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Krista Fish, Ph.D. Candidate

Academic Address

    Department of Anthropology
    Hale Science Building Campus Box 233
    University of Colorado
    Boulder, CO. 80309
    e-mail: Krista.FishColorado.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. Candidate University of Colorado-Boulder - Anthropology
  • M. A. 2000 University of Colorado-Boulder - Anthropology
  • B. A. 1997 The Colorado College - Anthropology

Teaching Experience

  • 2006-2007 Instructor. The Colorado College Department of Anthropology, Colorado Springs, CO.
  • 2006 Instructor. Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Bocas del Toro, Panama.
  • 2005-2006 Instructor. University of Colorado Department of Anthropology, Boulder, CO.
  • 2004-2005 Teaching Assistant. University of Colorado Department of Anthropology, Boulder, CO.
  • 2003 Instructor. University of Colorado Department of Anthropology, Boulder, CO.
  • 2001-2003 Teaching Assistant. University of Colorado, Department of Anthropology, Boulder, CO.
  • 2002 Teaching Assistant. Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Bocas del Toro,
    Panama.
  • 2000 Teaching Assistant. Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Bocas del Toro,
    Panama.

Courses Taught

Primate Behavior (ANTH 3000), Teaching Anthropology (ANTH 4910), Human Biological Variation (AN 202), Primatology (AN 306), Field Methods in Primate Ecology and Behavior (Field School).

Research Interests

My research interests are focused on investigating primate community ecology and the impacts of human activities/habitat disturbances on the health and behaviors of wild primates.

Recent Publications

  • 2007 Miller DS, Sauther ML, Hunter-Ishikawa M, Fish K, Culbertson H, Cuozzo FP, Campbell TW,
    Andrews GA, Chavey PS, Nachreiner R, Rumbeiha W, Stacewicz-Sapuntzakis M, Lappin MR.
    Biomedical evaluation of free-ranging ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in three habitats at the Beza
    Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. Journal of Wildlife Medicine.
  • 2007 Fish K, Sauther M, Loudon J. Cophrophagy by wild ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in human-
    disturbed locations adjacent to the Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar. American Journal
    of Primatology 69: 1-6.
  • 2006 Loudon JE, Sauther ML, Fish KD, Hunter-Ishikawa M, Ibrahim YJ. One reserve, three primates:
    applying a holistic approach to understand the interconnections among ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur
    catta
    ), Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), and humans (Homo sapiens) at Beza Mahafaly
    Special Reserve, Madagascar. Ecological and Environmental Anthropology 2(2).
  • 2006 Sauther ML, Fish KD, Cuozzo FP, Miller DS, Hunter-Ishikawa M, and Culbertson H. Patterns of
    health, disease, and behavior among wild ring-tailed lemurs Lemur catta: of Beza Mahafaly Special
    Reserve, Madagascar. IN Ring-tailed Lemur Biology. Jolly A, Koyama N, Rasamimanana H, and
    Sussman RW, editors. New York: Springer. P. 313-331.

Updated 9 January, 2008