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Jane Goodall, Distinguished Adjunct Professor

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Department of Anthropology
Grace Ford Salvatori Hall, Room 120
3601 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Personal Web Site:
The Jane Goodall Institute

Research

Behavior of free-living chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park, Tanzania; Social behavior of the Spotted Hyena, Crocutta crocutta, Ngorongoro Conservation Area; Behavior of the Olive Baboon, Papio anubis, Gombe National Park

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Bio

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Education

1965 Ph.D., Ethnology, Cambridge University, England

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Recent Publications

1999 40 Years at Gombe. New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang.

1990 Through a Window: 30 Years Observing the Gombe Chimpanzees. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson; Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

1986 The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior. Boston: Bellknap Press of the Harvard University Press.

1971 In the Shadow of Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; London: Collins.

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Courses Taught

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Awards and Honors (Partial List)

2001 Gandhi King Peace Award for Non-Violence
2001 Master Peace Award
2001 The Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
2001 Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Medal from the Harvard Museum of Natural History
2001 Rungius Award of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, WI
2001 Graham J. Norton Award for Achievement in Increasing Community Liability
2000 International Peace Award, Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints
1999 International Award of Excellence in Conservation, Botanical Research Institute of Texas
1999 International Peace Award
1998 The Orion Society's John Hay Award
1998 National Science Board Public Service Award
1998 Disney's Animal Kingdom Eco Hero Award
1997 Royal Geographical Society / Discovery Channel Europe Award for Lifetime of Discovery
1997 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
1997 Common Wealth Award for Public Service
1997 David S. Ingells, Jr. Award for Excellence
1997 John & Alice Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
1996 The Field Museum's Award of Merit
1996 Woman of the Year
1996 William Proctor Prize for Scientific Achievement, Sigma Xi
1996 The Polar Bear Award, National Alliance for Animals
1996 The Caring Institute Award
1996 The Primate Society of Great Britain Conservation Award
1996 The Tanzanian Kilimanjaro Medal for Contribution to Wildlife Conservation
1996 The Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal

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Professional Memberships

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Academia Scientarium et Artium Europaea, Austria
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, Germany
Society of Women Geographers
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, USA
Foreign Member of the the Research Centre for Human Ethology at the Max-Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology
Explorer's Club, New York, USA
Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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