Julie A. Wieczkowski, Ph.D.

Ph.D., University of Georgia

Julie Wieczkowski, a biological anthropologist, joined the Anthropology Department in fall 2008. Wieczkowski’s teaching responsibilities include ANT 100 Human Origins, ANT 321 Primate Ecology and Conservation, ANT 322 Research Methods in Primatology, ANT 323 Disease and Global Health, ANT 324 Human Skeleton, and ANT 418 Seminar in Biological Anthropology. 

Dr. Wieczkowski’s research interests are in primate ecology and conservation.  She has conducted research on the Tana River mangabey (Cercocebus galeritus), an endangered monkey found only in Kenya, since 1998. The Tana River mangabey is a critically endangered monkey found in fragmented forests in Kenya; as such, Wieczkowski studies the mangabey’s responses to habitat change. She also investigates the mangabey’s diet of seeds, through both anatomical and behavioral studies.