthropoid primates and platyrrhine evolution in South America, San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, May 05, 2009


• Reconstructing dietary behavior in extinct primates: Have we made any progress in the past 30 years?, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, April 04, 2007


• Adaptation and Primate Evolution, National Science Foundation, June 15, 2006


• Recent advances in our understanding of the paleogeography of South American monkeys, New York Consortium of Evolutionary Primatology, American Museum of Natural History, October 27, 2005


• Early Miocene monkeys of South America: a hitherto unrecognized basal clade of platyrrhine primates, Department of Anthrolology, University of Texas, Austin, April 5, 2005


• Paleobiology of early platyrrhine monkeys, University of Montpellier II, October 16, 2004


• Tremacebus and primate visual evolution in South America, Northwestern University, April 20, 2004


• Paleobiology of the Amphipithecidae, Inuyama, Japan, February 03, 2003


• Paleobiology of the Amphipithecidae, Yangon, Myanmar, 2002

• Ecomorphology as a Key to understanding Paleoclimates: The case of the Santa Cruz Formation (Early Miocene, Patagonia), La Plata, Argentina, 27 April 2016


• A case study in primate biogeography: the Neotropics— the roots of our current understanding., Piura, Peru, 29 January 2016

Doctoral Theses Directed

• Lauren A Gonzales, (2010 - September, 2015)


• Lauren Gonzales, Intra and interspecific variation in semicircular canal morphology in primates and implications for locomotor behavior reconstruction models, (2010 - September, 2015)


• Kari L. Allen, Endocranial volume and shape variatio iin early!anthropoid evolution, (August 20, 2009 - June 15, 2014)


• Michael D. Malinzak, Experimental analysis of the relationship between semicircular canal morphology and locomotor head rotations in primates, (September, 2007 - May 15, 2010)


• Terence R. Mitchell, The Role of Binocular Vision in Mammalian Locomotion, (September, 2001 - May, 2009)


• Jonathan M. Perry, (2002 -2008)


• E. Christopher Kirk, Evolution of the Primate Visual System, (1996 - 2003)


• Marcelo Sanchez-Villagra, Patterns of morphological change in the ontogeny and phylogeny of the marsupial skull, (1992 - 1998)


• Robert E. Ruiz, Beta-2 microglobulin exchange and the evolution of primate Beta-2 microglobulin, (1983 - 1994)


• J Michael Plavcan, Sexual dimorphism in the denntition of extant anthropoid primatres, (1984 - 1990)


• Richard H. Madden, Miocene Toxodontidae (Notoungulata, Mammalia) from Colombia, Ecuador and Chile, (1981 - 1990)


• Herbert H. Covert, Adaptations and evolutionary relationships of the Eocene family Notharctidae, (1978 - 1985)


• Brian T Shea, Growth and size allometry in the African Pongidae: cranial and postcranial analysis, (1976 - 1982)


• Wendy S. Sheine, The effect of variations in molar morphology on masticatory effectiveness and digestion of cellulose in prosimian primates, (1975 - 1979)

Publications (listed separately)

  Ph.D. Students Supervised

• Jackson P. Spradley, (2012 - present)

• Wout Salenbien, (2014 - present)
• Robin Trailor, (2014 - present)
• Randi Griffin, (2014 - present)
• Gabriel Yapuncich, (January, 2013 - present)
• Anne D Yoder, (defended June, 1992)
• Michael Granatosky, (2011 - present)
• Maxx C. Toler, (2010 - present)
• Megan P. Wilson, (defended Masters 2010)
• Callum Ross, (defended 1993)
• Victoria Campbell, (Cartmill student; left program 2005)
• Sara Doyle, (2005)