Primate Behavior and Ecology
Dr. April Binder, Director
(509) 963-2803
April.Binder@cwu.edu
Ms. Penelope Anderson, Secretary Senior
(509)-963-3201
Penelope.Anderson@cwu.edu
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Dr. Matthew Altman Email: AltmanM@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Applied ethics (including environmental ethics and animal ethics), philosophy of law, history of philosophy |
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Dr. J. Hope Amason Email: Hope.Amason@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Political economy and globalization, politics of representation, race, class, and gender, museums, memorials, and heritage sites, tourism studies, Appalachia, US South |
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Dr. Clay Arango Email: ArangoC@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Stream ecosystem ecology, nitrogen cycling, human-ecosystem interactions |
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Dr. Kathleen Barlow Email: Kathleen.Barlow@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Learning and culture, childhood, psychological anthropology, museum anthropology, symbolism, gender, art and aesthetics, material culture, regional ethnography, Melanesia, Oceania, United States |
Dr. April Binder Email: BinderA@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Hormones and enivromental changes, specifically focused on reproductive biology and analysis of biological samples in the laboratory |
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Dr. Kara Gabriel Email: GabrielK@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Conservation psychology, evolutionary psychology, visitor effects, enrichment, and human-primate interactions |
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Dr. Ralf Greenwald Email: greenwar@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Cognitive brain dynamics, event-related potentials, teaching pedagogy, general cognitive psychology, working memory, music cognition, psychology of video gaming |
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Dr. Nicole Jastremski Email: Nicole.Jastremski@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, mortuary analysis, paleopathology, taphonomy, identity formation, Ecuador |
Dr. Mary Lee Jensvold Email: jensvold@faunafoundation.org Interests & Expertise: Chimpanzee sign language studies, ape behavior, communication, culture, chimpanzee care & enrichment, non-verbal behavior |
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Dr. Jessica Mayhew Email: Jessica.Mayhew@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, primate social behavior, play behavior, primate socio-cognition, ethnoprimatology, large-bodied apes, Macaca spp. |
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J.B. Mulcahy, M.S. Email: jb@chimpsanctuarynw.org Interests & Expertise: Captive primate welfare, environmental enrichment, chimpanzee behavior Website: Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest |
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Dr. Mary Radeke Email: Mary.Radeke@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Use of facial cues in emotion and personality assessment, conversation development in young children, personality traits, technology in the classroom, primate communication, eye tracking and Facial Action Unit Coding laboratory |
Dr. Rodrigo Rentería-Valencia Email: Rodrigo.Renteria@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Environmental anthropology, linguistic anthropology, semiotics, visual anthropology, ritual and performance theory, human geography, maritime anthropology, indigenous studies. Ethnographic specialization: the Greater Southwest (including northern Mexico) |
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Dr. Lori Sheeran Email: Lori.Sheeran@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Biological anthropology, macaques and their interactions with people, primate conservation, primate social behavior, Asian primates (particularly species in China and Bhutan) |
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Dr. Lixing Sun Email: lixing@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Ecology and evolution of animal behavior (especially communication systems), primatology |
Staff and Administrators
Dr. April Binder, Program Director, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Science Building 236J,
(509) 963-2803, April.Binder@cwu.edu
Ms. Penelope Anderson, Secretary Senior, Anthropology, Dean Hall 357,
(509) 963-3201, Penelope.Anderson@cwu.edu
Dr. Holly Pinkart, Chair, Biological Sciences, Science Building 338A,
(509) 963-2710, Holly.Pinkart@cwu.edu
Dr. Patrick Lubinski, Chair, Anthropology & Museum Studies, Dean Hall 338,
(509) 963-3601,Pat.Lubinski@cwu.edu
Dr. Stephanie Stein, Chair, Psychology, Psychology Building 421,
(509) 963-2381, Stephanie.Stein@cwu.edu
Dr. Tim Englund, Dean, College of the Sciences, Dean Hall 130,
(509) 963-3678, Timothy.Englund@cwu.edu
Two new publications coming from recent graduates of the CWU Primate Behavior program. The first pub
Tracking Golden Langurs In BhutanA new publication out in the new journal Humans takes a first step of characterizing sleep site
A Global Anthro-pauseThe pandemic is certainly not over but some country borders are being reopened for foreign trav