James M. Calcagno
 | Professor Department Anthropology Ph.D. 1984 University of Kansas Paleoanthropology and Primatology Phone: 773.508.3472 E-mail: jcalcag@luc.edu |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Calcagno is a biological anthropologist with research interests in paleoanthropology and primatology. Most recently, he guest-edited an issue of the American Anthropologist focusing on biological anthropology, including historical perspectives on current issues, connections within the entire discipline of anthropology and future directions of the subdiscipline. He continues to conduct research on captive primate behavior. Dr. Calcagno has conducted fieldwork in South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Denmark and England. He has assisted graduate students whose interests overlap with his own research endeavors in anthropology, including areas such as animal behavior, conservation biology, behavioral enrichment, evolutionary theory and paleontology.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
2003 Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology. American Anthropologist, 105(1):6-15.2002 Longitudinal study of delayed reproductive success in a pair of white-cheeked gibbons (Hylobates leucogenys). (Co-authored with K Lukas, RT Barkauskas, SA Maher, BA Jacobs, JE Bauman, & AJ Henderson) Zoo Biology, 21:413-434.