Honorary Appointments

Honorary staff appointments at the Field Museum are awarded to diverse scientists and educators who contribute to our research, collections, science action, and learning efforts. These appointments recognize individuals who have a close and active relationship with the Field Museum, and whose association with us works to the mutual benefit of the Field and the individual, and/or their home institution. While such appointments are conferred on these colleagues as an honor, it is also an honor for us to maintain these relationships and collaborations.

Curators emeritus

Name	Institution	Area of Expertise
Bennet (Ben) Bronson	Field Museum	Economic and social evolution of human society, early technology and trade
Michael O. Dillon	Field Museum	Botany
John J. Engel	Field Museum	Bryophytes
Jonathan Haas	Field Museum	Archaeology, southwestern US and Andean South America
Scott Lidgard	Field Museum	Bryozoans
Robert Martin	Field Museum	Primatology, Biological anthropology
Alfred F. Newton	Field Museum	Biogeography, collection management, ecology, evolutionary biology, identification tools, systematics/phylogeny
Bruce D. Patterson	Field Museum	Mammalogy
Margaret Thayer	Field Museum	Biogeography, Collection Management, Evolutionary Biology
Harold K. Voris	Field Museum	Herpetology
Alaka Wali	Field Museum	Cultural Anthropology

Adjunct curators

Name	Institution	Area of Expertise
Kathleen Adams	Loyola University	Anthropology of tourism, heritage and the politics of identity, ethnographic arts, and museum studies
Dean Arnold	Wheaton College	Anthropology, Central and South America
Brian Bauer	University of Illinois Chicago	Incan Archaeology/Anthro
Tarini Bedi	University of Illinois at Chicago	Urban anthropology
Deborah Bekken	Field Museum	Archaeology
James A. Brown	Northwestern University	Archaeology
Jacob D Campbell	Field Museum	Environmental Anthropologist
Christopher Carleton Jarrett	Field Museum	Cultural Anthropologist
Molly Doane	University of Illinois Chicago	Anthropology
Timothy Earle	Northwestern University	Archaeology
Ian Glasspool	Field Museum	Paleobotany
Mitch Hendrickson	University of Illinois Chicago	Archaeology
Paul Hockings	University of Illinois Chicago	Anthropology
Sabine Huhndorf	Field Museum	Fungi, lichens
Matthew H. Johnson	Northwestern University	Complex societies of Britain and Europe, AD1200-1800
Laura Junker	University of Illinois Chicago	Archaeology and ethnohistory
Julian C. Kerbis-Peterhans	Field Museum	African Mammals
Douglas Kiel	Northwestern University	Native American History and Politics
Mario A. LaMothe	University of Illinois Chicago	Anthropology
Vincent M. Lamotta	University of Illinois Chicago	Archaeology
Patrick Leacock	Field Museum	Biogeography, identification tools, checklists, guides, keys
William Leonard	Northwestern University	Biological anthropology
Mark Liechty	University of Illinois Chicago	Cultural anthropology
Thomas W. McDade	Northwestern University	Human population biology
John Monaghan	University of Illinois Chicago	Cultural anthropology
Donna Nash	University of North Carolina Greensboro	Archaeology, State Development and Imperial Expansion
Linda Nicholas	Field Museum	Archaeology
Lisa Niziolek	Field Museum	Java Sea Shipwreck
James L. Phillips	Field Museum	Archaeology, North Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Palestine, Turkey, France, Spain
Nigel Pitman	Field Museum	Conservation Ecology, Botany
Gayatri Reddy	University of Illinois Chicago	Sexuality, gender, health, community-formation in India
Helen Robbins	Field Museum	Ethnography, repatriation
Cynthia Robin	Northwestern University	Archaeology, Households and Everyday Life, Social and Settlement Organization, Space and Place, Gender and Feminist Theory, Maya, Mesoamerica, Complex Societies
Helen Schwartzman	Northwestern University	Psychological Anthropology, Play and Childhood Development, Work and Organizations, Narratives in Everyday Life, Children and Technology, Ethnographic Methods, United States
D. Doel Soejarto	University of Illinois Chicago	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius	University of Illinois at Chicago	Mexican archaeologist who specializes in landscape archaeology
Matt Von Konrat	Field Museum	Pteridophytes and bryophytes
Mary J. Weismantel	Northwestern University	Archaeology, art history, gender and sexuality studies
Sloan Williams	University of Illinois Chicago	Biological Anthropology
Sera Young	Northwestern University	Anthropology, Archaeology

Associates

Name	Institution	Area of Expertise
Windsor Aguirre	DePaul University	Fishes
William Surprison (Bil) Alverson	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Neotropical Botany
Diana (Tita) Alvira	Director of Thriving Futures at the Legado Initiative	Conservation for Wellbeing
Grace Anderson	Magic Cabinet	Community Engagement
Toni Anderson	Sacred Keepers Sustainability Lab	Urban Ecology, Community Engagement
Thomas Anton	The Ecological Consulting Group	Herpetology
Gabriel Arellano	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Neotropical Botany
Gloria Arratia	University of Kansas	Paleontology, Biogeography, Systematics
Peter Avis	Indiana University Northwest	ectomycchorizal fungal communities
Daniel Ballhorn	University of Minnesota	Botany
Rosemary Kathleen Barraclough	University of Auckland	Birds
Fred Barrie	Missouri Botanical Garden	Flowering and Edible plants
Allison Beck	Black Hawk College	Fossil Vertebrates
William Bemis	Cornell University	Fossil Fishes
Daniel Blake	University of Illinois	Fossil Invertebrates
Richard Blanton	Purdue University	Archaeology, Mexico
Rodrigo Botero	Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS)	Biodiversity Conservation
Charles Kevin Boyce	Stanford University	Paleobotany
Mark Bramstedt	Kane-DuPage Soil and Water Conservation District	Soil Ecology
R. Michael Brattain	Purdue University	Entomology
Adriana Bravo	Royal Ontario Museum	Neotropical Biology
Paul Brinkman	North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences	Paleontology
Stefania Briones	Field Museum	Bats
Christopher A. Brochu	University of Iowa	Vertebrate Paleontology
Michael A. Bryson	Roosevelt University	Sustainability
Jason Bystriansky	DePaul University	physiologist, osmoregulation in fishes
Rosa Cabrera	University of Illinois Chicago	Latino Culture, Anthropology
Andrew Campbell	University of Chicago	Cosmochemistry
Michael Armand P Canilao	University of the Philippines Diliman	Ethnological of the Philippines
Matthew T. Carrano	Smithsonian Institution	Dinosaurs
Mitchel Castro Alvarez	Field Museum	Conservation for Wellbeing, Peru
Maria Chacaltana Cortez	Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima Peru	Andean archaeology
Stephanie Clark	Invertebrate Identification, Sydney	Paleobiology, ecology, taxonomy
Julia Clarke	University of Texas at Austin	Fossil Vertebrates
Michael Ivor Coates	University of Chicago	Paleontology, vertebrate diversity, evolution
Raymond Codrington	Aspen Institute	Popular culture and race studies, museum and public engagement, policy analysis, and applied research
Timothy M. Collins	Florida State University	Molecular Systematics, Evolution, Biogeography, and Phylogeography
Richard Condit	retired	Tropical Ecology
Jacob Cooper	University of Kansas	Birds
Paul Copp	University of Chicago	Chinese anthro/archaeology
Peter Crane	Oak Spring Garden Foundation	Palebotany
Ana Crespo	Universidad Madrid	Pharmacy
Darin Croft	Case Western University	Fossil Vertebrates
Andrew Davis	University of Chicago	Isotope Geochemistry, cosmochemistry
Susan DeFrance	University of Florida	Zooarchaeology, Andes
Noe U. De la Sancha	Chicago State University	Paraguayan Mammals
Carl W. Dick	Western Kentucky University	Inter-relationships of ectoparasites and mammalian hosts
Arvin Diesmos	National Museum of the Philippines	Herps and Mammals
Marlene Donnelly	Field Museum	Scientific Illustration
Isabelle Druc	University of Wisconsin	Anthropology
Paul R. Duffy	University of Toronto	Anthropology
Mariano Roy Duya	University of the Philippines Diliman	Mammals
Bethany Elkington	University of Illinois Chicago	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Jake Esselstyn	Louisiana State University	Mammals, speciation, island biogeography, phylogenetics, systematics, and community ecology.
Ronald K. Faulseit	Field Museum	Archaeology
Margaux Fischer	Field Museum	Liverworts
John Flynn	American Museum of Natural History	Fossil Vertebrates
Michael Foote	University of Chicago	Paleontology, biogeography, evolutionary paleoecology, macroevolution
Catherine Forster	SUNY Stony Brook	Paleontology, dinosaurs, Ornithiscia
Jörg Fröbisch	Museum fur Naturkunde	Evolution of mammals
Gary Galbreath	Northwestern University	Evolutionary and conservation biology research in Southeast Asia
Elliot Gardner		Botany
Bucky Gates	Lake Forest College	Dinosaurs
Timothy Gaudin	University of Tennessee	Mammals, evolutionary biology
Daniel L Gebo	Northern Illinois University	Primate evolution and anatomy
Jochen Gerber	Field Museum	Land and Freshwater Mollusks
Paul Gignac	Oklahoma State University	Tetrapod Vertebrates
Gonzalo Giribet	Harvard University, Museum of Comparative University	Evolutionary biology, animal diversity
Mark Golitko	University of Notre Dame	Archaeology
Eric Gorscak	Midwestern University	Dinosaurs
James G. Graham	Field Museum	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Lawrence Grossman	University of Chicago	Meteoritics
Thomas Guensburg	Rock Valley College	Fossil Vertebrates
Juan Guevara	Universidad de las Américas (Ecuador)	Neotropical Botany
Attila Gyucha	University of Georgia	Hungary and Greece Anthropology
William Hammer	Augustana College	Fossil Vertebrates
John M. Healy	Queensland Museum	Ultrastructure and taxonomic utility of spermatozoa
Josh Henkin	Field Museum	Medical ethnobotany
Patrick Herendeen	Chicago Botanic Garden	Flowering plant evolution
Andrew L. Hipp	Morton Arboretum	Plant systematics
Jen-Pan Huang	Academia Sinica, Taipei	Lichens
Rainer Hutterer	Alexander Koenig Museum	Vertebrates, mammalogy
Boris Igic	University of Illinois Chicago	Mating, evolution, diversification
Dilyana Ivanova-Zieske	Field Museum	Balkan ethnography and ethnohistory
David Jablonski	University of Chicago	Paleontology
Christine Janis	Brown University	Ungulate paleobiology
Sharon Jansa	University of Minnesota	Mammals
Yanzhu (Bamboo) Ji	Field Museum	Birds
Carolyn Schiller Johnson	University of Chicago	Anthropology, humanities, Asia
Marian Kadushin	University of Illinois Chicago	Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Charles Kahindo	Université Officielle de Bukavu	Birds
Christian Kammerer	North Carolina Museum of Natural Hsitory	Fossil Vertebrates
Kuswata Kartawinata	Indonesian Biological Society	Botany, ecology
Lawerence H. Keeley	University of Illinois Chicago	Archaeology
Susan Kirt	Chicago State University	Ecology, Photography
Az Klymiuk	University of Manitoba	Paleobotany
Nicholas (Nic) Kotlinski	Colorado State Forest Service	GIS, Data Visualization
David Krause	SUNY Stony Brook	Anatomy, paleontology
Daniel Ksepka	North Carolina State University	Birds
Charo Lanao	Atinchik Consultoras	Community Engagement
Michael J. Lannoo	Indiana University School of Medicine	Conservation biology
Tyrone Lavery	Australia National University	Mammals, island biogeography, indigenous-led conservation in Melanesia
Steven Leavitt	Field Museum	Lichens and Fungi
Amanda Lee	UIC	forensic anthropology
Blanca León	University of Texas	Neotropical Botany
Mark Littman	Stagg High School	fish systematics and taxonomy
Jen Lobo	SAIC	Scientific Illustration
R. Eric Lombard	University of Chicago	Fossil vertebrates
Dylan Lott	University of Illinois-Chicago,	Tibetan Buddhism, Neuroscience, and the Politics of Representation
Maria Cecilia Lozado	University of Chicago	Andean archaeology
Robert Lücking	The Field Museum	Lichens, Fungi
Ernest Lundelius	University of Texas at Austin	Fossil Vert.
James Luteyn	The New York Botanical Garden	Neotropical blueberries
Holly Lutz	Field Museum	Bats, Birds, Evolution
Miguel Macedo	Instituto del Bien Común – IBC	Environmental Governance
J. Dylan Maddox	The Field Museum	Evolutions, population genetics, ecology of birds
Renan Maestri	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	Mammals
Roberta Mason-Gamer	University of Illinois Chicago	Ecology, evolution, speciation
Wilfredo Matamoros	Universidad de Ciencias Y Artes de Chiapas	freshwater fishes of Central America and southern Mexico.
Elio (Wayu) Matapi	Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS)	Community Engagement
Greg Mayer	University of Wisconsin-Parkside	Systematics and ecology of West Indian and Central American Anolis lizards.
Molly McDonough	Chicago State University	African Small Mammal Phylogenetics
Matthew McDowell	University of Tasmania	Small Mammal Faunas, Caves
Maria Ines Messuti	Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina	Lichenology
Paula M. Mikkelsen	Field Museum	Invertebrates
Joseph Milanovich	Loyola University Chicago	Aquatic and Vertebrate ecology, herpetology
Heather Miller	--	Native Culture Consultant
Phillip G. Millhouse	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Anthropology
Antonio R. Molina	Field Museum	Botany
Katherine Moore Powell	Lynker Technology	Climate Adaptation, Water Resources
Corrie Moreau	Cornell University	Ants
Debra (Debby) Moskovits	Field Museum	Conservation Action, Conservation Ecology
Gregory M. Mueller	Chicago Botanic Garden	Mycology
George Mugambi	National Museums of Kenya	Mycology
Jon Nations	University of Chicago	Mammals
Eugenio Nearns	Purdue University	Entomology
Philip Novack-Gottshall	Benedictine University	Paleobiology, ecology, taxonomy
Patricia Novick	Egan Office of Urban Education and Community Partnerships, DePaul University	Social Psychology
Janine Ochoa	University of the Philippines	Mammals, archaeology, paleobiology
Rahul Oka	Notre Dame University	Economic anthropology
Link Olson	University of Alaska	Mammals
Anna K. Ormiston	The Nature Conservancy	Conservation Ecology, Guyana
Nikos Papadopoulos	Institute for Mediterranean Studies	Anthropology
Khwanruan Papong	Mahasarakham University	Lichenized fungi
William Pestle	University of Miami	Bioarchaeology, prehistoric Latin American and Caribbean peoples
Graham Pickren	Roosevelt University	Sustainability
Roy E. Plotnick	University of Illinois Chicago	Invertebrate paleontology
Fawn Pochel	Art Institute of Chicago	First Nations Cultural Consultant
Jan Johan ter Poorten	Field Museum	Invertebrates
Gareth Powell	Brigham Young University	Beetles
Ayesha Qazi	Field Museum	Environmental Science
Ashwin Ravikumar	Amherst College	Political Ecology
Timothy A. Rawlings	Cape Breton University	Invertebrates
David Reid	University of Illinois Chicago	obsidian sourcing in Peru, climate change during the Middle Horizon.
Robert Reisz	University of Toronto at Mississauga	Vertebrate paleontology
Alan Resetar	Field Museum	Reptiles and Amphibians
Frank Richter	University of Chicago	Meteoritics
Marcos Antonio Ríos Paredes	Herbario Amazonense (AMAZ), Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana	Botany
Mario A. Rivera	ICOMOS-Chile	Anthropology
Ray Rogers	Macalester College	Sedimentary geology, taphonomy, marine and terrestrial fossils
John Rogner	Illinois Department of Natural Resources	Landscape Conservation, Chicago Wilderness
Laurel Ross	Field Museum	Conservation Ecology, Chicago Wilderness
Daniela Rossoni	Florida State University	Morphological integration and evolution of bats
Dakota Rowsey	Arizona State University	Evolution and biogeography of the Philippine mammal fauna
Ana Rosa Sáenz Rodriguez	Instituto del Bien Común – IBC	Conservation Ecology, Peru
Evan Saitta	Field Museum	Paleontology
Alejandra Salazar Molano	Fundación para la Conservación y el Desarrollo Sostenible (FCDS)	Sociology, Indigenous and Campesino Communites
Rachel Santymire	Lincoln Park Zoo	Wildlife biology
Apostolos Sarris	Institute for Mediterranean Studies	Archaeology/Geology
Andre Sartori	THIS Institute	Invertebrates
Rachel Scarlett	Purdue University	Conservation Biology
Imke Schmitt	Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre	Evolution of symbiotic organisms partnering with fungi
Birger Schmitz	Lund University	Meteoritics and stratigraphy
Hans-Peter Schultze	University of Kansas	Paleontology
Christopher Scotese	PALEOMAP	Paleogeography
Lydia Scott	The Morton Arboretum	Urban Foresty
Jodi Sedlock	Lawrence University	Philippine bats
David Sepkoski	University of Illinois Chicago	Paleontology
Paul Sereno	University of Chicago	Fossil Vert., dinosaurs
James Shannon	Abbott	Engineer; Environment, Health, & Safety
Nicola Sharratt	Georgia State University	Archaeology, Andean South America
Neil Shubin	University of Chicago	evolutionary origin of new anatomical features and faunas
Christian A. Sidor	University of Washington	Vertebrate Evolution during the Permian and Triassic
Velizar Simeonovski	Field Museum	Scientific Illustration
Steven B. Simon	University of New Mexico	petrology and cosmochemistry of early Solar System materials
Michelle Singleton	Midwestern University	Primate Craniofacial Evolution and Development
Graham Slater	University of Chicago	Geophysical Science
Arif Smith	University of Chicago	Art, Arts Education
Nathan Smith	Howard University	Fossil Vert.
Adam Smith	Clemson University	Paleontology
Stephanie Smith	Field Museum	Biomechanics
Sergio Solari	Universidad de Antioquia	Mammals
Robert Stallard	University of Colorado Boulder	Hydrology, Biogeochemistry
Charles E. Stanish	University of California at Los Angeles	Prehistoric societies of Peru, Bolivia, and Chile
Thomas Stephan	University of Chicago	Interplanetary dust particles
Scott J. Steppan	Florida State University	Origin of biological diversity, rodents and bivalves
Betty Strack	Field Museum	Mycology
Bryan L. Stuart	North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences	Herpetology
Robert B. Stuebing	Field Museum	Herpetology
Stuart S. Sumida	Cal State San Bernardino	Vertebrate paleontology
Daniel A. Summers	Field Museum	Insects/Collections
Stephen Sutton	University of Chicago	Meteoritics
Gavin Svenson	Cleveland Museum of Natural History	Invertebrate Zoology
Fui Lian Tan	Field Museum	Herpetology
Donald Charles Taphorn Baechle	Renewable Natural Resources Department, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales "Ezequiel Zamora" (Retired)	Aquatic Zoology
Ryan Thoni	Feather River College	Systematics and taxonomy of fishes of Asia & Eastern Europe
Robert M. Timm	University of Kansas	Tropical Mammals
Luis Alberto Torres Montenegro	Peruvian Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (PCBC)	Neotropical Botany
Andrea Twiss-Brooks	University of Chicago	Humanities and Area Studies
Smiljana Ubois	Independent Researcher	Anthropology
Nathan Upham	University of Chicago	Mammals
David Vaughn	Mote Tropical Research Laboratory	Aquaculture
Benjamin Vining	Boston University	Environmental archaeologist
Robert Voss	American Museum of Natural History	Mammals
Heather Walder	University of Wisconsin - La Crosse	Archaeology/Great Lakes
Jonathan Walz	School for International Training	Anthropology and African Studies
Erin B. Waxenbaum	Northwestern University	Physical Anthropology
Paul W. Webala	Maasai Mara University	Bats of Kenya
Mark Webster	University of Chicago	Systematics/phylogenetics, and biostratigraphy, paleontology
Jun Wen	Smithsonian Institution	Monographic, phylogenetic, biogeographic and ethnobotanical studies of the ginseng family (Araliaceae) and the grape family (Vitaceae)
Alexandra Westrich	Vector Disease Control International	Insects
Robin Whatley	Columbia College	Early mammal paleoecology and taphonomy
Alexander White	Smithsonian Institution	Data science, machine learning, bioinformatics
E. O. Wilson	Harvard University	Systematics and Ichthyology
Karen Wilson	University of Chicago	Anthropology, Archaeology
Jack Wittry	Field Museum	Mazon Creek Fossils
Nyree Zerega	Northwestern University	Botany

Breadcrumbs

Curators emeritus

Adjunct curators

Associates