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Craig Stanford
Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences

Contact Information
Office: AHF B54
Phone: (213)740-1918
E-mail: stanford@rcf.usc.edu

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Education

B.A. Zoology, Drew University
M.A. Anthropology, Rutgers University
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

in the current evaluation period I made research trips to Thailand (11/06) and Cambodia (1/07). Thailand to supervise my graduate student studying Manouria emys in Kaeng Krachan National Park. Cambodia - participated in wildlife survey of Cardamom Mountains.
 

Publications

Book

bearzi, m., stanford, c. (2008). Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Apes and Dolphins. Harvard U Press.
stanford, c., allen, j., anton, s. (2008). Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind., 2nd edition. Prentice-Hall.
stanford, c., allen, j., anton, s., fagan, b. (2007). Biological Anthropology and Archaeology: an Integrated Approach. Prentice-Hall.
stanford, c. (2007). Apes of the Impenetrable Forest. Prentice Hall (Primate Field Studies Series).
stanford, c., allen, j., anton, s. (2007). Exploring Biological Anthropology. Prentice-Hall..
(2005). Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind. Prentice-Hall. Second Edition. Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind. Prentice-Hall. Second Edition.
(2003). Upright. Boston and New York: Upright/Houghton Mifflin.
none (Ed.). (1998). Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey. Harvard University Press. Paperback edition 2001. Harvard U Press.
 

Book Chapter

reynolds and notman (Ed.). (2006). Nkrurniungi, J.B. and C.B. Stanford GIS analysis of range use by sympatric mountain gorillas and chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. In Primates in West Uganda (J. Paterson, V. Reynolds and H. Notman, eds.). pp. p. 193-205. nyc: In Primates of Western Uganda (J. Paterson, V. Reynolds and H. Notman, eds.), pp. 193-205. Kluwer-Plenum Publ. Co..
reynpolds and notman (Ed.). (2006). Ground-nesting by chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. In Primates of West Uganda (J. Patersonm, V. Reynolds and H. Notman, eds.). No Journal Defined.
gangestead and simpson (Ed.). (2006). Stanford, C. Cousins: What the great apes tell us about human origins. In The Search for a Common Language: Enviormental Writing and Education. pp. p. 35-45. No Journal Defined.
 

Book Review

stanford, c. (2007). Phillosophical Primates ? (review of Primates and Philosophers, by F. de Waal). Current Anthropology.
stanford, c. (2007). Review of Feeding Ecology of Great Apes and Other Primates (edited by G. Hohmann et al.). Ecology.
stanford, c. (2007). Review of Before the Dawn (by N. Wade). American Scientist.
none (Ed.). (2006). Stanford, C.B. review of The Evolution of Thought (edited by A. E. Russon and D. R. brgun). Quarterly Review of Biology. No Journal Defined. pp. p. xx.
 

Essay

stanford, c. (2007). Comment on Alter, "The once and future apeman: reflections on chimera, human evolution, and questions of displinary coherence.". pp. 647. Current Anthropology.
stanford, c. (2007). Comment on Sayers and Lovejoy, "The chimpanzee has no clothes: a critical examination of Pan troglodytes in models of human evolution.". Current Anthropology.
 

Journal Article

stanford, c. b., o'malley, r. c. (2008). Sleeping tree choice in Bwindi chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology.
bearzi, m., stanford, c. b. (2007). Dolphins and African apes: comparisons of sympatric socio-ecology. Contributions to Zoology 76(4): 235-254. Contributions to Zoology. Vol. 76 (4), pp. 235-54.
stanford, c. (2007). Arboreal bipedalism in wild chimpanzees: implications for models of the evolution of hominid posture and locomotion. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Vol. 129, pp. 225-31.
(2006). Stanford, C.B. Review of Before the Dawn (by N. Wade). American Scientist. Submitted, finch, C.E., H. Kaplan and C.B. Stanford. Humans at the High Table. Scientific American. No Journal Defined. pp. p. n/a.
(2006). Stanford, C.B. Review of The Cultrured Chimpanzee (by W. McGrew). American Anthropologist. No Journal Defined. pp. p. 107.
(2006). Stanford, C.B. Cognition, imitation and culture in the great apes. In From Action to Language, edited by M. Arbib. Cambridge University Press. From action to language via the mirror neuron system/Cambridge University Press. pp. p. 91-109.
(2005). Stanford, C.B. The sympatric ecology of African great apes, with implications for the hominoid divergence. Primates. No Journal Defined. Vol. 91-101
(2005). Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzee behavior and ecology. Encyclopedia entry in World Book: Science Year. No Journal Defined. pp. p. n/a.
(2005). Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzees as Predators. In The World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation. UNEP. No Journal Defined. pp. p. n/a.
 

Other

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. .
 

Research Report

none (Ed.). (2005). Stanford, C. Chelonian conservation in Myanmar. Marmorata. No Journal Defined.
 

Honors and Awards

USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, 2000-2003  
USC or School/Dept Award for Teaching, USC General Education Teaching Award, 2000-2001  
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, For the books Chimpanzee and Red Colobus and The Hunting Apes., 2000  
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 1996  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards

Editorial Board, Paleoanthropology, 2001  
Editorial Board, Annual Editions in Physical Anthropology,, 2000  
 
 
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