Stephanie Poindexter

PhD

Stephanie Poindexter.

Stephanie Poindexter

PhD

Stephanie Poindexter

PhD

Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences

Research Topics

Biological Anthropology; Movement Ecology; Primate Behavioral Ecology; Primate Evolution; Primate Conservation; Sensory Evolution

About

I am a biological anthropologist specialized in primatology. My research interests are broadly related to how primates navigate and utilize their habitats. I employ field, lab, and desk-based methods to answer questions about movement, morphology, cognition, and conservation. 

Education

  • PhD, Oxford Brookes University
  • MA, Oxford Brookes University
  • BA, Washington University in St. Louis

Courses Offered

Undergraduate Courses

  • APY 104 | Introduction to Biological Anthropology
  • APY 341 | Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • APY 357 | Primate Diversity
  • APY 421 | Comparative Human Life History
  • APY 444 | Behavioral Research Methods

Graduate Courses
  • APY 547 | Behavioral Research Methods

Selected Publications

  • Maynard, K.Q., Birot, H., Campera, M., Imron, M.A., Jasso del Toro, C., Poindexter, S., and Nekaris, K.A.I. 2021. Slow learning of feeding skills in a nocturnal extractive forager. Animal Behaviour. 
  • Poindexter SA and Garrett EC. 2020. Particle deposition and sensory drive. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 
  • Rich AM, Poindexter S, Lai A, Steiniche TA, Mutageki R, Wasserman MD. 2020. Surveying Mammals in a Protected Forest Fragment with Potential for Wider Landscape Connectivity. African Journal of Ecology.
  • Nekaris KAI, Weldon A, Imron MA, Maynard KQ, Nijman V, Poindexter SA, Morcatty TQ. 2019. Venom in furs: facial masks as aposematic signals in a venomous mammal. Toxins. 11, 93.
  • Poindexter SA, Reinhardt KD, Nijman V, and Nekaris KAI. 2018. Slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.) display evidence of handedness in the wild and in captivity.  Laterality:  Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition. 6, pp. 705-721.
  • Poindexter S and Nekaris KAI. 2017. Vertical clingers and gougers: rapid acquisition of adult limb proportions facilitates feeding behaviours in young Javan slow lorises (Nycticebus javanicus). Mammalian Biology-Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde. 87, pp. 40-49.
  • Nekaris KAI, Poindexter S, Reinhardt KD, Sigaud M, Cabana F, Wirdateti W, and Nijman V. 2017. Co-existence between primates and humans in a dynamic agroforestry landscape in West Java. International Journal of Primatology. 38(2), pp.303-320.
  • Poindexter S, Khoa DD, and Nekaris KAI. 2016. The ranging patterns of translocated pygmy slow lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus) in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology. 2(5), pp.  25-33.