I
regularly teach Anthropology 7, Human Evolution, the introductory biological
anthropology course. Click here to see its
latest version.
Other undergraduate courses I have taught include Anthropology 124, Evolution and Biology of
Human Behavior.
I am currently accepting
graduate students with research interests in primate behavioral ecology and
social relationships. Opportunities are available for grad students to do
fieldwork on white-faced capuchins or mantled howler monkeys at and near Lomas
Barbudal Biological Reserve, Costa
Rica, a site where Prof. Susan Perry
and I have been working since 1990. If you're interested, visit the web
site Biological
Anthropology@UCLA, and write to me at jmanson[at]anthro.ucla.edu
Graduate
students I have helped train:
- [Primary advisor]: Melissa Gerald, Ph.D. 1999.
Currently Scientist-in-Charge, Cayo Santiago, Caribbean Primate Research
Center
- [Committee member]: Adam Wetsman,
Ph.D. 1998. Currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rio Hondo College
- [Committee member]: Wendy Birky, Ph.D. (Rutgers University) 2002. Currently
Lecturer in Anthropology, CSU Northridge
- [Committee member]: Rebecca
Frank, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA
- [Committee member]: Katherine
Hinde, Ph.D. candidate, UCLA
- [Collaborative research]: Julie Gros-Louis, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) 2001. Currently
Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology and the Animal Behavior Farm,
Indiana University
- [Collaborative research]: Laura Muniz, Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology