CURRICULUM VITAE

RICHARD G. HARRISON

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Corson Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-2701

 

EDUCATION

1972-1977 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Ph.D., May 1977 (thesis adviser: Peter F. Brussard; thesis title: "Patterns of variation and genetic differentiation in closely related species: the field crickets of eastern North America") 
1968-1969 Department of Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (withdrew February 1969) 
1967-1968 Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England (studies in nerve and muscle physiology) 
1963-1967 Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts; B.A., June 1967

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1996-2001 &
2006-
Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics), Cornell University 
1991- Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences), Cornell University 
1989 Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford, England 
1986-1990 Associate Professor, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 
1982-1986 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 
1977-1982 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Yale University 
1977 Research Associate, Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University (Dr. Ronald Hoy) 
 1969-1972 Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, Harvard Medical School (Dr. Susan Lowey) 
 1967 Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (Dr. Gustav Leinhard) (Summer) 
 1966 Research Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University (Dr. Paul Doty) (Summer)

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998-
Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1989
Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, Fall Term 1981
Cornell Fellowship, 1972-1976
Churchill Fellowship, 1967-1968
Phi Beta Kappa, June 1967

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editor-in-Chief, EVOLUTION, 2003-2006
Editorial Board, GENETICS, 2001-2003
Editorial Board, ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS, 1997-2001
Member, External Review Team, Department of Ecology and Evolution, SUNY, Stony Book, 1997
Associate Editor, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 1993-1996
Member, Committee of Visitors, Systematic and Population Biology Cluster, Division of Environmental Biology, NSF, May 1993
Associate Editor, EVOLUTION, 1991-1993
Member, External Committee to Review Programs in Molecular Systematics and Population Biology at the Smithsonian Institution, January 1992
Panel Member: Systematic Biology Program, NSF, 1987-1990; Population Biology Program, NSF, Fall 1992
Participant, Meeting on the Asian Gypsy Moth sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, East Windsor, Connecticut, 1991
Secretary, Society for the Study of Evolution, 1985-1987
Coordinator, Population Biologists of New England, Spring Meeting, 1981
Board of Editors, AMERICAN SCIENTIST, 1980-1988

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Genetics Society of America
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Biology

INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS (1990-present)

2007

Raleigh, North Carolina (Invited Seminar Speaker)

  Banbury Conference, “Using Barcode Data in Studies of Molecular and Evolutionary Dynamics,” Cold Spring Harbor, New York (Invited Speaker/Organizer)
  University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Invited Seminar Speaker)
2006 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  Presentation to Arts and Sciences Alumni, New York City (Invited Participant)
  Biology/Math Departments, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  Workshop at Mathematical Biosciences Institute, OSU, Columbus, Ohio (Invited Speaker)
2005 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (Invited Seminar Speaker)
2004 Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico (Invited Seminar Speaker)
2003 Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  CNRS/INRA, Montpellier, France (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (Invited Seminar Speaker)
2002 Entomology Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts (Invited Seminar Speaker)
2001 University of Maryland, Department of Zoology, College Park, Maryland (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  Dartmouth College, Biology Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (Invited Seminar Speaker)
  Cornell Institute of Biology Teachers (Invited Seminar Speaker)
 2000 Seminar on Phylogeography, Hybridization, and Speciation in honor of Godrey Hewitt, Aussois, France (Invited Speaker) 
Scripps Institute of Oceanography (Invited Speaker)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Conference on Insect Chemical Ecology in the Molecular Era, Munich, Germany (Invited Speaker) 
1999 New England Molecular Evolutionary Biology Meeting, Albany, New York (Keynote Speaker)
1997 Department of Biology, Princeton University
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University 
1996 Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
1995 Gypsy Moth Interagency Meeting, USDA, Annapolis, Maryland
Department of Biology, University of Rochester
Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Department of Zoology, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand 
1994 Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 
1993 Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe
Department of Biology, Brown University
Department of Biology, Wayne State University
Department of Entomology, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
Symposium at Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Athens, Georgia 
1992 Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens
Symposium on "Insect Phylogenies from Nucleotide Sequences," National Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Baltimore, Maryland 
1991 Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle
Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Arizona, Tucson
Institut de Zoologie et d'Ecologie Animale, University of Lausanne, Switzerland 
1990 Symposium on Hybrid Zones and the Evolutionary Process, International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology IV, College Park, Maryland
Departments of Zoology and Botany, Washington State University, Pullman
Department of Ecology, Evolutionary and Behavioral Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Current Majors
Maureen E. Carter, Ph.D., 2008; Benjamin H. Hamilton, Ph.D., 2011; Erica L. Larson, Ph.D., 2012; Luana S. Maroja, Ph.D., 2008; Marie L. Nydam, Ph.D., 2009; Findley Ransler, Ph.D., 2012; James R. Walters, Ph.D., 2008

Former Majors
Sean P. Mullen, Ph.D., 2006; Erik B. Dopman, Ph.D., 2005; Leila T. Hatch, Ph.D., 2004; Charles L. Ross, Ph.D., 2000; Nathan R. Lovejoy, Ph.D., 1999; Scott E. Stanley, Ph.D., 1999; Christopher S. Willett, Ph.D., 1999; Laura A. Katz, Ph.D., 1996; Andrew V. Brower, Ph.D., 1994; Benjamin B. Normark, Ph.D., 1994; Nelson D. Young, Ph.D., 1994; Rob R. Ramey II, Ph.D., 1993; Beate D. Nuernberger, 1991; Timothy M. Collins, Ph.D. (Yale), 1989; David Rand, Ph.D. (Yale), 1987; William Lawrence, Ph.D. (Yale), 1986; Richard Grosberg, Ph.D. (Yale), 1982; Daniel J. Howard, Ph.D. (Yale), 1982

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS

Ryan Thum, 2004-2006; José Andres, 2003-2006; Ruth Hufbauer, 1999-2000; Richard E. Broughton, 1997-1999; M. Damhnait McHugh, 1994-1996; Kerry L. Shaw, 1993-1995; Bernard J. Crespi, 1991-1992; Brian D. Farrell, 1991-1992; Jonathan M. Brown, 1989-1991; Makio Takeda, 1978-1979