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James Hanken, Ph.D.
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
Harvard University
James Hanken is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Curator in Herpetology, and Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. After a postdoctoral stint at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He moved to Harvard in 1999, where he also is Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the Biological Sciences in Dental Medicine Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine. His research focuses on the evolutionary morphology, development, and systematics of vertebrates, especially amphibians. His laboratory maintains active field programs in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. He chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the Consortium for the Barcode of Life and serves on the board of directors of the Natural Science Collections Alliance and the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Biological Sciences. He is past-President of the International Society of Vertebrate Morphologists and former Chair, International Board of Directors, of the Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force. |
