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CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Leyla Kutluca MA in prog Intersexual relations of adult blue monkeys |
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Samantha Colah MA in prog (topic TBD) |
GRADUATE
STUDENT ALUMNI
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Peter Fashing PhD 1999 The Behavioral
Ecology of an African Colobine Monkey: Diet, Range Use, and Patterns of
Intergroup Aggression in Eastern Black and White Colobus Monkeys (Colobus
guereza) |
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Joel
Mwangi Gathua PhD 1999
Intraspecific
Variation in Foraging Patterns of Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Larissa Swedell PhD 2000 Social Behavior
and Reproductive Strategies of Female Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamadryas
hamadryas) in Ethiopia |
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Karen Pazol PhD 2001 (University of
Pennsylvania) Social, Ecological, and Endocrine Influences on Remale Relationships in Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus
mitis stuhlmanni) |
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James Warfield PhD 2003 Attachment Bonds And Behavior In Free-Ranging Male
Infant Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta): Species-Typical Patterns And Individual Differences In
Secure Base Use And Security |
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Sasimar
Sangchantr PhD 2003 Social Organization and Ecology of Mentawai Leaf Monkeys (Presbytis
potenziani) |
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Paul
Buzzard PhD
2004 Interspecific
Competition among Cercopithecus campbelli, C. petaurista
and C. diana at Tai Forest, Cote
d'Ivoire |
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Shahrina Chowdhury MA 2004 Life History of Female Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus
mitis stuhlmanni) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Stefan
Ekernas MA 2005 Proximate Reasons for Natal Dispersal in
Blue Monkeys |
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Christos Mammides
MA 2006 The Effects of
Human Disturbance and Food Supply on the Population Densities of Three
Primate Species in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Jenna Lawrence PhD 2007 Understanding the
Pair Bond in Brown Titi Monkeys (Callicebus brunneus): Male and Female
Reproductive Interests |
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Jeffrey
Hatcher
PhD 2007 Relating Paternity and Population Genetics in Blue Monkeys, Cercopithecus
mitis stuhlmanni: Empirical Results and
Strategies for Obtaining Them |
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Steffen
Foerster PhD
2009 Feeding ecology, social behavior and physiological responses to
stressors in blue and Sykes' monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni and C. m. albogularis) |
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Leah Card MA 2010 Assessing fruit
availability for a generalist frugivore, the blue monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) in the Kakamega
Forest, Kenya |
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Keren Klass MA 2010 Dominance and
agonism in wild blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni)
in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Emily Miller MA 2010 Mixed-species
associations of blue monkeys and black-and-white colobus monkeys in the
Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Michelle Brown PhD 2011 Intergroup
encounters in grey-cheeked mangabeys (Lophocebus
albigena) and redtail monkeys (Cercopithecus
ascanius): form and function |
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Annie Margaret Dean MA 2012 Short-term
grooming reciprocity in blue monkeys |
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James Fuller PhD 2013 Diversity of form,
content, and function in the vocal signals of adult male blue monkeys (Cercopithecus
mitis stuhlmanni): an evolutionary approach to
understanding a signal repertoire. |
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Su-Jen Roberts PhD 2014 Intrasexual
competition and reproduction in wild blue monkeys |
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Allison Roth
MA 2015
Effects
of group size and contest location on the outcome and intensity of intergroup
contests in wild blue monkeys |
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Lu Gao MA 2017 Understanding dynamic male numbers and behavior in blue monkey groups |
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Nicole Thompson PhD 2018 The benefits of social ties over the life cycle in blue monkeys |
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Maressa Takahashi PhD 2018 The nutritional ecology of adult female blue monkeys in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Alex Procton MA 2018 Within-group social cohesion and between-group aggression in blue monkeys |
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Jen Tinsman PhD 2020 Geospatial and genomic tools for conserving the Critically Endangered blue-eyed black lemur (Eulemur flavifrons) and the Endangered black lemur (E. macaco) |
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Rachel Donabedian MA 2020 Dominance rank acquisition in a primate with low aggression and coalition rates |
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Holly Fuong PhD 2021
Social
animals detecting danger: how social relations influence antipredator
behavior in a noisy forest |
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Lilah Sciaky MA 2023 Social
drivers of variation in age at first reproduction in female blue monkeys |
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Rory Wakeford MA 2024 Group fission in
blue monkeys: ecological drivers and social consequences |
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Amanda Johnston PhD 2025 Population genomics, ecology and conservation biology of golden monkeys in Rwanda |
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Dillon Davey MA 2025 Environmental drivers of seasonal reproduction in
blue monkeys |
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POST-DOCTORAL
ALUMNAE
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Eleni Nikitopoulos, now Assistant Professor and Associate Dean, New York Institute of Technology |
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Kate Detwiler, now Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University |
UNDERGRADUATE
ALUMNI
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Alison Forrestel, 2000, Long-term changes in vegetation structure in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Chrissy Scully, 2001, Habitat disturbance and vegetation structure in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Peter Macchia, 2002, Insight into the function of boom calls in wild blue monkeys: a behavioral and sound analysis |
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Katie Ross, 2002, Group size and competition in blue monkeys |
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Scott Simpson, 2005, Kinship bias in the social behavior of adult female blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni) in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya |
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Sona Mason, 2006, Scramble competition in a social mammal: group size, travel costs and social hierarchies in blue monkeys |
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Jessica Nepom, 2008, Effects of dominance rank on feeding behavior in African blue monkeys |
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Michael Sheehan, 2008 Univ. of Pennsylvania, Male and female juvenile blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) differ in amount but not patterns of social behavior |
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Kaitlyn Gaynor, 2009, Anti-predator and social monitoring functions of vigilance behavior in blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) |
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Elizabeth McGovern, 2011 Barnard College, With a little help from my friends: changes in social behavior in female blue monkeys following major life events |
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Nathan Bailey, 2011, Contest competition within a tree crown: vertical stratification of feeding by blue monkey females (Cercopithecus mitis) |
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Vicky Du, 2011, Self-directed behaviors as measures of anxiety in blue monkeys |
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Frances Hardy, 2012, Factors influencing infant survival in wild blue monkeys |
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Tawni Goodman, 2012, Group size and time budgets in wild blue monkeys |
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Taylor Minich, 2016, Paternal kin recognition in blue monkeys |
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Darcy Cassidy, 2016 Barnard College, Snake recognition in blue monkeys |
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Rachel Bell, 2016, Variation in activity budgets of blue monkey females |
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Carlos Martinez, 2017, The time course of infant weaning in blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni): alternative measures and factors underlying variation |
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Sofia Schembari, 2019, Reluctant males: why blue monkey males reject female advances |
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Natalia Arguelles, 2021, Understanding
variation in rates of injury and poor health in wild blue monkeys |
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Emma Gometz, 2021,
What
predicts daytime births in blue monkeys, and how does hour of birth affect
survivorship? |
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Anne Beechler, 2025,
Female social integration strategies in a
female-philopatric species |
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Tatem Kegley, 2026, Infant independence: assessment and variation in the time
course |
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Corey Wong, 2027, Variation in female-female aggression |