Saving the World's Most Peaceful Primates

Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating from Swarthmore College, she received her MA and her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University.  She is an international authority on the endangered northern muriqui monkey, which she has been studying in the Brazilian Atlantic forest since 1982. Her pioneering, long-term field research has been critical to conservation efforts on behalf of this species and has been influential in broadening comparative perspectives on primate behavioral and ecological diversity. In addition to NAS, she is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Association for the Advancement of Science. She holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Chicago, and Distinguished Primatologist Awards from the American Society of Primatology and the Midwestern Primate Interest Group.  She has received research, teaching, and service awards from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lifetime Honorary Memberships from the Brazilian Primatological Society and the Latin American Primatological Society, and Honorary Citizenship from the city of Caratinga, in Minas Gerais, Brazil. She has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications, in addition to co-authored and edited volumes and two single-authored books, Faces in the Forest: The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil and Primate Behavioral Ecology, which will be out in its 6th edition in early 2021. She is currently the Secretary of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the President of the International Primatological Society.

This event is sponsored by UGA Department of Anthropology and UGA ICON.