Craig Stanford
Encyclopedia
Craig Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology and Co-Director of the USC Jane Goodall Research Center
at the University of Southern California
. He is known for his field studies of apes, monkeys and other tropical animals, and has published more than 130 scientific papers and 15 books on the subject. He is best known for his detailed field study of the predator-prey ecology of chimpanzees and the animals they hunt in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, and for his long term study of the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
, Uganda.
, his M.A. in anthropology at Rutgers University
, and his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
in 1990. He taught at the University of Michigan
and joined the University of Southern California
in 1992. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Wenner Gren Foundation, Leakey Foundation, among others. Stanford is an avid fan of the New York Yankees
.
USC Jane Goodall Research Center
The USC Jane Goodall Research Center is a part of the department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. It is co-directed by professors of anthropology Craig Stanford, Chris Boehm, Nayuta Yamashita, and Roberto Delgado....
at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. He is known for his field studies of apes, monkeys and other tropical animals, and has published more than 130 scientific papers and 15 books on the subject. He is best known for his detailed field study of the predator-prey ecology of chimpanzees and the animals they hunt in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania, and for his long term study of the behavior and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is located in southwestern Uganda in East Africa. The park is part of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and is situated along the Democratic Republic of Congo border next to the Virunga National Park and on the edge of the western Great Rift Valley...
, Uganda.
Background
Stanford received his B.A. in anthropology and zoology at Drew UniversityDrew University
Drew University is a private university located in Madison, New Jersey.Originally established as the Drew Theological Seminary in 1867, the university later expanded to include an undergraduate liberal arts college in 1928 and commenced a program of graduate studies in 1955...
, his M.A. in anthropology at Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, and his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
in 1990. He taught at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
and joined the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
in 1992. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Wenner Gren Foundation, Leakey Foundation, among others. Stanford is an avid fan of the New York Yankees
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
.
Selected bibliography
"Planet Without Apes," forthcoming 2012- The Last Tortoise, 2010
- Beautiful Minds, 2008 (with Maddalena Bearzi)
- Apes of the Impenetrable Forest, 2007
- Exploring Biological Anthropology, 2007 (with John Allen and Susan Antón)
- Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind, 2005 (with John Allen and Susan Antón)
- Upright : The Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human, 2003
- Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature, 2001
- The Hunting Apes : Meat Eating and the Origins of Human Behavior, 1999
- Meat-Eating and Human Evolution, 2001 (with co-editor H. Bunn)
- Chimpanzee and Red Colobus : The Ecology of Predator and Prey, 1998