Tenured or tenure-track positions held by former graduate students advised by Museum curators

 

BRIAN S. ARBOGAST (M.S. 1996); professor, Department of Biology, Humboldt State University

KEITH A. ARNOLD (Ph. D. 1966); professor, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University

EUGENE C. BECKHAM (Ph.D. 1983);Professor and Chairman, Department of Biological Sciences, Midland University, Michigan

LAURENCE C. BINFORD (Ph. D. 1968); retired; formerly Curator of Birds, California Academy of Sciences

R. W. BOWKER (M.S. 1977); professor, Department of Biology, Alma College, Michigan

PHILLIP L. BRUNER (M.S. 1974); professor, Division of Biology, Brigham Young University-Hawaii

DONALD W. BUDEN (Ph. D. 1979); professor, College of Micronesia

KEVIN J. BURNS (M.S. 1991); professor, Dept. Biology, San Diego State University

WILLIAM H. BUSKIRK (M.S. 1968); professor, Department of Biology, Earlham College

J. P. CALDWELL. (M.S. 1967); Curator of Amphibians, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

ANGELO P. CAPPARELLA (Ph. D. 1987); professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University

LEDA M. CASTRO (M.S. 1986); professor, Department of Zoology, National University of Costa Rica

R. TERRY CHESSER (Ph.D. 1995); Curator and Research Leader of the Australian National Wildlife Collection, Canberra

JOEL L. CRACRAFT (M.S. 1966); curator of birds, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History

JAMES W. DEMASTES (Ph.D. 1996); professor, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa

WALTER W. DIMMICK (Ph.D. 1983); curator of fishes, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas

TERRY J. DONALDSON (Ph.D.1988); Senior Research Scientist, University of Guam Marine Laboratory

DARREL R. FROST (M.S. 1978); curator of herpetology, American Museum of Natural History

CHARLES M. FUGLER (M.S. 1953); deceased, formerly professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

ALFRED L. GARDNER (Ph.D. 1970); curator of mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

MARY C. GARVIN (M.S. 1989); professor, Biology Department, Oberlin College

SIDNEY A. GAUTHREAUX (Ph. D. 1969); professor, Department of Zoology, Clemson University

GARY R. GRAVES (M.S. 1980); curator of birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

SHANNON J. HACKETT (Ph.D 1992); curator of birds, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

JAMES J. HEBRARD (M.S. 1969); professor, Department of Zoology, University of Nairobi

P. J. HOLLANDER. (M.S. 1968); professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Iowa State University

JAMES H. HUNT (M.S. 1969); professor, Department of Biology, University of Missouri at St. Louis

E. D. KEISER, JR. (Ph. D. 1967); professor, Department of Biology, University of Mississippi

ROBERT S. KENNEDY (Ph. D. 1977); curator, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History

F. ALLAN HAYSE (M.S. 1965); professor, Department of Biology, Samford University, Birmingham

FRANCES C. JAMES (M.S. 1955); professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University

DOUGLAS A. LANCASTER (Ph. D. 1960); retired; formerly director, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

SCOTT M. LANYON (Ph. D. 1985); director, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota

WILLIAM H. LeGRANDE (M.S. 1974); professor and Curator of Fishes, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

PETER P. MARRA (M.S. 1989); Terrestrial Animal Ecologist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

DAVID A. MCCLELLAN (Ph.D. 1999); professor, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

NANCY D. MONCRIEF (Ph.D. 1987); curator of mammals, Virginia Museum of Natural History

BURT L. MONROE, JR. (Ph. D. 1965); deceased, formerly professor, Department of Biology, University of Louisville

DOUGLASS H. MORSE (Ph. D. 1965); professor, Division of Biology & Medicine, Brown University

DAVID L. PEARSON (M.S. 1969); professor, Department of Zoology, Arizona State University

FRANCIS J. ROLLE (M.S. 1962); deceased; formerly, professor, University of Puerto Rico

KENNETH V. ROSENBERG (Ph.D. 1990); Senior Research Scientist, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

STEPHEN M. RUSSELL (Ph.D. 1962); professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona

JULIA T. SANKEY (Ph.D. 1998); professor, Museum of Geology and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

PETER E. SCOTT (Ph.D. 1988); professor, Department of Biology, Indiana State University

THERESA A. SPRADLING (PH.D.); professor, Department of Biology, University of Northern Iowa

ETHAN J. TEMELES (M.S. 1980); professor, Department of Biology, Amherst College

J. P. R. THOMAS (Ph.D. 1976); professor, Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico

A. VARKEY (Ph.D. 1973); professor, Department of Biology, Liberty University, Virginia

STEWART L. WARTER (Ph.D. 1965); professor, Department of Biology, California State University, Long Beach

K. L. WILLIAMS. (Ph.D. 1970); professor, Department of Biology, Northwestern State University

LARRY D. WILSON (Ph.D. 1968); professor, Department of Biology, Miami-Dade Community College

EDWIN O. WILLIS (M.S. 1959); professor, Departamento. de Zoologia, Universidad Estadual, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Other research or technical positions

 

E. C. BLANCHER (M.S. 1974); program leader, Florida Department of Natural Resources

JUDITH M. CHUPASKO (M.S. 1986); collection manager, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

ALBERT DOUCETTE (Ph.D. 1985); Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Southeastern Louisiana University

JOHN A. GERWIN (M.S. 1987); collections manager, North Carolina Museum of Natural History

KODI R. JEFFERY (M.S.,1991); Education Coordinator, Museum of Natural History, University of Texas, El Paso

JEREMEY J. KIRCHMAN (M.S. 1997); Manager, Laboratory of Molecular Systematics, Field Museum of Natural History

J. W. KORTH (M.S. 1983); biologist, Washington Department of Fish & Game

ANDREW W. KRATTER (Ph.D. 1995); collections manager, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

ROBIN LAWSON. (Ph.D. 1985); Department Head, Osher Laboratory for Molecular Systematics, California Academy of Sciences

MANUEL MARÍN A. (Ph.D. 1998); research associate, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

DAVID L. REED (M.S. 1994, Ph.D. 2000);NSF postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biology, University of Utah

MARK B. ROBBINS (M.S. 1982); collections manager, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas

JAMES A. RODGERS (M.S. 1974); research biologist, Florida Department of Natural Resources

THOMAS S. SCHULENBERG (M.S. 1982); Conservation Zoologist, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

K. SEOK. (M.S. 1989): senior administrator, Department of Fisheries, Government of South Korea

BRIAN E. SMITH (M.S. 1985); U. S. Geological Survey/Biological Research Division, Jamestown, North Dakota

J. CLINT SMITH, (M.S.,1983); technician, U.S. Forest Service

M. MARK SWAN (M.S. 1987); biologist, Louisiana Nature Conservancy

KELLY SWING (Ph.D. 1992); Director, Tipitini Biological Field Station, Ecuador

JARED VERNER (M.S. 1959); research biologist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

DAVID A. WIEDENFELD (M.S. 1983); Director of Research, Sutton Avian Research Center

 

Presidencies of national scientific societies, past and present

SIDNEY A. GAUTHREAUX, Animal Behavior Society
FRANCES C. JAMES, American Ornithologists' Union
BURT L. MONROE, JR., American Ornithologists' Union
JARED VERNER, Cooper Ornithological Society

 

Recent M.S. recipients currently in prestigious doctoral programs:

ANGELA CHAPMAN (M.S. 1991), University of Queensland, Australia
ELIZABETH R. LOOS (M.S. 1999), University of Louisiana-Lafayette
CURTIS A. MARANTZ (M.S. 1992), University Massachusetts
T. SCOTT SILLETT (M.S. 1992), Dartmouth College