December 2016
Craig B. Stanford
Curriculum vita
Address: Professor, Biological Sciences and Anthropology
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0652
(213) 740-1918;
and
Research Associate in Vertebrate Biology,
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
Education: Ph.D. 1990, University of California, Berkeley,
Biological Anthropology.
M.A. Rutgers University.
B.A. Drew University. Zoology/Anthropology majors,
with honors in Anthropology.
Field research:Forty+ field trips of 1-18 months.
2016 Pilot research on conservation biology of wildlife in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia.
2005-2013 Field research on primates and other animals and field training of students in Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary and Kaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand.
2007 Wildlife survey, Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia.
2005 summer Primate and reptile biodiversity survey, nature reserves, Guatemala.
2002-2009. Field study of behavioral ecology of Chinese golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shenonngjia Nature Reserve, China (collaboration with Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences).
1996-2006. Field study of behavioral ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.
1990-95 Field study of predator-prey ecology of chimpanzees and red colobus monkeys, Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
1986-88 Field study of ecology and social behavior in the capped langur (Presbytis pileata) in Bangladesh, with supplemental study of other nonhuman primates.
1987 Comparative analysis of Hanuman langur habitats, northern India.
1985 Field study of saddle-backed tamarins in Tambopata Reserve, Peru.
Grants and Fellowships:
2003-2017 Endowed funding from USC Jane Goodall Research Center for primate and related field projects.
1997-2005 National Geographic Society. “Behavioral ecology of sympatric chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.”
2002-2003 National Science Foundation (to C. Stanford and A. Hernandez). “Ethnoarchaeology of chimpanzees in an arid zone in western Tanzania.”
1998-99 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship (research), Uganda. “Sympatric ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.”
1998-99 National Science Foundation (to C. Stanford and M. Muller). “Endocrine aspects of social behavior in wild male chimpanzees.”
1998 U.S.C. Committee on Research Excellence grant. “Construction of field research station in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.”
1998 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (to M. Goldsmith and C. Stanford). “Sympatric ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda.”
1997-98 Wenner-Gren Foundation conference grant (to C. Stanford and H. Bunn). For “The Early Human Diet: The Role of Meat,”held in October, 1998 in Madison, Wisconsin.
1996 Primate Conservation Incorporated (to M. Goldsmith and C. Stanford). “Pilot study of sympatric ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas.”
1993-94 National Geographic Society. Predator-prey ecology of red colobus and chimpanzees.
1992-93 Fulbright Fellowship (research), Tanzania. For chimpanzee/red colobus predator-prey field study.
1992 James Zumberge Faculty Research Fellowship (U.S.C.). Gombe red colobus/chimpanzee predator-prey ecology.
1991 National Geographic Society. Ecology of sympatric chimpanzees and eastern lowland gorillas in Zaïre. Declined.
1990 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. Chimpanzee predation on red colobus monkeys.
1990 World Wildlife Fund grant, Tanzania. For Zanzibar red colobus survey.
1990 Fulbright Fellowship, India. For Hanuman langur field study. Declined.
1988 World Wildlife Fund (U.S.). Capped langur ecology, Bangladesh.
1986-87 Chancellors Patent Award, University of California. Capped langur field study.
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships:
1986 University of Wisconsin, Madison: Hindi/Urdu
1987 University of Washington, Seattle: Bengali
1985, 1986, 1987 R.H. Lowie Graduate Fellowships, U.C. Berkeley.
Honors and awards:
University of Southern California Raubenheimer Senior Faculty Award, 2016
Allan Wilson Center Distinguished Lecturer, New Zealand, Aug-Sep 2013
Executive Board and Co-chair, Programs Committee, Turtle Conservancy, 2014-
USC Associates Teaching Award (USC’s highest teaching honor), 2008
Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award in the Sciences, Drew University, 2003.
Faculty Fellow, U.S.C. Center for Excellence in Teaching, 2000-2003.
USC General Education Teaching Award, 2000-2001.
Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 2000. For the books Chimpanzee and Red Colobus and The Hunting Apes.
Phi Kappa Phi, Faculty advisory board. 2000-2002.
American Association of Publishers. Runner-up, best biological science book of 1998 (Chimpanzee and Red Colobus).
University of Southern California Raubenheimer Junior Faculty Award, 1996.
Mortarboards campus speaker, 1996.
Publications: 135 publications, including 16 books published or in press.
Books:
in press Stanford, C. The New Chimpanzee:Recent Insights into Human Nature from Our Next of Kin. Forthcoming 2017, Harvard University Press.
2016Stanford, C., J.S. Allen and S. Antón. Biological Anthropology: The Natural History of Humankind. Pearson Publishing. Fourth edition Jan 2016.
2016 Stanford, C.B., J.S. Allen and S. Antón. Exploring Biological Anthropology. Pearson Publishing. Fourth edition January 2016.
2014 Stanford, C. Evolution:What Every Teenager Should Know. Amazon Kindle.
2012 Stanford, C. Planet without Apes: Can We Save Our Closest Kin? Harvard University Press.
2010 Stanford, C. The Last Tortoise: A Tale of ExtinctioninOur Lifetime. Harvard University Press.
2008 Bearzi, M. and C. Stanford. Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Apes and Dolphins. Harvard University Press; also printed in three foreign languages.
2007 Stanford, C. Apes of the Impenetrable Forest. Prentice Hall (Primate Field Studies Series).
2003 Stanford, C.B. Upright: the Evolutionary Key to Becoming Human. Houghton-Mifflin; also printed in four foreign languages.
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. Also printed in three foreign languages.
1999 Stanford, C.B. The Hunting Apes: Meat-eating and the Origins of Human Behavior. Princeton University Press. Also printed in five foreign languages.
1998 Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey. Harvard University Press.
1991 Stanford, C.B. The Capped Langur in Bangladesh: Behavioral ecology and reproductive tactics. Contributions to Primatology, volume 26.
in prep Stanford, C. Empty Shells: Turtles and Tortoises on the Brink.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
2016 (pub. online 9/16)M.S. McCarthy, J. Lester andC.B. Stanford. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) flexibly use cultivated species for nesting and bark feeding in a human-dominated habitat. International Journal of Primatology.
in press Liu, X., C.B. Stanford and Y. Li. Research and conservation of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys in Shennongjia, China. In Primates of China (X. Qi et al., eds.). Springer Press.
2015 McCarthy, M.S., J.D. Lester, E.J. Howe, M. Arandjelovic, C.B. Stanford and L. Vigilant. Genetic censusing identifies an unexpectedly sizeable population of chimpanzees in a fragmented forests landscape. BMC Ecology 15: 21.
2014 Tuma, M. and C.B. Stanford. History of human interaction with North American tortoises of the genus Gopherus. In The Biology and Conservation of North American Tortoises (D. Rostal, E. McCoy and H. Mushinsky, eds.), pp. xx-xx. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2013 Hernandez, R.A., J. Moore and C.B. Stanford. Chimpanzee nesting patterns in a dry habitat: ecological aspects and preferences. American Journal of Primatology 75: 979-994.
2013 Liu, X., C. Stanford, Y. Li, J. Yang and H. Yao. Food selection by Rhinopithecus roxellana in relation to nutritional chemistry. American Journal of Primatology 75: 860-871.
2013 Liu, X., C.B. Stanford and Y. Li. Effect of group size on time budgets of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China. International Journal of Primatology 34: 349-60.
2012 Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzees and the behavior of Ardipithecus ramidus. Annual Reviews of Anthropology 41: 139-49.
2012 Laurance, W., C. B. Stanford et al. (of many co-authors). Long-term ecological changes and threats in tropical protected areas. Nature 489: 290-294.
2012 Wanchai, P., C.B. Stanford, K. Thirakupt and S. Thanikorn. Home range of the impressed tortoise, Manouria impressa (Gunther, 1882)inPhu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, Losie Province, Thailand. Journal of Siam Natural History Society.
2011 Yao, H., X. Liu, C. Stanford, J. Yang, T. Huang, F. Wu and Y. Li. Male dispersal in groups of Rhinopithecus roxellana in Shennongjia National Nature Reserve, China. American Journal of Primatology 73: 1280-1288.
2009 Li, Y., X. Liu and C.B. Stanford. Characteristics of a group of Hubei golden snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana hubeiensis) before and after major snow storms. American Journal of Primatology 71: 523-526.
2008 Stanford, C.B. and R.C. O’Malley. Sleeping tree choice in Bwindi chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology 70: 642-649.
2007 Bearzi, M. and C.B. Stanford. Dolphins and African apes: comparisons of sympatric socio-ecology. Contributions to Zoology 76(4): 235-254.
2006 Stanford, C.B. The sympatric ecology of African great apes, with implications for the hominoid divergence. Primates 47: 91-101.
2006 Stanford, C.B. Arboreal bipedalism in wild chimpanzees: implications for models of the evolution of hominid posture and locomotion. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129: 225-231.
2006 Stanford, C.B. Cognition, imitation and culture in the great apes. In From Action to Language, edited by M. Arbib, pp. 91-109. Cambridge University Press.
2006 Nkurunungi, 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 of Western Uganda (J. Paterson, V. Reynolds and H. Notman, eds.), pp. 193-205. Kluwer-Plenum Publ. Co.
2004 Nkurunungi, J.B., J. Ganas, M. Robbins and C.B. Stanford. A. comparison of two mountain gorilla habitats in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park-Uganda. African Journal of Ecology 42: 289-297.
2004 Finch, C.E. and C.B. Stanford. Meat-adaptive genes and the evolution of slower aging in humans. Quarterly Review of Biology 79: 1-50.
2003 Stanford, C.B. and J.B. Nkurunungi. Sympatric ecology of chimpanzees and gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Diet. International Journal of Primatology 24: 901-918.
2002 Stanford, C.B. Arboreal bipedalism in Bwindi chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119: 87-91.
2002 Stanford, C.B. How smart does a hunter need to be ? In The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (M. Beckoff, ed.),pp. 399-404, M.I.T. Press.
2002 Stanford, C.B. Avoiding predators: expectations and evidence in primate antipredator behavior. In special issue of International Journal of Primatology 23: 741-757.
2002 Li, Y., C.B. Stanford, and Y. Yuhui. Winter feeding tree choice in Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellanae) in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China. International Journal of Primatology 23: 657-676.
2001 Stanford, C.B. The subspecies concept in primatology: the case of mountain gorillas. Primates 42 (3): 309-318.
2001 Stanford, C.B. A comparison of social meat-foraging by chimpanzees and human foragers. In Meat-eating and Human Evolution (C. Stanford and H. Bunn, eds), pp. 122-140. Oxford University Press.
2001 Stanford, C.B. and H.T. Bunn. The role of meat in the early human diet. In Meat-eating and Human Evolution (C. Stanford and H. Bunn, eds). Oxford University Press.
2001 Stanford, C.B. The ape’s gift: meat-eating, meat-sharing, and human cognitive evolution. In Tree of Origin (F. de Waal, ed.), pp. 95-117, Harvard University Press.
2000 Stanford, C.B., C. Gambaneza, J.B. Nkurunungi and M. Goldsmith. Chimpanzees in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda, use different tools to obtain different types of honey. Primates 41: 335-339.
2000 Plummer, T. and C.B. Stanford. Analysis of a prey bone assemblage made by wild chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution 39: 245-265.
1998 Stanford, C.B. The social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos: empirical evidence and shifting assumptions. (with commentary and author’s response). Current Anthropology 39 (4): 399-420.
1998 Stanford, C.B. and C.H. Janson (editors). Predation and Primate Social Systems. Behaviour 135: 389-533 (special issue).
1998 Stanford, C.B. Predation and male bonds in primate societies. Behaviour 135: 513-533.
1996 Stanford, C.B. The hunting ecology of wild chimpanzees; implications for the behavioral ecology of Pliocene hominids. American Anthropologist 98: 96-113.
1995 Stanford, C.B. The influence of chimpanzee predation on group size and anti-predator behaviour in red colobus monkeys. Animal Behaviour 49: 577-587.
1995 Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzee hunting behavior and human evolution. American Scientist 83 (3): 256-261.
1995 Muller, M., E. Mpongo, C.B. Stanford, and C. Boehm. A note on the scavenging behavior of wild chimpanzees. Folia Primatologica 65: 43-47.
1994 Stanford, C.B., J. Wallis, E. Mpongo and J. Goodall. Hunting decisions in wild chimpanzees. Behaviour 131: 1-20.
1994 Stanford, C.B., J. Wallis, H. Matama and J. Goodall. Patterns of predation by chimpanzees on red colobus monkeys in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, 1982-1991. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 94: 213-228.
1992 Stanford, C.B. Costs and benefits of allomothering in wild capped langurs (Presbytis pileata). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 30: 29-34.
1992 Stanford, C.B. The comparative ecology of the capped langur (Presbytis pileata, Blyth) in two forest types in Bangladesh. Journal of the Bombay Natural HistorySociety 89: 187-193.
1991 Stanford, C.B. Social dynamics of intergroup encounters in the capped langur (Presbytis pileata). American Journal of Primatology 25: 35-48.
1991 Stanford, C.B. The diet of the capped langur (Presbytis pileata) in a moist deciduous forest in Bangladesh. International Journal of Primatology 12: 199-216.
1991 Stanford, C.B. and J.S. Allen. On strategic storytelling: current models of human behavioral evolution. Current Anthropology 32: 58-61.
1989Stanford, C.B. Cooperative hunting of capped langurs (Presbytis pileata) by jackals (Canis aureus). American Journal of Primatology 19: 53-56.
submitted Yao, H., X. Liu, C. Stanford, Y. Li and J. Yang. Dynamics of the all-male unit of a provisioned Sichuan snub-nosed monkey group (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia Nature Reserve, China.
submitted Liu, X., F. Li, Z. Liu, C.B. Stanford and Y. Li. Effects of group size on ranging patterns in the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennongjia, China.
submitted Wanchai, P., C.B. Stanford and K. Thirakupt. Activity budget of the impressed tortoise, Manouria impressa, inPhu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand.
in prep Liu, X., F. Li, C.B. Stanford, J. Jiang and Y. Li. Age-sex analysis of the diet of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) in Shennonngjia National Nature Reserve, China.
in prep Currylow, A.F.T., T.H. Rafeliarisoa, D.E. Louis Jr., C.B. Stanford, S.T. Randrianjafizanaka, Sarah Chinn and D.E. Crocker. Characterization of seasonal reproductive and stress steroid hormones in radiated tortoises, Astrochelys radiata.
in prep Currylow, A.F.T, A. Mandimbihasina, P. Gibbons, E. Bekarany, C.B. Stanford, E.E. Louis Jr. and D.E. Crocker. Comparative ecophysiology of a critically endangered ectotherm: implications for conservation management.
manuscript Stanford, C.B. Why chimpanzees hunt.
Other Publications:
2016. Stanford, C.B. “Meat-eating and Human Evolution.” Entry in International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley.
2015 Stanford, C. Review of State of the Apes (by Arcus Foundation) andEncounteringGorillas (by James Newman), Biological Conservation 192:10.
2015 Stanford, C.B., P. Wanchai, C. Schaffer, R. Schaffer and K. Thirakupt. Manouria emys. Chelonian Research Monographs. IUCN.
2015 Stanford, C. “Jane Goodall,” Entry in International Encyclopedia of
Primatology. Wiley.
2015. Stanford, C. It started with a letter. In The Jane Effect: Celebrating Jane Goodall (edited by M. Bekoff and D. Peterson), pp. 43-45. Trinity University Press.
2014 Stanford, C. Chimpanzee reunion. In Primate Ethnographies (Edited by K.B. Strier), Pearson Publishing Co, pp. 175-184.
2013 Stanford, C. and M. Tuma. Pancake breakfast. The Tortoise 2: 56-61.
2012 Stanford, C. Review of Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore (by T. Nishida). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149: 483.
2012 Stanford, C. Imagining a Planet Without Apes. Psychology Today, November 20.
2012 Stanford, C. Planet Without Apes? The Huffington Post, November 5.
2012 Stanford, C. Can Ecotourism Save the great apes? Harvard University Press blog October 22.
2012 Stanford, C.B. Review of Primate Minds (F. de Waal and P. Ferrari, eds). Current Anthropology53 (5).
2012 Stanford, C. An obituary for Lonesome George. Harvard University Press blog June 28.
2012 Stanford, C., P. Wanchai and K. Thirakupt. Tortoises in the Mist: the forest tortoises of the genus Manouria. The Tortoisevolume 1.
2011 Stanford, C. Commentary on the state of Anthropology in the United States. Kroeber Anthropological Society Newsletter, Spring 2011.
2010 Bearzi, M. and C. Stanford. A bigger, better brain. American Scientist.
2009 Stanford, C.B. Review of Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans (ed. by M. Muller and R. Wrangham). American Scientist (published online 10/09).
2008 Stanford, C.B. Philosophical Primates ? (review of Primates and Philosophers, by F. de Waal). Current Anthropology49: 695-703.
2008 Stanford, C.B. Comment on Sayers and Lovejoy, “The chimpanzee has no clothes: a critical examination of Pan troglodytes in models of human evolution." Current Anthropology 49: 103-104.
2008 Stanford, C.B. Review of Feeding Ecology of Great Apes and Other Primates(edited by G. Hohmann et al.). Ecology89(1).
2007 Stanford, C.B. Comment on Alter, “The once and future ape-man: reflections on chimera, human evolution, and questions of disciplinary coherence." Current Anthropology 48: 647.
2006 Stanford, C.B. Review of Before the Dawn (by N. Wade). American Scientist.
2006 Stanford, C.B. What Nonhuman Primates Can and Can’t Teach Us About the Evolution of Mind. In The Evolution of Mind: Questions and Controversies (ed. S. Gangestead and J. Simpson). Guilford Press.
2005 Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzee behavior and ecology. Encyclopedia entry in World Book: Science Year.
2006 Stanford, C.B. Review of The Cultured Chimpanzee (by W. McGrew). American Anthropologist 107: 426-427.
2005 Stanford, C. Chelonian conservation in Myanmar. Marmorata: Mar/Apr 2006.
2005 Stanford, C.B. Review of The Evolution of Thought (edited by A. E. Russon and D. R. Begun). Quarterly Review of Biology.
2005 Stanford, C. Cousins: What the great apes tell us about human origins. In The Search for a Common Language: Environmental Writing and Education, pp. 35-45. Utah State University Press.
2005 Stanford, C.B. Chimpanzees as Predators. In The World Atlas of Great Apes and their Conservation. UNEP.
2004 Stanford, C.B. review of Intelligence in Apes and Other Rational Beings (by D. M. Rumbaugh and D. A. Washburn). Quarterly Review of Biology 79:335.
2004 Stanford, C.B. Book review of Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos (edited by C. Boesch, G. Hohmann and L. Marchant). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 121.
2003 Stanford, C. Book review of Eating Apes (by D. Peterson). Quarterly Review of Biology. 77.
2003 Stanford, C.B. Sharing the wealth: chimpanzees and mountain gorillas share the resources of The Impenetrable Forest. Natural History 112 (6): 46-51.
2003 Stanford, C.B. Book review of Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societies (edited by F. de Waal and P. Tyack). Quarterly Review of Biology 78: 378.
2002 Finch, C.E. and C.B. Stanford. Lipoprotein genes and diet in the evolution of human intelligence and longevity. Pp. 130-185, Proceedings of IPSEN Foundation Conference, 2001.
2002 Stanford, C.B. Ape Nature ? Book review of The Chimpanzees of the Taï Forest (by C. Boesch and H. Boesch-Achermann). Current Anthropology 43: 527-528.
2002 Stanford, C.B. Book review of Great Apes and Humans: the Ethics of Coexistence (edited by B. Beck et al.) International Journal of Primatology.
2001 Maughn, J.E. and C.B. Stanford. Terrestrial nestbuilding in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Bwindi Impenetrable National park, Uganda, East Africa. Primate Eye 75: 28-29.
2001 Stanford, C.B. Book review of Perspectives in Ethology, Volume 13 (edited by F. Tonneau and N. S. Thompson). Quarterly Review of Biology 76(4): 533.
2001 Stanford, C.B. Comment on Hawkes, O'Connell and Blurton-Jones, "Hunting and nuclear families: some lessons from the Hadza about men's work." Current Anthropology 42: 701.
2001 Stanford, C.B. Book review of Primate Conservation Biology (by G. Cowlishaw and R. Dunbar). Quarterly Review of Biology 76(3): 368.
2000 Stanford, C.B. Book review essay on Culture (by A. Kuper) and That Complex Whole (by L. Cronk). The Sciences May/June: 38-43.
2000 Stanford, C.B. Book review of A Natural History of Rape (by R. Thornhill and C. Palmer) and Why Sex Matters (by B. Low). American Scientist July/August: 360-362.
2000 Stanford, C.B. Reply to de Waal. American Scientist May/June: 5-6.
2000 Stanford, C.B. The Bwindi Impenetrable Great Ape Project: Status report for 2000. Gorilla Conservation News 14.
2000 Stanford, C.B. Gorillas in a Garden of Eden. Zoo View 34(2): 16-17.
2000 Stanford, C.B. Brutal apes vs. sexy apes ? American Scientist March/April: 110-112.
2000 Stanford, C.B. Apes of wrath: replies to letters to the editor. The Sciences January/February: 4-5.
1999 Stanford, C.B. and H. Bunn. Meat-eating and hominid evolution [report on Wenner-Gren conference]. Current Anthropology 40: 726-728.
1999 Stanford, C.B. Gorilla warfare. The Sciences. July/August: 18-23.
1999 Stanford, C.B. Great apes and early hominids: reconstructing ancestral behavior. In: The Nonhuman Primates (P. Dolhinow and A. Fuentes, eds), pp. 196-200. Mayfield Publishing Co.
1999 Silk, J. and C. Stanford. Commentary on primate infanticide. Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association. September issue.
1999 Stanford, C.B. Of gorillas and guerrillas. Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association May issue.