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Curriculum
Vitae The
Ecology of Freshwater Molluscs Videos (YouTube) Profile,html [pdf] |
My research interests are broadly
narrow – ranging
across all aspects of genetics, ecology, and evolutionary biology,
focusing exclusively on the Phylum Mollusca. My undergraduate
training
at
Virginia Tech was primarily ecological or ecosystems
oriented, with research emphasis on the freshwater mollusk fauna of
the upper New
River in Va/NC and summer experiences with the TVA in East
Tennessee. In
graduate school I split my time between the Departments of Malacology
and Limnology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and
the University of Pennsylvania. My (1982) PhD dissertation
at Penn focused on natural selection, gene flow restriction, and
genetic divergence among populations of the freshwater
gastropod Goniobasis
(now Pleurocera)
proxima
in the southern
Appalachians. After a year as an AAAS Fellow on Capitol Hill
(working on the Clean Water Act) and a year as a sabbatical replacement
at Rutgers University (teaching Invertebrate Zoology and
Genetics), I
accepted a tenure-track position at the College of
Charleston, where I taught genetics and
evolution for 33 years, until being banned from campus for a
Woodrow Wilson quote in 2016. For more about the Woodrow Wilson
controversy, see Inside Higher Ed 8Aug16. |
Last updated 28 July 2019