Honorary Appointments

Honorary staff appointments at the Field Museum are awarded to diverse scientists and educators who contribute to our research, collections, science action, and learning efforts. These appointments recognize individuals who have a close and active relationship with the Field Museum, and whose association with us works to the mutual benefit of the Field and the individual, and/or their home institution. While such appointments are conferred on these colleagues as an honor, it is also an honor for us to maintain these relationships and collaborations.

Curators emeritus

Name	Institution	Area of Expertise
Bennet (Ben) Bronson	Field Museum	Economic and social evolution of human society, early technology and trade
John J. Engel	Field Museum	Bryophytes
Lance Grande	Field Museum	Former fossil fish curator; Paleoichthyology; taxonomic and paleoecological diversity
Jonathan Haas	Field Museum	Archaeology, southwestern US and Andean South America
Scott Lidgard	Field Museum	Bryozoans
Robert Martin	Field Museum	Primatology, Biological anthropology
Alfred F. Newton	Field Museum	Biogeography, collection management, ecology, evolutionary biology, identification tools, systematics/phylogeny
Bruce Patterson	Field Museum
Olivier Rieppel	Field Museum	Vertebrate paleontology: marine reptiles
John Edward Terrell	Field Museum	Pacific anthropology
Margaret Thayer	Field Museum	Biogeography, Collection Management, Evolutionary Biology
Harold K. Voris	Field Museum	Herpetology
Alaka Wali	Field Museum	North American Anthropology

Adjunct curators

Name	Institution	Area of Expertise
Dean Arnold	Wheaton College	Anthropology, Central and South America
Brian Bauer	University of Illinois Chicago	Incan Archaeology/Anthropology
Deborah Bekken	Field Museum	Archaeology
Jacob D Campbell	Field Museum	Environmental Anthropologist
Timothy Earle	Northwestern University	Archaeology
Mitch Hendrickson	University of Illinois Chicago	Archaeology
Sabine Huhndorf	Field Museum	Fungi, lichens
Christopher Carleton Jarrett	Rainforest Foundation US	Cultural Anthropologist
Peri Johnson	University of Illinois Chicago	Art History
Laura Junker	University of Illinois Chicago	Archaeology and ethnohistory
Julian C. Kerbis-Peterhans	Field Museum	African Mammals
Mario A. LaMothe	University of Illinois Chicago	Anthropology
Patrick Leacock	Field Museum	Biogeography, identification tools, checklists, guides, keys
John Monaghan	University of Illinois Chicago	Cultural anthropology
Donna Nash	University of North Carolina Greensboro	Archaeology, State Development and Imperial Expansion
Linda Nicholas	Field Museum	Archaeology
Lisa Niziolek	Field Museum	Java Sea Shipwreck
Nigel Pitman	Field Museum	Conservation Ecology, Botany
Kareem Rabie	University of Illinois at Chicago	Anthropology
Gayatri Reddy	University of Illinois at Chicago	Sexuality, gender, health, community-formation in India
Helen Robbins	Field Museum	Ethnography, repatriation
Lita Sacks	University of Illinois at Chicago	Anthropology
D. Doel Soejarto	Field Museum	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius	University of Illinois at Chicago	Mexican archaeologist who specializes in landscape archaeology
Kathrine Starkweather	University of Illinois at Chicago	Anthropology
Sylvia Vatuk	University of Illinois at Chicago	Social anthropology, kinship, urban anthropology, legal anthropology, gender, aging
Matt Von Konrat	Field Museum	Pteridophytes and bryophytes
Sera Young	Northwestern University	Anthropology, Archaeology

Associates

Name	Institution	Area of Expertise
William Surprison (Bil) Alverson	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Neotropical Botany
Diana (Tita) Alvira	Legado Initiative	Conservation for Wellbeing
Grace Anderson	Magic Cabinet	Community Engagement
Thomas Anton	The Ecological Consulting Group	Herpetology
Gabriel Arellano	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Neotropical Botany
Ashley Arico	The Art Institute of Chicago	Anthropology - African Art
Peter Avis	Indiana University Northwest	ectomycchorizal fungal communities
Emily Baca Marroquin		Andean Archaeology
Daniel Ballhorn	University of Minnesota	Botany
Rosemary Kathleen Barraclough	University of Auckland	Birds
Fred Barrie	Missouri Botanical Garden	Flowering and Edible plants
William Bemis	Cornell University	Fossil Fishes
Lois Biggs
Daniel Blake	University of Illinois	Fossil Invertebrates
Richard Blanton	Purdue University	Archaeology, Mexico
Nicholas Block	Stonehill College	Birds
Rodrigo Botero	Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS)	Biodiversity Conservation
Robert Michael Brattain	Purdue University	Entomology
Adriana Bravo	Royal Ontario Museum	Neotropical Biology
Paul Brinkman	North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences	Paleontology
Stefania Briones	Field Museum	Bats
Christopher A. Brochu	University of Iowa	Vertebrate Paleontology
Michael A. Bryson	Roosevelt University	Sustainability
Jason Bystriansky	DePaul University	physiology and osmoregulation in fishes
Rosa Cabrera	University of Illinois Chicago	Latino Culture, Anthropology
Edwin Cadena Rueda	Universidad del Rosario-Bogota	Jurassic and Early Cretaceous paleovertebrates
Andrew Campbell	University of Chicago	Cosmochemistry
Michael "Miggs" Armand P. Canilao	University of the Philippines Diliman	Ethnological of the Philippines
João Capurucho	Field Museum	Population genetics; Scolopadid (Sandpipers and Allies) phylogenetics
Matthew T. Carrano	Smithsonian Institution	Dinosaurs
Mónica R. Carvalho	University of Michigan	Paleobotany
Mitchel Castro Alvarez	Field Museum	Conservation for Wellbeing, Peru
Leo Chan Gaskins	Duke Univeristy	Marine Science and Conservation
Gabrielle Choimet	SFDAS, Sudan	Egyptology, Near Eastern Archaeology
Stephanie Clark	Invertebrate Identification, Sydney	Paleobiology, ecology, taxonomy
David Jonathan Clarke	University of Memphis	Entomology, Paleobiology, Systematics (Taxonomy)
Julia Clarke	University of Texas at Austin	Fossil Vertebrates
Michael Ivor Coates	University of Chicago	Paleontology, vertebrate diversity, evolution
Raymond G. Codrington	Aspen Institute	Popular culture and race studies, museum and public engagement, policy analysis, and applied research
Timothy M. Collins	Florida State University	Molecular Systematics, Evolution, Biogeography, and Phylogeography
Richard Condit	retired	Tropical Ecology
Jacob Cooper	University of Kansas	Birds
Peter Crane	Oak Spring Garden Foundation	Palebotany
Ana Crespo	Universidad Madrid	Pharmacy
Ana Croegaert		Anthropology
Darin Croft	Case Western University	Fossil Vertebrates
Thomas Cullen		Paleobiology, Paleoecology
Gimo Daniel	National Museum Bloemfontein	Terrestrial Invertebrates
Nicolas Dauphas	University of Chicago	Meteoritics
Andrew Davis	University of Chicago	Isotope Geochemistry, cosmochemistry
Noe U. De la Sancha	Chicago State University	Paraguayan Mammals
Paulo Eduardo De Oliveira	University of Sao Paulo	Fossil pollen and spores
Deborah Delgado	Pontifical Catholic University of Peru	Andes Amazon
Terrance "Terry" Demos	Field Museum	Mammals, evolutionary biology
Carl W. Dick	Western Kentucky University	Inter-relationships of ectoparasites and mammalian hosts
Pradeep Divakar	Complutense University of Madrid	Lichens
Marlene Donnelly	Field Museum	Scientific Illustration
Seth Donoughe	University of Chicago	Entomology
Michael L. Draney	UW-Green Bay	Spiders
Isabelle Druc	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Anthropology
Regan Dunn	La Brea Tar Pits and Museum	Paleobotany
Mariano Roy Duya	University of the Philippines Diliman	Mammals
Bethany Elkington	University of Illinois Chicago	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Ignacio Escalante Meza	UIC	Entomology
Jacob Esselstyn	Louisiana State University	Mammals, speciation, island biogeography, phylogenetics, systematics, and community ecology.
Matteo Fabbri	University of Chicago	Paleontology
Mason Fidino	Lincoln Park Zoo	Ecology, analytics, wildlife management
Margaux Fischer	Field Museum	Liverworts
John Flynn	American Museum of Natural History	Fossil Vertebrates
Michael Foote	University of Chicago	Paleontology, biogeography, evolutionary paleoecology, macroevolution
Catherine Forster	SUNY Stony Brook	Paleontology, dinosaurs, Ornithiscia
Adrian Forsyth	The Andes Amazon Fund	Policy, Strategy, Advocacy
Matt Friedman	University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology	fossil fishes
Jörg Fröbisch	Museum fur Naturkunde	Evolution of mammals
Gary Galbreath	Northwestern University	Evolutionary and conservation biology research in Southeast Asia
Chelsea A. M. Gardner	Acadia University	Greco-Roman archaeology
Elliot Gardner	Florida International University	Botany
Bucky Gates	Lake Forest College	Dinosaurs
Timothy Gaudin	University of Tennessee	Mammals, evolutionary biology
Daniel L Gebo	Northern Illinois University	Primate evolution and anatomy
Jochen Gerber	Field Museum	Land and Freshwater Mollusks
Paul Gignac	Oklahoma State University	Tetrapod Vertebrates
Gonzalo Giribet	Harvard University, Museum of Comparative University	Evolutionary biology, animal diversity
Ian Glasspool	Field Museum	Paleobotany
Mark Golitko	University of Notre Dame	Archaeology
Valentina Gómez-Bahamón	Pennsylvania State University	Migration in New World birds
Eric Gorscak	Midwestern University	Dinosaurs
James G. Graham	Field Museum	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Anne L. Grauer	Loyola University of Chicago	Health and disease in historic-period populations
Lawrence Grossman	University of Chicago	Meteoritics
Thomas Guensburg	Rock Valley College	Fossil Vertebrates
Juan Guevara	Universidad de las Américas (Ecuador)	Neotropical Botany
Attila Gyucha	University of Georgia	Hungary and Greece Anthropology
William Hammer	Augustana College	Fossil Vertebrates
Yara Haridy	University of Chicago	Paleontology
John M. Healy	Queensland Museum	Ultrastructure and taxonomic utility of spermatozoa
Luis Francisco Henao-Diaz	University of Chicago	Evolutionary biology, biostatistics, macroevolution
Josh Henkin	Field Museum	Medical ethnobotany
Patrick Herendeen	Chicago Botanic Garden	Flowering plant evolution
Sean Hoban	Morton Arboretum	plant conservation genetics
James Hopson	University of Chicago	Fossil Vert.
Jen-Pan Huang	Academia Sinica, Taipei	Lichens
Rainer Hutterer	Alexander Koenig Museum	Vertebrates, mammalogy
Boris Igic	University of Illinois Chicago	Mating, evolution, diversification
David Jablonski	University of Chicago	Paleontology
Christine Janis	Brown University	Ungulate paleobiology
Sharon Jansa	University of Minnesota	Mammals
Bruce Jayne	University of Cincinnati	Amphibians and Reptiles
Levi Jenkins	Chicago Public Schools	Youth engagement toward conservation
Zi-Feng Jiang	University of Chicago	Birds, parasites
Carolyn Schiller Johnson	University of Chicago	Anthropology, humanities, Asia
Marian Kadushin	University of Illinois Chicago	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Christian Kammerer	North Carolina Museum of Natural Hsitory	Fossil Vertebrates
Kuswata Kartawinata		Plant ecology
J. Mark Kenoyer	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Kish
Susan Kirt	Chicago State University	Ecology, Photography
Az Klymiuk	University of Manitoba	Paleobotany
Nicholas (Nic) Kotlinski	Colorado State Forest Service	GIS, Data Visualization
David Krause	SUNY Stony Brook	Anatomy, paleontology
Daniel Ksepka	North Carolina State University	Birds
Patrick Kück	Leibniz Institute	Phylogenetic databases
Zoe Kulik	University of Washington	Paleontology
Charo Lanao	Atinchik Consultoras	Community Engagement
Tyrone H. Lavery	Australia National University	Mammals, island biogeography, indigenous-led conservation in Melanesia
Ana Lemos	Legado Initiative	Conservation for Wellbeing
Blanca León	University of Texas	Neotropical Botany
Sara Lipshutz	Loyola University Chicago	Birds
Mark Littman	Stagg High School	fish systematics and taxonomy
Jen Lobo	SAIC	Scientific Illustration
R. Eric Lombard	University of Chicago	Fossil vertebrates
Lorena Lopez	Cultivate Power	Community Engagement
Dylan Lott	University of Illinois-Chicago	Tibetan Buddhism, Neuroscience, and the Politics of Representation
Maria Cecilia Lozado Cerna	University of Chicago	Andean archaeology
Robert Lücking	The Field Museum	Lichens, Fungi
Ernest Lundelius	University of Texas at Austin	Fossil Vert.
James Luteyn	The New York Botanical Garden	Neotropical blueberries
Holly Lutz	The Scripps Research Institute	Bats, Birds, Evolution
Sean Lyon	Field Museum	Birds
Miguel Macedo	Instituto del Bien Común – IBC	Environmental Governance
Renan Maestri	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Mammals
Stephen Mahony		Herpetology
Pete Makovicky	University of Minnesota
Roberta Mason-Gamer	University of Illinois Chicago	Ecology, evolution, speciation
Wilfredo Matamoros	Universidad de Ciencias Y Artes de Chiapas	freshwater fishes of Central America and southern Mexico.
Elio (Wayu) Matapi	Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS)	Community Engagement
Neal Matherne	Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center	Southeast Asia and Philippine-area expertise
Axel Mayer	Universität Konstanz	axel.meyer@uni-konstanz.de
Gregory C. Mayer	University of Wisconsin-Parkside	Systematics and ecology of West Indian and Central American Anolis lizards.
Molly McDonough	Chicago State University	African Small Mammal Phylogenetics
Matthew McDowell	University of Tasmania	Small Mammal Faunas, Caves
Amy McLachlan		Anthropology
Sean B. Menke	Lake Forest College	Ecology, biogeography
Gary Merrill	Field Museum	local moss flora expertise
Paula M. Mikkelsen	Field Museum	Invertebrates
Joseph Milanovich	Loyola University Chicago	Aquatic and Vertebrate ecology, herpetology
Heather Miller	Illinois State Museum	Tribal Relations
Marc A. Milne	University of Indianapolis	Insects
Katherine Moore Powell	Lynker Technology	Climate Adaptation, Water Resources
Debra (Debby) Moskovits	Field Museum	Conservation Action, Conservation Ecology
Gregory M. Mueller	Chicago Botanic Garden	Mycology
Luis Muro	LACMA	Andean and Moche Prehistory
Jon Nations	University of Chicago	Mammals
Eugenio Nearns	Purdue University	Entomology
Christine Niezgoda	Field Museum	Flowering Plants
Jasmine Nirody	University of Chicago	Evolutionary Biology
Christopher R. Noto	University Of Wisconsin–Parkside	Vertebrate Paleontology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Philip Novack-Gottshall	Benedictine University	Paleobiology, ecology, taxonomy
Patricia Novick	Egan Office of Urban Education and Community Partnerships, DePaul University	Social Psychology
Lynn K. Nyhart	University of Wisconsin-Madison	History of biology
Carter O'Brien	City of Chicago	Sustainability
Janine Ochoa	University of the Philippines	Mammals, archaeology, paleobiology
Akin Ogundiran	Northwestern University	African Archaeology/Anthropology
Rahul Chandrashekhar Oka	Notre Dame University	Economic anthropology
Link Olson	University of Alaska	Mammals
Anna K. Ormiston	The Nature Conservancy	Conservation Ecology, Guyana
Víctor R. Pacheco Torres	Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos	Mammals in Peru
Luciano Palmieri	Universidade de São Paulo	Insects
Frank Pascoe	College of St. Francis	Spiders
Alison Paul	The Conservation Foundation	Community-based conservation
William J. Pestle	University of Miami	Bioarchaeology, prehistoric Latin American and Caribbean peoples
Constantine Petridis	Art Institute of Chicago	African arts
Oscar Pineda-Catalan	University of Chicago	Biodiversity, Genetics
Roy E. Plotnick	University of Illinois Chicago	Invertebrate paleontology
Gareth Powell	Brigham Young University	Beetles
Mane Pritza	Field Museum	Digital Photography; Photogrammetry, Focus Stacking photography, Emu database
Ayesha Qazi-Lampert	Field Museum	Environmental Science Education, Biology Education
Ashwin Ravikumar	Amherst College	Political Ecology
Timothy A. Rawlings	Cape Breton University	Invertebrates
Iza Redlinski	Forest Preserves of Cook County	Conservation Ecology
Laura Rericha-Anchor	Author, Biologist, Botanist, and Ecological consultant
Alan Resetar	Field Museum	Reptiles and Amphibians
Danielle Riebe	University of North Georgia - Gainesville	European anthropology
Marcos Antonio Ríos Paredes	Herbario Amazonense (AMAZ), Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana	Botany
Mario A. Rivera	ICOMOS-Chile	Anthropology
Ray Rogers	Macalester College	Sedimentary geology, taphonomy, marine and terrestrial fossils
John Rogner	Illinois Department of Natural Resources (retired)	Landscape Conservation, Chicago Wilderness
Amy Rosenthal	Planet	Conservation
Laurel Ross	Field Museum	Conservation Ecology, Chicago Wilderness
Dakota Rowsey	Arizona State University	Evolution and biogeography of the Philippine mammal fauna
Ana Rosa Sáenz Rodriguez	Instituto del Bien Común – IBC	Conservation Ecology, Peru
Evan Saitta	Field Museum	Paleontology
Alejandra Salazar Molano	Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS)	Sociology, Indigenous and Campesino Communites
Nina Sandlin	Field Museum	spider species
Rachel Santymire	Lincoln Park Zoo	Wildlife biology
Andre Sartori	THIS Institute	Invertebrates
Rachel Scarlett	Purdue University	Conservation Biology
Carolyn Schiller Johnson	University of Chicago
Birger Schmitz	Lund University	Meteoritics and stratigraphy
Hans-Peter Schultze	University of Kansas	Paleontology
Christopher Scotese	PALEOMAP	Paleogeography
Lydia Scott	The Morton Arboretum	Urban Foresty
Jodi Sedlock	Lawrence University	Philippine bats
Rebecca Seifried	University of Massachusetts Amherst	GIS, mapping
David Sepkoski	University of Illinois Chicago	Paleontology
Tatiana Sepúlveda	University of Guelph	Insects biodiversity & taxonomy
Paul Sereno	University of Chicago	Fossil Vert., dinosaurs
Amie Settlecowski	University of Chicago	Birds
Nicola Sharratt	Georgia State University	Archaeology, Andean South America
Neil Shubin	University of Chicago	evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas
Christian A. Sidor	University of Washington	Vertebrate Evolution during the Permian and Triassic
Velizar Simeonovski	Field Museum	Scientific Illustration
Steven B. Simon	University of New Mexico	petrology and cosmochemistry of early Solar System materials
Michelle Singleton	Midwestern University	Primate Craniofacial Evolution and Development
Heather Skeen	University of Connecticut	Birds
Graham Slater	University of Chicago	Geophysical Science
Arif Smith	University of Chicago	Art, Arts Education
Nathan Smith	Howard University	Fossil Vert.
Neil Adam Smith	Clemson University	Paleontology
Robert Stallard	University of Colorado Boulder	Hydrology, Biogeochemistry
Charles E. Stanish	University of California at Los Angeles	Prehistoric societies of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile
Thomas Stephan	University of Chicago	Interplanetary dust particles
Scott J. Steppan	Florida State University	Origin of biological diversity, rodents and bivalves
Betty Strack	Field Museum	Mycology
Bryan L. Stuart	North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences	Herpetology
Stuart S. Sumida	Cal State San Bernardino	Vertebrate paleontology
Stephen Sutton	University of Chicago	Meteoritics
Paula Tallman	Loyola	Social Anthropology
Fui Lian Tan	Field Museum	Herpetology
Donald Charles Taphorn Baechle	Renewable Natural Resources Department, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales "Ezequiel Zamora" (Retired)	Aquatic Zoology
Jose Tello	Long Island University	Evolutionary biology, birds
Jan Johan ter Poorten	Field Museum	Invertebrates
Weston (Wes) Testo	Field Museum	Pteridology (ferns)
Michelle Thompson	San Diego Natural History Museum	Biology, Rapid Inventory assessment
Ryan Thoni	Feather River College	Systematics and taxonomy of fishes of Asia & Eastern Europe
Robert M. Timm	University of Kansas	Tropical Mammals
Susumu Tomiya	Kyoto University	Vert. Paleo
Luis Alberto Torres Montenegro	Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC)	Neotropical Botany
Andrea Twiss-Brooks	University of Chicago	Humanities and Area Studies
Nathan Upham	University of Chicago	Mammals
Maria Valdes	Field Museum	Meteroritics
David Vaughan	Mote Tropical Research Laboratory	Aquaculture
Benjamin R. Vining	Boston University	Environmental archaeologist
Robert S. Voss	American Museum of Natural History	Mammals
Corine Vriesendorp	Field Museum	Conservation Ecology
Heather Walder	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	Archaeology/Great Lakes
Joseph F. Walker	University of Illinois Chicago	Plant phylogenomics
J. Richard (Jonathan) Walz	School for International Training	Anthropology and African Studies
Erin B. Waxenbaum	Northwestern University	Physical Anthropology
Paul W. Webala	Maasai Mara University	Bats of Kenya
Mark Webster	University of Chicago	Systematics/phylogenetics, and biostratigraphy, paleontology
Jun Wen	Smithsonian Institution	Monographic, phylogenetic, biogeographic and ethnobotanical studies of the ginseng family (Araliaceae) and the grape family (Vitaceae)
Fred E. Wells	Western Australian Fishers and Marine Research Laboratories	Marine Biology
Mark Westneat	University of Chicago	Biomechanics and Phylogenetics
Robin Whatley	Columbia College	Early mammal paleoecology and taphonomy
Alexander White	Smithsonian Institution	Data science, machine learning, bioinformatics
Dawson M. White	Harvard University	Rare plants; plant diversity studies
Alan T. Whittemore	Morton Arboretum	Plant taxonomy; herbarium management
Jelle Wiersma		Pleistocene fossils
Edward Wilson	Harvard University	Systematics and Ichthyology
Karen Wilson	University of Chicago	Anthropology, Archaeology
Christopher Wirth	Purdue University	Insect Biodiversity and Conservation
Jack Wittry	Field Museum	Mazon Creek Fossils
Yun-Hsin "Becky" Wu	Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County	Fossil birds
Yaowu Xing		biodiversity in the Tibetan plateau
Kenneth Young		Biogeography; Landscape Ecology; Climate Change; Sustainability; Tropical Environments
Nyree Zerega	Northwestern University	Botany
Dilyana Zieske	Field Museum	Balkan ethnography and ethnohistory

Breadcrumbs

Curators emeritus

Adjunct curators

Associates