EvoS Team
Rolf Quam
Undergraduate Director; Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology
- Neandertals
- Language Evolution
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David Sloan Wilson
Emeritus Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
- Evolution of ecological communities
- Human evolutionary biology
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Barrett Brenton
Faculty Engagement Associate
Center for Civic Engagement
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Steering Committee
Mark A. 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 L. Heywood
Professor
English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Research Interests
- Sports studies
- 20th-century literature
- feminist and critical theory
- creative writing
- Gender Studies
- Science Studies
- Third Wave Feminism
- Globalization & the Environment
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Robert A. Holahan
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies Program
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
Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- History of American education
- History of cultural battles over schooling and school reform
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Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs
Environmental Studies Program; Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolution of Past Human Populations
- Models of Cultural Transmission
- Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
- North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific
Teaching Interests
- The Dynamic Earth
- Environmental Studies Introductory Course
- Environmental Planning
- Various Upper-Division/Graduate Classes in Anthropology/Archaeology
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Ann M. Merriwether
Instructor
Psychology
Research Interests
- Sexual Socialization
- Reproductive Health Attitudes
- Body Image Development
- Healthy Sexual Behaviors and Decision Making
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Andreas D. Pape
Director, Graduate Studies/Associate Professor
Economics
Research Interests
- Microeconomic Theory
- Game Theory
- Complex Systems
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Thomas Powell
Assistant 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
Professor
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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