Michelle Sauther Ph.D. Academic Address Anthropology Department Box 233 Hale Science Building University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 Phone: (303) 492-1712 Email: sauther@stripe.colorado.edu

Education

• B.A. 1981 Montana State University
• M.A. 1984 Arizona State University
• Ph.D. 1992 Washington University

Teaching Experience

Dr. Sauther's teaching background includes broad-based courses such as introductory anthropology and human ecology, as well as courses that focus on many subdisciplines of biological anthropology: osteology, primatology and human evolution. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, has taught several field primatology courses in Costa Rica, and has taught primatology -oriented courses at the University of Missouri and Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Sauther works hard to make her classes interesting as well as challenging.

Research Interests

Michelle Sauther's research has been extensive and includes African prosimians, New World and Old World monkeys, lemurs and chimpanzees. Her primary focuses is on primate socioecology, but has examined many aspects of primate ecology and genetics. Dr. Sauther's work has included census and habitat profiles of Neotropical primates in Guyana, feeding studies on nocturnal bushbabies as well as diurnal patas monkeys in Kenya, ecological , censusing and genetic studies of ringtailed lemurs in Madagascar, as well as growth and development studies of captive common chimpanzees.

Recent Publications

• 1999 Sauther, ML, Sussman, RW and Gould, L. The Socioecology of the Ringtailed Lemur: Thirty-five Years of Research. Evolutionary Anthropology. 8(4):120-132.
• 1998 Sauther, ML Interplay of phenology and reproductin in Ring-tailed Lemurs: Implications for Ring-tialed lemur Conservation. Folia Primatologica 69, (Suppl 1):309-320.
• 1994 Changes in the use of wild plant foods in free-ranging ring-tailed lemurs during lactation and pregnancy: some implications for hominid foraging strategies. In: Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens. Etkin, N.L. (ed.), University of Arizona Press, Tucson, pp. 240-246.
• 1993 The dynamics of feeding competition in wild populations of ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta). In: Lemur Social Systems and Their Ecological Basis, Kappeler, P. M. and Ganzhorn, J. (eds.), Plenum Press, New York, pp. 135-152.