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Joel L. Cracraft
Division of Vertebrate Zoology - Ornithology
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West @ 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192


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cracraft@amnh.org

 

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  • Lamont Curator of Birds and Curator in Charge
    Division of Vertebrate Zoology - Ornithology
    American Museum of Natural History


  • Adjunct Professor
    Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
    Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
    Columbia University, New York


  • Adjunct Professor of Biology
    The City University of New York
    (as of June 2006)

  • Joel's CV can be downloaded here
 
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:
    • Higher-level relationships of birds
    • Radiation of the corvidan songbirds
    • Diversification in the Birds of Paradise (Paradisaeidae)
    • Diversification and the evolution of biotas
    • Systematic and biogeographic theory and methods

    OTHER INTERESTS:

    • Assembling the Tree of Life
    • Systematics science policy and Systematics Agenda 2000 International
    • Biodiversity and conservation
    • Biodiversity science policy and DIVERSITAS