Education
2008-present University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA–
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology – G. G. Simpson Fellow
2007-2008 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA– Department
of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology – Postdoctoral Fellow
2006-2007 Edinburgh University, UK – Institute of Evolutionary
Biology – Postdoctoral Fellow
2000-2006 Duke University, Durham, NC, USA – Biology –
Ph.D.
1998-2000 Auburn University, AL, USA – Zoology – M.Sc.
1993-1997 Wittenberg University, OH USA – Biology – B.A.
Honors
and Awards
Invitation to Young Investigator Seminar, Princeton University, 2008
Invitation to Third Annual Young Scientists’ Symposium, University of Michigan, 2007
National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship,
2006-8
Biology Department Grant-in-Aid, Duke University, 2005
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Behavioral Processes
Panel, 2004-5
American Museum of Natural History Frank M. Chapman Award, 2004
Animal Behaviour Society Grant, 2004
Marcia Brady Tucker AOU Travel Award
Duke University Biology Department Fellowship, 2003
Sigma Xi, Grant-in-Aid of Research, 2003
Biology Department Grant-in-Aid, Duke University, 2003
Sally Hughes Schrader Travel Award, 2003
Marcia Brady Tucker AOU Travel Award, 2003
Kenneth Otis Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Auburn University,
2000
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Research Grant,
2000
Graduate Student Research Grant, Auburn University, 1999
Emmet Bodenberg Award for Excellence in Environmental Studies,
Wittenberg University, 1996
Undergraduate Research Grant, Wittenberg University, 1995
Wittenberg University Scholar Award, 1993-7
Professional
Service and Membership
Associate Editor for Condor: International Journal of Ornithology
Miller Award Committee (2008-2010) and Student Awards Committee (2008), Cooper Ornithological Society
Reviewer for:
NSF grant proposals: Population and Evolutionary Biology Cluster, Behavioral Processes Cluster, Animal Behavior (3), CAREER award (2), Organism-Environment Interactions (2)
Meeting Abstracts: International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Journals: Evolution (4), American Naturalist (2), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B (5), Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology Letters, Oikos, Behavioral Ecology (6), Evolutionary Ecology (3), BMC Ecology, Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Condor (2), Ibis
Membership in Professional Societies (# of years): Society for the Study of Evolution (7), European Society for Evolutionary Biology (7), American Society of Naturalists (5), Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (9), American Ornithologists’ Union (7), Cooper Ornithological Society (1)
Teaching
Experience (yr / # of students)
Instructor, University of Arizona
Ornithology (2009 / 30)
Supervisor, Harvard University
Undergraduate research project, Robert Kirkham: Genetic constraints on the evolution of sexually selected plumage ornamentation
Supervisor, Edinburgh University
M.Sc. project, Louise Dear: Quantitative genetics of body size in a wild bird population
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Duke University
BIO 46: AIDS and other emerging diseases (2002-2005 / 300)
BIO 118: Genetics/Cell Biology (2001 / 60)
BIO 151: Principles in Animal Physiology (2001 / 15)
BIO 25: Introductory Biology (2000 / 12)
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Auburn University
ZY 251: Human Physiology (1999-2000 / 35)
ZY 250: Human Anatomy (1998-1999 / 70-80)
Guest Lecturer
BIO 46: AIDS and other emerging diseases, Topic: Evolution and infectious
disease (2004/280)
ZY 250: Human Anatomy, 3 lectures (1999 / 125)
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