Faculty in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Arkhat Abzhanov
Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Andrew A. Biewener
Charles P. Lyman Professor of Biology

Kirsten Bomblies
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Colleen M. Cavanaugh
Edward C. Jeffrey Professor of Biology
Associate of Leverett House

Stacey Combes
Assistant Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Charles C. Davis
Professor
Curator of Vascular Plants

Michael Desai
Assistant Professor of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology

Pamela Diggle
Visiting Professor

Jacques Dumais
Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Scott V. Edwards
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Ornithology
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Cassandra G. Extavour
Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Brian D. Farrell (Sabbatical for academic year 2011-12)
Professor of Biology
Curator of Entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

David R. Foster
Director of the Harvard Forest
Senior Lecturer on Biology

William (Ned) Friedman
Arnold Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

Peter R. Girguis
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences

Gonzalo Giribet
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Invertebrates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

David A. Haig
George Putnam Professor of Biology and Harvard College Professor

James Hanken
Professor of Biology and Curator of Herpetology
Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Daniel L. Hartl
Higgins Professor of Biology

Hopi E. Hoekstra (Teaching leave for spring 2012)
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

N. Michele Holbrook
Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry

Farish A. Jenkins, Jr.
Professor of Biology
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Professor of Anatomy in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Medical School)

Andrew H. Knoll
Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Curator of the Paleobotanical Collections in the Harvard University Herbaria

Elena M. Kramer (Sabbatical for spring term 2012)
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

George V. Lauder (Sabbatical for academic year 2011-12)
Professor of Biology
Curator of Ichthyology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Henry Bryant Bigelow Professor of Icthyology

Jonathan Losos
Monique and Philip Lehner Professor for the Study of Latin America
Curator in Herpetology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

L. Mahadevan
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics (SEAS)

James Mallet
Distinguished Lecturer

Christopher Marx
Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

James J. McCarthy
Professor of Biological Oceanography
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography
Master of Pforzheimer House
Acting Curator of the Malacology Department in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Paul R. Moorcroft (Sabbatical for academic year 2011-12)
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Martin A. Nowak
Professor of Mathematics and Biology
Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics

Bence Patrik Olveczky (Teaching leave for spring 2012)
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Donald H. Pfister
Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany
Curator of the Farlow Library and Herbarium
Honorary Associate and Former Master of Kirkland House
Dean of Harvard Summer School
Acting Director, Harvard University Herbaria

Naomi E. Pierce
Sidney A. and John H. Hessel Professor of Biology
Curator of Lepidoptera in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows

Anne Pringle (Radcliffe leave for the academic year 2011-12)
Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Andrew Richardson
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Pardis Sabeti
Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

John Wakeley
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Department Chair of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Robert M. Woollacott (Sabbatical for spring term 2012)
Professor of Biology
Curator of Marine Invertebrates in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Yun Zhang
Associate Professor of Biology


Faculty Affiliates of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

William H. Bossert
David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science

Arthur L. Lage
Associate Professor of Surgery (Medical School)

Daniel E. Lieberman
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology

Maryellen Ruvolo
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology


Emeriti Faculty of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Peter Ashton

Kenneth Boss

A.W. Crompton

Herbert W. Levi

Richard C. Lewontin

Otto T. Solbrig

P. B. Tomlinson

Edward O. Wilson