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Department of Anthropology
Von KleinSmid Center, Room 349
3518 Trousdale Pkwy.
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone: (213) 740-1918
E-mail: stanford@rcf.usc.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~stanford/d/
Research
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Bio
Craig Stanford is specialist in the fields of great ape behavior and human origins. He is Chair of Anthropology and Co-Director of the Jane Goodall Reserch Center at the University of Southern California. He has conducted field studies of primates in India, Bangladesh, Peru, Tanzania and Uganda, and is best know for his groundbreakingwork on the meat-eating behavior of wild chimpanzees, conducted in collaboration with Dr. Jane Goodall. He currently directs the Bwindi Impenetrable Great Ape Project, a study of mountain gorillas and chimpanzees in Uganda that has a strong conservation component. His research has been supported by numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Geographic Society, among others. Dr. Stanford is the author of nearly 100 technical and popular scientific papers and essays and five books, including Chimpanzee and Red Colobus (1998, Harvard University Press) and The Hunting Apes (1999, Princeton U. Press). His most recent book is Significant Others: The Ape-Human Contiuum and the Quest for Human Nature (Basic Books, 2001).
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Education
Ph.D. 1990, University of California, Berkeley,
Department of Anthropology. Attended 1984-89.
M.A. Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology.
B.A. Drew University. Anthropology/Zoology major,
with honors in Anthropology.
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Recent Publications
2001 Stanford, C.B. and H.T. Bunn (editors). Meat-eating and Human Evolution. Oxford University Press.
2001 Stanford, C. Significant Others: the Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature. Basic Books.
1999 Stanford, C.B. The Hunting Apes: Meat-eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Princeton University Press. Paperback edition 2001; also printed in five foreign languages.
1998 Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey. Harvard University Press. Paperback edition 2001.
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Courses Taught
Primate Social Behavior
Primate Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (graduate level)
Evolution of Primate Intelligence (graduate level)
Human Evolutionary Ecology
Human Origins
Evolutionary Medicine
Evolution of Human Behavior
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
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Awards and Honors
Faculty Fellow, U.S.C. Center for Excellence in Teaching, 2000-2003.
USC General Education Teaching Award, 2000-2001.
Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2000. For the books Chimpanzee and Red Colobus and The Hunting Apes.
Phi Kappa Phi, Faculty advisory board. 2000-present.
American Association of Publishers. Runnerup, best biological science book of 1998 (Chimpanzee and Red Colobus).
University of Southern California Raubenheimer Young Faculty Award, 1996.
For research and teaching achievement.
Mortarboards campus speaker, 1996.
Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Anthropology, U.C. Berkeley, 1985-86.
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Professional Memberships
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1984 - present
Animal Behavior Society, 1976-78, 1989 - present
International Society of Primatologists, 1989 - present
American Society of Primatologists, 1994 - present
American Anthropological Association, 1984 - 1999
Editorial Board, Annual Editions in Physical Anthropology, 2000 - present
Editorial Board, Paleoanthropology, 2001-present
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