Primate Behavior and Ecology
Dr. Jessica Mayhew, Director
(509)-963-3220
Jessica.Mayhew@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: Kant, Applied Ethics, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Art |
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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: Reproductive biology focused on hormonal control of ovarian function and development |
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Dr. Kara Gabriel Email: GabrielK@cwu.edu Interests & Expertise: Psychology, evolutionary psychology, and impacts on people in interactions with primates in both wild and captive settings |
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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. Jessica A. Mayhew, Program Director, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Dean Hall 341,
(509) 963-3220, Jessica.Mayhew@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. Lene Pedersen, Chair, Anthropology & Museum Studies, Dean Hall 356,
(509) 963-3211, Lene.Pedersen@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
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