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Graduate Programs to Study Evolutionary Approaches to Human Behavior

The following universities have graduate programs in which students can concentrate on evolutionary studies of human behavior.    However, this is not an exhaustive list.  (Also see the "Homepages of Active Researchers" on the "Links" page, as well as the HBES Membership Directory, for additional contacts).

Also see the article "Reflections from The Next Generation: These are the Voyages of Students in Evolutionary Psychology."

 

News:

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Primatology, has an opening for a PhD student interested in modeling cultural transmission and evolution.  For more information, click here.

 

UNITED STATES

Arizona State University

Department of Psychology

Douglas T. Kenrick

Auburn University

Department of Psychology

Lewis Barker   barkele@auburn.edu
Jeffrey Katz

Binghamton University

    Evolutionary Studies Program (both undergraduate and graduate programs).

 

California State University, Fullerton

Anthropology Department
    
    Biocultural/Evolutionary Anthropology

John Bock
Sara Johnson
John Patton
 

Psychology Department

Nancy Segal
Aaron Goetz
Sara E. Hill

California State University, San Marcos

Psychology Department

Russell E. Jackson

Central Michigan University

Psychology Department

Stephen Colarelli

Dartmouth College

Program in Cognitive Neuroscience

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Durham University

MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology

Evolutionary Anthropology Research Group

Robert Barton e-mail: r.a.barton@durham.ac.uk
Russell Hill e-mail: r.a.hill@durham.ac.uk
Alex Bentley e-mail: r.a.bentley@durham.ac.uk

Emory University

Anthropology Department

Melvin Konner
Mark Ridley
Lore Ruttan
Euclid O. Smith
Patricia L. Whitten
Carol Worthman

 

Florida Atlantic University

Department of Psychology

Offers a Ph.D. concentration area in Evolutionary Psychology (click here)

Todd K. Shackelford, email:  tshackel@fau.edu

Natalie Ciarocco Belenky

Iris Berent

David F. Bjorklund

Michael D. Sagristano

Robin R. Vallacher


Department of Anthropology


Douglas C. Broadfield


Department of Biological Sciences


Colin R. Hughes


Honors College


Kevin Lanning

 

Florida State University

Department of Psychology

Jon Maner

Department of Anthropology

Frank Marlowe

 

Georgetown University

Psychology Department 

Janet Mann

Harvard University

Psychology Department

Marc Hauser
Steven Pinker
 

Anthropology Department

Irven DeVore
Peter T. Ellison
Richard W. Wrangham

 

Kansas State University

   Department of Psychology

Gary Brase

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Michigan State University

Department of Psychology

Carlos Navarret

 

New England Institute  (an initiative by the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of New England to foster research and education into the interdisciplinary nexus of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology.)

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

Psychology Department

Victor Johnston     vic@crl.nmsu.edu
Timothy Ketelaar  
ketelaar@nmsu.edu
 

Northern Illinois University

Department of Political Science

Graduate Programs in Politics and the Life Sciences

Northwestern University

Department of Anthropology

Thomas McDade
William Irons

Pennsylvania State University

Department of Anthropology

Stephen Beckerman
Jeffrey A. Kurland

Rutgers University

Department of Anthropology

Lee Cronk
Helen Fisher
Robin Fox
Ryne Palombit
Horst Dieter Steklis
Lionel Tiger
Robert L. Trivers

Stanford University

Department of Psychology

Anne Fernald (developmental psychology)
Russ Fernald

State University of New York, Buffalo

SUNY New Paltz

Department of Psychology  (both undergraduate and graduate programs).

Glenn Geher

Texas A&M University

Informal interest group at Texas A&M.

Department of Anthropology

Michael S. Alvard

Department of Modern and Classical Languages

Brett Cooke

Department of Psychology

Jeffry Simpson

University at Albany, State University of New York

Department of Psychology

Evolution and Human Behavior Laboratory

Gordon Gallup, Jr.

University of Arizona

Department of Psychology

A. J. Figueredo

University of Arkansas

Department of Anthropology

Douglas Bird

University of California, Davis

Evolutionary Wing, Department of Anthropology, UC-Davis /
Graduate Group in Ecology

Robert L. Bettinger
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Sandy Harcourt
Lynne Isbell
Richard McElreath
Peter Richerson
Peter Rodman
Bruce Winterhalder

 

University of California, Los Angeles

Psychology Department

Martie G. Haselton, Communication Studies & Dept. of Psychology
Neil Malamuth, Psychology Department
James Sidanius, Psychology Department

Department of Biological Anthropology

Clark Barrett
Robert Boyd
Daniel Fessler
Joe Manson
Joan Silk

Graduate School of Education

Nicholas Blurton Jones (Graduate School of Education)

University of California, Santa Barbara

Psychology Department

Leda Cosmides
Daphne Bugental

Alan Fridlund

Anthropology Department

Mike Gurven
Mike Jochim

Don Symons
John Tooby
Philip Walker

University of Chicago

Psychology Department

Dario Maestripieri

 

University of Colorado, Boulder

Psychology Department

Matthew Keller

University of Connecticut

Department of Anthropology

Jim Boster
Richard Sosis

University of Hawaii

Department of Psychology

Debra Lieberman

University of Michigan

Department of Anthropology

Larry Hirschfeld
Beverly Strassman

Department of Psychiatry

Randy Nesse

Department of Psychology

Stephen Kaplan

School of Natural Resources

Bobbi Low

See also the University of Michigan Evolution and Human Adaptation Program.

University of Missouri-Columbia

Department of Anthropology

Mark V. Flinn

Department of Psychological Sciences

David C. Geary,  GearyD@missouri.edu

University of Montana

Anthropology Department

Kimber Haddix McKay

University of Nebraska

Department of Anthropology

Patricia Draper
Raymond Hames   rhames@unl.edu

University of Nevada

Anthropology and Ethnic Studies

Peter B. Gray  peter.gray@unlv.edu
William Jankowiak
Pierre Lienard

University of New Mexico

Department of Psychology

Steven W. Gangestad
Geoffrey F. Miller

Department of Biology

Randy Thornhill
Paul J. Watson

Department of Anthropology

James L. Boone
Kim Hill
Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Hillard S. Kaplan
Jane B. Lancaster
(jlancas@unm.edu)

University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

Department of Anthropology

University of Oregon

See the Human and non-Human Primate Evolution, Ecology and Adaptation Program

Department of Anthropology

Larry Sugiyama
Doug Kennett
Francis White
Josh Snodgrass
Steve Frost

Political Science Dept.

John Orbell

University of Pennsylavania

Psychology Department

Francisco Gil-White
Robert Kurzban
Paul Rosen
Robert Seyfarth

Biology Department

Dorothy Cheney
 

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Anthropology

Steve J. C. Gaulin

Psychology Department

Donald McBurney

University of Texas at Austin

Department of Psychology

David Buss -- also see his Evolutionary Psychology Lab
Norman P. Li -- also see his Li Lab
Devendra Singh

University of Utah

Department of Anthropology

Elizabeth Cashdan
Henry C. Harpending
Kristen Hawkes
Doug Jones
James F. O'Connell
Renee Pennington
Alan Rogers

University of Washington

IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling, University of Washington & Washington State University

Department of Anthropology

Shell-Duncan, Bettina
Eric Alden Smith
Steven Goodreau
Darryl Holman
Donna Leonetti
 

Department of Biology

Carl T. Bergstrom

Washington State University

       Note: New Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Biological and Cultural Evolution, Washington State University

Department of Anthropology

Robert Quinlan
Barry S. Hewlett
Tim Kohler
Karen Lupo
Courtney L. Meehan

 

Wayne State University

Psychology Dept -- Glenn Weisfeld

Law -- Kingsley Browne

Political Science -- John Strate
 


AUSTRALIA

James Cook University

Larry Fiddick larry.fiddick@jcu.edu.au

Michele Surbey -  Michele.Surbey@jcu.edu.au

University of Queensland

Valerie Stone v.stone@psy.uq.edu.au

Thomas Suddendorf  t.suddendorf@psy.uq.edu.au

University of Western Australia

School of of Anatomy and Human Biology

Debra S. Judge  Email: djudge@anhb.uwa.edu.au

Gill Rhodes

CANADA

Brock University

Child and Youth Studies

    Anthony Volk

Concordia University

        School of Business

            Gad Saad

McMaster Unisversity

Department of Psychology

Martin Daly
Sigal Balshine Earn
Margo Wilson

Melissa Rutherford
 

Queens University

Psychology Department

Vern Quinsey

University of Lethbridge

Behaviour and Evolution Research Group

 

University of British Columbia

Department of Psychology

Joe Henrich
Ara Norenzayan
Mark Schaller

 

 

GERMANY

Max Planck Institute: Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition

Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer


Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

NEW ZEALAND

University of Canterbuy

Psychology Department

Bruce Ellis
Garth Fletcher

 

UNITED KINGDOM 

Brunel University

Psychology Department  / Evolution and Human Behavior group

William M. Brown
Nicholas Pound
Michael Price
Achim Schuetzwohl

London School of Economics and Political Science


Interdisciplinary Institute of Management

Satoshi Kanazawa

Department of Social Policy

    Rebecca Sear

Newcastle University

Psychology Department

Marion Petrie
John Lazarus

Oxford University

Biology Department

Psychology Department

Anthropology Department, MSc in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology
  also see: -   Research Group  / Lucy Project

Robin Dunbar

 

University of Cambridge

Department of Experimental Psychology

Simon Baron-Cohen

University College London  (see their Human Evolutionary Ecology Group)

Department of Anthropology -

Ruth Mace

University of Edinbrugh

Postgraduate Programme in the Evolution of Language and Cognition.


 

University of Liverpool

Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Ecology Research Group

Robin Dunbar  e-mail: Robin Dunbar
Louise Barrett  e-mail: Louise Barrett
Steven M. Platek email: splatek@gmail.com
John Lycett  e-mail: John Lycett
John Manning  e-mail: John Manning

University of Reading

Department of Archaeology

Steven Mithen (cognitive archaeology)

University of St. Andrews

Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution

 

ARGENTINA:

University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Group on Evolutionary Archaeology and Anthropology. Coordinator: Dr. Hernan Juan Muscio,
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

If you know of a program that should be listed on this page, please email Dr. Michael Mills at memills@gmail.com