EVOS Faculty

EvoS Team

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Rolf Quam

Director

Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)

Professor/Chair

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Paleoanthropology
  • Neandertals
  • Language Evolution
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Susan Ryan

Coordinator

Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)


Steering Committee

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Barrett Brenton, PhD

Associate Director, Community-Engaged Learning and Research

Center for Community Engagement
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Mark Blumler

Associate Professor

Geography

Research Interests

  • Biogeography
  • Plant Ecology
  • Environmental History
  • Energy and Society
  • Weed Ecology and Evolution
  • Ethic Cultural Trajectories
  • Agricultural Origins
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Leslie Heywood

Professor

Department of English

Research Interests

  • Creative nonfiction and poetry of place
  • Science Communication/AI, Environmental Humanities/Animal Studies
  • Gender and Sport Studies
  • Trauma and Embodiment

Teaching Interests

  • Creative Writing
  • Health Humanities
  • Environmental Humanities and Animal Studies
  • Sustainability
  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Embodiment
  • Trauma
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Robert Holahan

Associate Professor

Political Science

Faculty-in-Residence - DiRT

Residential Life

Research Interests

  • Environmental Policy
  • Political Science and Sustainability

Teaching Interests

  • Introduction to Environmental Policy
  • Environmental Policy Analysis
  • Sustainability and Urban Policy
  • Environmental Impact Statements
  • American Public Policy
  • Global Environmental Politics
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Adam Laats

Distinguished Professor

CCPA Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership

Research Interests

  • History of American education
  • Cultural battles over schooling and school reform
  • Examination of campaigns of conservative evangelical Protestants in both K-12 and higher education
  • History of creation/evolution debates
  • Evolution of conservative thinking about K-12 education
  • Examining the first systematic attempt at urban school reform in American history
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Carl Lipo

Associate Dean for Research and Programs

Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Professor

Anthropology

Research Interests

  • Island Archaeology (especially Rapa Nui/Easter Island)
  • Cultural Transmission and Evolutionary Archaeology
  • Remote Sensing, UAV Photogrammetry, and GIS
  • Luminescence Dating and Geophysical Methods
  • Climate Change Impacts on Sustainability in Island Environments
  • Ceramic Technology and Chronology in North America

Teaching Interests

  • Archaeological Laboratory Methods
  • Archaeological Remote Sensing
  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Humans and the Environment
  • Eastern North American Prehistory
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Ann Merriwether

Instructor

Psychology

Research Interests

  • Sexual Socialization
  • Reproductive Health Attitudes
  • Body Image Development
  • Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making
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Andreas Pape

Associate Professor

Economics

Research Interests

  • Microeconomic Theory
  • Game Theory
  • Complex Systems
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Thomas Powell

Associate Professor

Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Ecological speciation
  • Adaptation to environmental change
  • Coevolution
  • Evolution and physiology of life history timing in insects
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Hiroki Sayama

SUNY Distinguished Professor, School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

  • Complex systems
  • Complex dynamical networks
  • Human and social dynamics
  • Artificial life/chemistry
  • Interactive systems
  • Complex systems education
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David Sloan Wilson

Professor Emeritus

Biological Sciences

Research Interests

  • Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
  • Evolution of ecological communities
  • Human evolutionary biology
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