Research & Collections Staff
Through studies of DNA, anatomy, ecology, behavior, paleontology and evolution of plants and animals, the museum's curators, collection managers and students are the front line of understanding life on earth. Similarly, the research by museum archaeologists and their students is uncovering new information about how cultures have changed through time.
Click on an individual's link to learn about their background, research interests, teaching involvement, significant publications and more...
Research & Collections Staff - Listed by Collection
Curators - Listed by Last Name
Collection Managers - Listed by Last Name
Research Associates - Listed by Last Name
Research & Collections Staff - Listed by Collection
Anthropology Registrar
Elise V. LeCompte
Caribbean Archaeology
Environmental Archaeology
Assistant Curator - Kitty F. Emery
Curator Emeritus - Elizabeth S. Wing
Senior Biological Scientist - Irvy Quitmyer
Archaeobotanist - Donna L. Ruhl
Assistant Scientist - Karen J. Walker
Florida Archaeology
Curator - William H. Marquardt
Curator Emeritus - Jerald T. Milanich
Collection Manager - Donna L. Ruhl
Ceramics Technology Laboratory - Ann S. Cordell
Assistant Scientist, Collection Manager - Karen J. Walker
Herbarium (Plants)
Curator & Keeper - Norris H. Williams
Assistant Curator - Nico Cellinese
Collection Manager - Kent Perkins
Senior Biological Scientist - W. Mark Whitten
Herpetology (Reptiles & Amphibians)
Curator - Max Nickerson
Collection Manager - Kenneth L. Krysko
Associate Scientist - L. Richard Franz
Historical Archaeology
Distinguished Research Curator - Kathleen Deagan
Collection Manager - Gifford Waters
History of Science
Curator - Charlotte M. Porter
Ichthyology (Fishes)
Collection Manager - Robert H. Robins
Director, Florida Program for Shark Research - George H. Burgess
Informatics
Associate Curator - Reed Beaman
Assistant Curator - Nico Cellinese
Collection Manager - Kate Rachwal
Invertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Curator, Museum Director - Douglas S. Jones
Collection Manager - Roger W. Portell
Katharine Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation
Eminent Scholar - Scott K. Robinson
Latin American Art and Archaeology
Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
McGuire Center Director - Thomas Emmel
Curator - Jacqueline Miller
Assistant Curator - Jaret Daniels
Assistant Curator - Keith Willmott
Collection Manager - George Austin
Collection Manager - Andrei Sourakov
Malacology/Invertebrate Zoology (Mollusks & Marine Invertebrates)
Collection Manager - John Slapcinsky
Mammals
Assistant Curator - David L. Reed
Collection Manager - Candace McCaffery
Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics
Affiliate Curator - Doug E. Soltis
Collection Manager - Matthew A. Gitzendanner
Ornithology (Birds)
Collection Manager - Andrew W. Kratter
Collection Manager - Thomas Webber
Paleobotany & Palynology (Fossil Plants & Pollen)
Graduate Research Professor - David Dilcher
Curator - Steven R. Manchester
Collection Manager - Hongshan Wang
Research Associate in Palynology - David M. Jarzen
Research Assistant - Terry Lott
Vertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Assistant Curator - Jonathan I. Bloch
Curator Emeritus - S. David Webb
Collection Manager - Richard C. Hulbert
Preparator - Jane Mason
Collections Scientist - Arthur Poyer
Curators - Listed by Last Name
Beaman, Reed - Associate Curator, Informatics
Bloch, Jonathan I. - Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Deagan, Kathleen - Distinguished Research Curator, Historical Archaeology
Cellinese, Nico - Assistant Curator, Informatics & Herbarium
Daniels, Jaret - Assistant Curator, Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Dilcher, David - Graduate Research Professor, Paleobotany (Fossil Plants)
Emery, Kitty F. - Assistant Curator, Environmental Archaeology
Emmel, Thomas - McGuire Center Director, Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Jones, Douglas - Curator, Invertebrate Paleontology (Fossils), Museum Director
Keegan, William - Curator, Caribbean Archaeology
MacFadden, Bruce J. - Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Manchester, Steven R. - Curator, Paleobotany (Fossil Plants)
Marquardt, William - Curator, Florida Archaeology
Milanich, Jerald T. - Curator Emeritus, Florida Archaeology
Milbrath, Susan - Curator, Latin American Art and Archaeology
Miller, Jacqueline - Curator, Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Nickerson, Max - Curator, Herpetology (Reptiles & Amphibians)
Page, Larry M. - Curator, Ichthyology (Fishes)
Paulay, Gustav - Curator, Invertebrate Zoology
Porter, Charlotte M. - Curator, History of Science
Reed, David L. - Assistant Curator, Mammals
Robinson, Scott K. - Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation
Soltis, Doug E. - Affiliate Curator, Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics
Soltis, Pamela S. - Curator, Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics
Steadman, David - Curator, Ornithology (Birds)
Thompson, Fred G. - Curator, Malacology (Mollusks)
Webb, S. David - Curator Emeritus, Vertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Williams, Norris H. - Curator & Keeper, Herbarium (Plants)
Willmott, Keith - Assistant Curator, Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Wing, Elizabeth S. - Curator Emeritus, Environmental Archaeology
Collection Managers - Listed by Last Name
Austin, George - Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Gitzendanner, Matthew A. - Molecular Systematics & Evolutionary Genetics
Hulbert, Richard C. - Vertebrate Paleontology
Kratter, Andrew W. - Ornithology (Birds)
Krysko, Kenneth L. - Herpetology (Reptiles & Amphibians)
McCaffery, Candace - Mammals
Perkins, Kent - Herbarium (Plants)
Portell, Roger W. - Invertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Rachwal, Kate - Informatics
Robins, Robert H. - Ichthyology (Fishes)
Ruhl, Donna L. - North Florida Archaeology
Slapcinsky, John - Malacology (Mollusks)
Sourakov, Andrei - Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)
Walker, Karen J. - South Florida Archaeology & Ethnography
Wang, Hongshan - Paleobotany (Fossil Plants)
Waters, Gifford - Historical Archaeology
Webber, Thomas - Ornithology (Birds)
Research Associates - Listed by Last Name
Burgess, George H. - Director, Florida Program for Shark Research
Cordell, Ann S. - Ceramics Technology Lab
Franz, Richard L. - Associate Scientist (Reptiles & Amphibians)
Jarzen, David M. - Palynology (Fossil Pollen)
LeCompte, Elise V. - Anthropology Registrar
Lott, Terry - Paleobotany (Fossil Plants)
Mason, Jane - Vertebrate Paleontology Preparator (Fossils)
Poyer, Arthur - Vertebrate Paleontology (Fossils)
Quitmyer, Irvy - Environmental Archaeology
Ruhl, Donna L. - Archaeobotanist (Environmental Archaeology)
Walker, Karen - Assistant Scientist (Enviromental & Florida Archaeology)
Whitten, W. Mark - Herbarium (Plants)