Katharine Jack

Professor - Anthropology

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, SLA
School of Liberal Arts
https://www.katharine-jack.com/
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Katharine Jack

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 3, 3 more in progress 

Research

Biological Anthropology; Primatology; Primate Behavioral Ecology and Conservation

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Physical Anthropology (Primatology), University of Alberta, 2001
  • M.A., University of Calgary, Physical Anthropology (Primatology), 1995
  • B.S., University of Calgary, Physical Anthropology, 1992

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, School of Liberal Arts, 2020-
  • Director, Environmental Studies Program, Tulane University, 2017-2019
  • Professor, Tulane University, 2016-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2009-2016
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2003-2009
  • Assistant Professor, Appalachian State University, 2001-2003
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, 2001
  • Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary, 1996-2001

Distinctions

  • National Science Foundation Grant, 2021 - 2025
  • National Institute of Health/National Institute of Aging Grant, 2022 - 2025
  • Leakey Foundation Grant (with M. Buehler), 2019
  • Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation Grant, 2016-2018
  • Leakey Foundation Grant, 2016-2018
  • National Geographic Society Grant, 2016-2018
  • National Academy of Science and Keck Futures Initiative, Collective Behavior Grant, 2015-2017*
  • Louisiana Board of Regents Grant, 2014-2017
  • Leakey Foundation Grant, 2010-2013

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French

Overseas Experience

  • Ecuador
  • Costa Rica

Related Experience

  • Reviewer for the American Journal of Primatology, Folia Primatolgica, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Behaviour, Current Biology, Primates, Environmental Anthropology, the Leakey Foundation, and Primate Conservation Incorporated
  • Principal Investigator, MHCs, mate choice and dispersal decisions in wild Cebus capucinus, Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, 2011-
  • Co-Principal Investigator/Co-Director, on-going study (began in 1983) of the life history, behavioral ecology, and conservation biology of white-face capuchins in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, 2004
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Life history and behavioral ecology of male white-faced capuchins in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, 2005-
  • Prinicipal Investigator, Conservation status of cebus albifrons aequatorialis in a tropical dry forest in coastal Ecuador, 2002-2006
  • Principal Investigator, Census of Cebus albifrons and Alauatta palliata populations in the tropical dry forests of central coastal Ecuador, 2002
  • Co-Prinicpal Investigator, Long-term analysis of the effects of forest conservation and regeneration on white faced capuchin and mantled howler monkey populations in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica, 1983-

Selected Publications

  • 2023. Jack KM and Kulick DK. 2023. Primate field research during a pandemic: Lessons learned from the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. American Journal of Primatology, e23551. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23551
  • 2022. Brasington LF, Kulick NK, Hogan JC, Fedigan LM, Jack KM. 2022. The impact of alpha male replacements on reproductive seasonality and synchrony.... American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(1):60-92.
  • 2022. Beehner J, Alfaro, JF, Allen C, et al. [including Buehler MS, Kulick DK, and Jack KM]. 2022 Using an on-site laboratory for fecal steroid analysis in wild white-faced capuchins. General & Comparative Endocrinology 329, 114109.
  • 2022. Wikberg EC, Jack KM, Campos CA, Bergstrom ML, Kawamura S, Fedigan LM. 2022. Should I stay or should I go now: … Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, 88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-022-03197-3
  • 2021. Watzek J, Hauber ME, Jack KM, Murrell JR, Tecot SR, Brosnan SF. 2021. Modeling collective decision-making: insights into collective anti-predator behaviors from an agent-based approach. Behavioral Processes 193, 104530.
  • 2021. Kulick, N.K., Cheves, S., Chaves-Cordero, C. Chaves-Cordero, R. Lopez, S. Romero, L.M. Fedigan, and K.M. Jack 2021. Female-committed infanticide … in wild white-faced capuchins. Primates. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-021-00949-z
  • 2021. Buckner JC, Jack KM, et al. 2021. Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II DR and DQ evolution and variation in wild capuchin species (Cebinae). PLOS One, 16(8): e0254604.
  • 2021. Kavanagh E, Street S, Angwela FO, et al. [including King-Bailey G and Jack KM]. 2021. Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates. Royal Society open science, 8(7): 210873.
  • 2021. LM Fedigan, JD Hogan, FA Campos, U Kalbitzer, and KM Jack, 2021.Costs of male infanticide for female capuchins… American Journal of Primatology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24354
  • 2020. KM Jack, MR Brown, MS Buehler, S Cheves, N Ferrero, NK Kulick, SE Lieber. 2020. Cooperative rescue of a juvenile capuchin (Cebus imitator) from a Boa constrictor. Scientific Reports, 10, 16814.
  • 2020. M Nishikawa, N Ferrero, S Cheves, R Lopez, S Kawamura, LM Fedigan, AD Melin, KM Jack. 2020. Title: Infant cannibalism in wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. Ecology and Evolution. Ecology and Evolution, 10, 23, 12679-12684.
  • 2020. AD Melin, KM Jack, et al. 2020. Primate life history, social dynamics, ecology, and conservation: contributions from long-term research in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Biotropica 52, 6: 1041-1064. (doi:10.1111/btp.12867)
  • 2020. FA Campos, U Kalbitzer, AD Melin, JD Hogan, SE Cheves, Murillo-Chacon E, Guadamuz A, Myers MS, Schaffner CM, Jack KM, Aureli F, Fedigan LM. 2020. Diff. impact of severe drought on infant mortality in … primates. Royal Society Open Science 7 (4),
  • 2019. JD Hogan, KM Jack, FA Campos, U Kalbitzer & Fedigan LM. 2019. Group vs population level demographics… wild white‐faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus imitator). American journal of primatology 81 (7), e23027
  • 2018. Kalbitzer U and Jack KM (co-editors). 2018. Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability: Essays in honour of Linda M. Fedigan. An edited volume in the Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects, book series. Springer:Switzerland