Course Title: Introduction to Anthropology
Department: Anthropology
Email: kwild@ucsd.edu

Education

University of California, San Diego, CA; Department of Anthropology. PhD expected 06/2009.

University of California, San Diego, CA; Department of Anthropology. M.A. June 2004.

The University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, Undergraduate studies; 08/1999 – 05/2002.
Major: Biology and Anthropology; specializing in primate behavior.

St. John’s College; Santa Fe, NM. B.A. Liberal Arts, 05/1999.
Major: Philosophy; Minors: Literature, History of Science and Math

 

Experience

UCSD Revelle Humanities Writing Program: Teaching Assistant
September 2003 through June 2006,
teaching bi-weekly sections and grading student essays and tests.

UCSD COGS 298: Bonobo Intern Research Project, Christine Johnson instructor.
Winter quarter 2003.
Trained students in primate behavioral observation techniques and methods.

 

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

UCSD Dissertation Research: Chimpanzee social behavior: female counterstrategies to male aggression, immigrant integration into the social hierarchy, female social bonds in Kibale National Park, Uganda. July 2006 – September 2007.

COGS 298: Bonobo Intern Research Project, Christine Johnson instructor. Conducted behavioral observations of bonobo social behavior at the San Diego Wild Animal Park as part of an ongoing research project. Fall quarter 2002 – winter quarter 2003.

Two month field study of Macaca ochreata social behavior and estrus swelling variation in Sulawesi, Indonesia; May – July 2001

Behavioral study of female social interactions with male in captive mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) at Albuquerque Zoo; March - May 2000.