Adjunct Researchers

VMNH Senior Fellows

Noel T. Boaz, Ph.D., M.D.
Integrative Centers for Science and Medicine
Martinsville, Virginia

Mitchell Byrd, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Biology
Center for Conservation Biology
College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Virginia

William A. Shear, Ph.D.
Hampden Sydney College
Hampden Sydney, Virginia

Curators Emeriti

James S. Beard, Ph.D.
Department of Earth Sciences
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Martinville, Virginia

Richard L. Hoffman, Ph.D.
Department of Recent Invertebrates
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Martinsville, Virginia

Nancy D. Moncrief, Ph.D.
Department of Mammalogy
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Martinsville, Virginia

Lauck W. Ward, Ph.D.
Department of Invertebrate Paleontology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Martinsville, Virginia

Judith E. Winston, Ph.D.
Department of Marine Bryozoology
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Martinsville, Virginia

VMNH Research Associates

Joseph G. Aylor, Ph.D.
United State Geological Survey - Retired
Gretna, Virginia

Michael B. Barber, Ph.D.
Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Roanoke, Virginia

Brian Lee Beatty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anatomy
New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
New York Institute of Technologoy
Old Westbury, New York

George E. Bennett III, M.A.I.S.
Adjunct Professor
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia

Thomas R. Benzing, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Integrated Science and Technology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia

Raymond L. Bernor, Ph.D.
Department of Anatomy
College of Medicine
Howard University
Washington, D.C.

Robert J. Bodnar, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Geosciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia

Donna Boyd, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Radford University
Radford, Virginia

R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Ph.D.
Research Laboratories of Archaeology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Alton C. Dooley, Jr.
Executive Director
Western Science Center
Hemet, California

Raymond D. Dueser, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Utah State University
Logan, Utah

Arthur V. Evans, D.Sc.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia

Nicholas C. Fraser, Ph.D.
Keeper of Natural Sciences
National Museum Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland

Jason D. Gibson, M.S.
Associate Professor
STEM-HAP Division
Patrick Henry Community College

Joseph Gingerich, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology
Ohio University

Brooke Kathleen Haiar, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Science
Lynchburg College
Lynchburg, Virginia

John W. Happ, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Shenandoah University
Winchester, Virginia

Curt W. Harden
Clemson University

Katherine Harrell, Ph.D.
Project Manager
U.S. Department of State

Alexander K. Hastings, Ph.D.
Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology
Science Museum of Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota

Andrew Heckert, Ph.D.
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina

William S. Henika, M.S.
Virginia Tech Geology Outreach Office
Department of Geosciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia

Richard Highton, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland

Michael F. Johnson, Ph.D.
Rinker Design Associates, P.C.
Falls Church, Virginia

Patricia H. Kelley, Ph.D.
Professor of Geology
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina

Ralph Koziarski, Ph.D.
Senior Archaeologist
AECOM
Germantown, Maryland

Kathryn Lamzik, M.A.
Archaeologist, Cultural Resources
The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
Kansas City, Missouri

Julian J. Lewis, Ph.D.
President
Lewis and Associates
Cave, Karst and Groundwater Biological Consulting
Borden, Indiana

Cynthia M. Liutkus-Pierce, Ph.D.
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina

Marilyn R. London, M.A.
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.

Paul Marek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Entomology
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia

Bernard Means, Ph.D., RPA
Director
Virtual Curation Unit for Recording Archaeological Materials Systematically
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Andrew L. Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geology
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana

Carole L. Nash, Ph.D.
Department of Integrated Science and Technology
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia

Sterling J. Nesbitt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia

Paul E. Olsen, Ph.D.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Columbia University

Isaac Overcast, Ph.D.
California Academy of Sciences

John F. Pagels, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Biology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Dorothy Belle Poli, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Roanoke College
Salem, Virginia

John H. Porter, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

Janet Reid, Ph.D.
Biological Consultant/President
JWR Associates
Trumansburg, New York

Katherine Ridgway
Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Richmond, Virginia

Steven M. Roble, Ph.D.
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Division of Natural Heritage
Richmond, Virginia

William F. Schmachtenberg, Ph.D.
Earth and Environmental Science
Franklin County Schools
Rocky Mount, Virginia

Michelle R. Stocker, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Department of Geosciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia

Curator Emeritus

Richard L. Hoffman
Curator of Recent Invertebrates
Virginia Museum of Natural History
Martinsville, Virginia

Research Associates

Brian J. Axsmith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, Alabama

C. Clifford Boyd, Ph.D.
Professor—Anthropological Sciences
Radford University Forensic Science Institute
Radford University
Radford, Virginia

Ralph P. Eckerlin, Ph.D.
Natural Sciences, Mathematics, & Engineering Division, Retired
Northern Virginia Community College
Annandale, Virginia

John R. Holsinger, Ph.D.
Department of Biological Sciences
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

Jerry N. McDonald, Ph.D.
McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
Granville, Ohio

Frank K. McKinney
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University

Paul Ragland, Ph.D.

Rowland M. Shelley, Ph.D.
North Carolina State Museum of Natural History
Raleigh, North Carolina

Robert J. Tracy, Ph.D.
Department of Geological Sciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia