Vicki Bentley-Condit, Associate Professor
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Vicki K. Bentley-Condit grew up in Simpsonville, a small rural-Kentucky town about half-way between Louisville and Frankfort. She received her BA, summa cum laude, in psychology from the University of Louisville in 1987 and her PhD in anthropology from Emory University, Atlanta in 1995. The title of her dissertation was "Infant-Adult Male Interactions as Adult Female Reproductive Strategies in Yellow Baboons (Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus)" which is a terribly wordy way to say that she is a primatologist who studies nonhuman primate social behaviors. She conducted her dissertation research at the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya, where she spent a year following yellow baboons around (a la J. Goodall) and recording the most intimate details of their lives. She is currently in the process of establishing a research site somewhat closer to home (Texas) where she can continue to investigate the roles of infants in adult social interactions and where she hopes to be able to involve students as research assistants and primatology field school participants. Ms. Bentley-Condit teaches the Introduction to Anthropology, Biological Basis of Human Behavior, Human Ecology and Adaptation, and African Cultures courses as well as special-topic courses on Primate Behavior and Primate Ecology and Social Organization. |
Professor Bentley-Condit's Curriculum Vita
Fall 2006 Syllabi: