2015 - Present | Content Contributor, The Animal Studies Repository | |
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2011 - Present | Founder and Executive Director, The Kimmela Center for Animal Advocacy | |
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2011 - 2014 | Senior Lecturer, Emory University ‐ Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts | |
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2009 - 2014 | Faculty, Emory University Center for Ethics | |
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2010 - 2011 | Senior Lecturer, Emory University ‐ Department of Psychology | |
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2005 - 2010 | Senior Lecturer, Emory University ‐ Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program | |
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1997 - 2005 | Lecturer, Emory University ‐ Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
2011 | Comparison of Public and Scientific Concern for Hydrofracking, Factory Farming, and Marine Mammal Captivity: Is Public Concern Consistent with or Doubtful about Scientific Understandings? |
SUNY College at Oneonta | |
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant | |
Colleague(s): Gregory Fulkerson, Brian Lowe, William Wilkerson, Brett Heindl | |
2009 | Virtual Workshops on the Study of Intelligence in Astrobiology |
NASA Astrobiology Institute | |
Conference and Workshop Fund Award | |
Colleague(s): Kathryn Denning | |
2008 | A Virtual Resource Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Intelligent Life |
NASA Astrobiology Institute | |
Director’s Discretionary Fund Award | |
Colleague(s): Kathryn Denning | |
2007 | Systematics and evolution of living and fossil delphinidans (dolphins, porpoises, and kin) |
National Science Foundation | |
Colleague(s): John Gatesy and Jonathan Geisler | |
2004 | Analysis of cortical organization in dolphins |
Emory University Research Committee |
Professional Service and Affiliations
Present | Advisory Board, Dolphin Biology and Conservation (DBC) | Present | Science Advisor, Earth in Transition | Present | Advisory Board, New Horizons Message Initiative | Present | Lead Scientist, The Someone Not Something Project with Farm Sanctuary |
Honors and Awards
- International Travel Award, Institute for International Travel and Comparative Studies, Emory University
- Animal Behavior Society Symposium Grant
- Faculty Development Award, Emory University
- Visiting Research Award, National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution
1995 | PhD, State University of New York at Albany ‐ Biopsychology | |
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1989 | MA, Miami University - Oxford ‐ Experimental Psychology | |
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1982 | BA, New York University ‐ Psychology | |
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