Faculty of Resident Instruction

Elizabeth A. Connor, Professor and Chair of Department, B.S., St. Lawrence, 1977; Ph.D., Vermont, 1982.

Patricia Wadsworth, Professor, Associate Chair of Department and Honors Coordinator, B.S., St. Lawrence, 1977; Ph.D., Dartmouth, 1983.

Bruce E. Byers, Associate Professor and Chief Undergraduate Advisor, B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987; Ph.D., 1994.

Lynn Adler, Professor, B.S., Brown University, 1993; Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2000

R. Craig Albertson, Associate Professor, B.S., University of New Hampshire, 1996; Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 2002

Peter Alpert, Professor, B.A., Oxford, 1974; M.A., Harvard, 1977; Ph.D., 1982.

Courtney Babbitt, Assistant Professor, B.A., Columbia University, 1999; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005.

Madelaine Bartlett, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of the Witwatersrand, 2004; Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 2010.

Tobias Baskin, Professor, B.Sc., Yale, 1980; Ph.D., Stanford, 1986.

Jeffrey Blanchard, Associate Professor, B.S., Biology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1987; Ph.D., Botany, University of Georgia, 1995

Steven D. Brewer, Assistant Professor, B.S., Alma College, Michigan, 1985; M.S./Ph.D., Michigan, 1996.

Ana L. Caicedo, Associate Professor, B.S., Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 1996; Ph.D., North Carolina State, 2006.

Gerald B. Downes, Associate Professor, B.S., Johnson C. Smith, 1992; Ph.D., Washington at St. Louis, 1999.

Laura Francis, Senior Lecturer, B.A., University of Chicago, 2001; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2008.

Lillian Fritz-Laylin, Assistant Professor, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2003; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2010.

Alexander Gerson, Assistant Professor, B.S., State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2004; Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 2012

Samuel P. Hazen, Associate Professor, B.S., Arizona, 1994; M.S, Michigan State, 1996; Ph.D., 2000.

Christiane Healey, Lecturer, Vordiplom, Universität Göttingen, 1996; Diplom, Universität Würzburg, 2000; Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006.

Peter Houlihan,  Senior Lecturer II, B.A., Biology and Environmental Studies, Alfred University, 1985; M.S., Wildlife Conservation, SUNY, School of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1989; Ph.D., Zoology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999.

Duncan J. Irschick, Professor, B.S., California at Davis, 1991; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2001.

Elizabeth Jakob, Professor, B.S., Cornell University, 1983; Ph.D., University of California Davis, 1989

Jody Jellison, Professor, B.S., University of New Hampshire, 1977; M.S., Oregon State University, 1980; Ph.D. Oregon State University, 1983.

Abigail M. Jensen, Associate Professor, B.A., California at San Diego, 1988; Ph.D., Wisconsin at Madison, 1992.

Rolf O. Karlstrom, Professor, B.S., Northern Arizona, 1985; Ph.D., Utah, 1993.

Paul S. Katz, Professor, B.A., Northwestern University, 1982; M.S. Northwestern University  1982; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1989.

Jeffrey D. Laney, Senior Lecturer II, B.S., Florida State University, 1989; M.S. Yale University, 1994; Ph.D., Yale University, 1995.

Geng-lin Li, Assistant Professor, B.S., Beijing Normal University, 1998; Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004.

Skye Long, Lecturer, B.S., Summa Cum Laude University of Southern Maine 2008; Ph.D., Organismic & Evolutionary Biology University of Massachusetts Amherst 2016.

Kari Loomis, Lecturer, B.S. Clemson University, 1998; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2008.

Thomas Maresca, Associate Professor, B.S. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999; Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 2005.

Michele Markstein, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Texas at Austin, 1991; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003.

Rosa Moscarella, Lecturer, Licentiate in Biology, Universidad Simon Bolivar, 1997; Magister in Biology Sciences, Universidad Simon Bolivar, 2001; Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2011

Benjamin Normark, Professor, B.A., Yale University, 1985; Ph.D., Cornell University, 1994.

Akiko Okusu, Lecturer, B.A., Hamilton College, 1996; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003

Randall W. Phillis, Associate Professor, B.A., Miami (Ohio), 1981; Ph.D., Indiana, 1986.

Jeffrey Podos, Professor, B.A., Franklin and Marshall, 1989; Ph.D., Duke, 1996.

Adam Porter, Associate Professor, B.S., Michigan State University, 1983; M.A., University of California, Davis, 1986; Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1989.

Alan Richmond, Senior Lecturer II, B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1987; M.S., Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1990; M.S., Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1995; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999.

Margaret Riley, Professor, B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1981; M.S., 1983; Ph.D., Harvard, 1988.

Caleb Rounds, Lecturer, B.A., Hamilton College, 1992; M.A., Brown University, 1995; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007.

Lawrence M. Schwartz, Isenberg Professor, B.A., Northwestern, 1976; Ph.D., Washington, 1982.

Tristram Seidler, Ext. Assistant Professor, B.A., University of California Santa Cruz, 1993; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003.

Elena Vazey, Assistant Professor, B.S., University of Auckland, 2004; Ph.D., University of Auckland, 2009

Elsbeth L. Walker, Professor, A.B., Mount Holyoke, 1984; Ph.D., Rockefeller, 1989.

Caralyn Zehnder, Lecturer, B.S. (honors) Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 1999; Ph.D. Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, 2006

R. Thomas Zoeller, Professor, B.S., Indiana, 1977; M.A., Oregon State, 1979; Ph.D., 1983.