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Alfred Rosenberger

Professor   Department: Anthropology and Archaeology   Location: 2208 Ingersoll Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x2696   Fax: 718-951-3169   Email:

I have for nearly 30 years been involved in studying nonhuman primates, teaching at the college level, working in museums and promoting interest in evolutionary biology and anthropology. This has taken me to a number of countries in South and Central America, studying the behavior and ecology of monkeys in the forest and also looking for their fossils. My primary teaching positions have been at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York Graduate Center, the New York Consortium on Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), and the University of Illinois at Chicago. I also held a variety of research and education outreach positions at the Smithsonian Institution, primarily at the National Zoological Park and the National Museum of Natural History. Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, CITY UNIVERSITY - 1979 (ANTHROPOLOGY) B.A., CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK - 1972 (ANTHROPOLOGY) Areas of Expertise: I am a biological anthropologist interested in the evolution of nonhuman primates. My main research foci deal with the evolution of South and Central American Monkeys and the origins of higher primates. My colleagues and I have an active field program looking for fossils in Southern Argentina. Books and Publications Rosenberger, A.L., M.F. Tejedor, S. Cooke, L. Halenar and Stephen Pekkar. Platyrrhine ecophylogenetics, past and present. In: (P. Garber et al. ed.) South American primates: comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology and conservation. Springer, pp. 69-113. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2009 Tejedor, M. F. and A.L. Rosenberger. Los Primates Fosiles de Santa Cruz. Publicacion del Estadio de las Investigaciones sobre Patrimonio Cultural en Santa Cruz. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2009 Book review: Primate Origins (2007) Ravosa, M.J. and Dagosto, M. (eds.). New York: Springer. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 136: 496-497. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2008 Bromage, T., McMahon, J.M., Thackeray, J.F., Kullmer, O., Hogg, R., Rosenberger, A. L., Schrenk and D.H Enlow. Craniofacial architectural constraints and their importance for reconstructing the early Homo skull KNM-ER 1470. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry Volume 33, Number 1/2008, pp.43-54. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Matthews, L.J. and A.L. Rosenberger. Taxonomic status of the Yellow tailed Woolly Monkey, Lagothrix flavicauda - an object lesson in the implementation of PAUP*. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 137,245-255. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Rosenberger, A.L. and A. Pagano. Frontal fusion: Collapse of another anthropoid synapomorphy? Anatomical Record, 291: 308-317. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Rosenberger, A.L. and L. J. Matthews. Oreonax - not a genus Neotropical Primates. 15, 8-12. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Rosenberger, A.L., R. Hogg & Sai Man Wong. Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea. In: Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: a Tribute to Frederick S.Szalay. E.Sargis & M.Dagosto (eds). Springer, pp. 325-346. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 Rosenberger, A.L., W.C. Hartwig, S. Cooke, L. Halenar. Morphology, Evolution and Phylogeny of Ateles. In: C. Campbell et al. (ed.) The Complete Spider Monkey. Cambridge University Press, pp. 19-49. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008 Tejedor, M. and A.L. Rosenberger. A New Type for Homunuculus patagonicus, Ameghno, 1891. PaleoAnthropology. 2008, 68-82. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Tejedor, M.; Rosenberger, A. & Cartelle, C. Nueva Especie de Alouatta (Primates, Atelinae) del Pleistoceno Tardío de Bahía, Brasil. Ameghiniana, 45: 247-251. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Morphology, Evolution and Phylogeny of Ateles. Rosenberger, A.L., W.C. Hartwig, S. Cooke, L. Halenar. In: C. Campbell et al. (ed.) The Complete Spider Monkey. Cambridge University Press (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 Platyrrhine ecophylogenetics in space and time. Rosenberger, A.L., M.F. Tejedor, S. Cooke and L. Halenar. In: (P. Garber et al. ed.) South American primates: comparative perspectives in the study of behavior, ecology and conservation. Springer (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 Rosenberger, A.L. & R. Hogg. On Bahinia pondaungensis, an alleged early anthropoid. PaleoAnthropology, 2007: 26-30. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007 Rosenberger, A.L., R. Hogg & Sai Man Wong. Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea. In: Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: a tribute to Frederick S.Szalay. E.Sargis & M.Dagosto (Eds). Kluwer. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 Tejedor, M.; Rosenberger, A. & Cartelle, C. Nueva Especie de Alouatta (Primates, Atelinae) del Pleistoceno Tardío de Bahía, Brasil. Ameghiniana. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007 Rosenberger, A.L. Protoanthropoidea (Primates, Simiiformes): a new primate higher taxon and a solution to the Rooneyia problem. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 13: 139-146 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 Tejedor, M.F., A. Tauber, A.L. Rosenberger, C. Swisher III & M. E. Palacios. New Primate Genus from the Miocene of Argentina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(14), 5437-5441. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006 King, R., A.L. Rosenberger & L. Leann Kanda. Artificial Neural Networks and Digital Morphology: A Pilot Study. Folia Primatologica, 76: 303-324. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005 Awards, Honors and Fellowships CUNY Equipment Proposal. Acquisition of a portable environmental scanning electron microscope: applications Geology and Anthropology. J.A. Chamberlain, W.G. Powell, S.U. Aja and A.L. Rosenberger (Grants and Fellowships) 2007 National Endowment for the Humanities. Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. 3D digital analysis of cuneiform tablet production. H.A. Bankoff, A.L. Rosenberger and R. May (Grants and Fellowships) 2007 PSC CUNY. Reconnaissance Fieldtrip to the Cave of the Fossil Monkey, Cuba. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007 Tow Research Travel Faculty Fellowship, Fossil Primates of Patagonia. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007 Elected to be a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. (Awards and Honors) 2006 L.S.B. Leakey Foundation. Identification of isolated hominin molars using 3D geometric morphometric analysis. Co-PIs: M. Singleton, Midwestern University, C. Robinson, Bronx Community College, A.L. Rosenberger, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006 National Science Foundation. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement. Dental Microstructure and Growth in the Cebidae. Russell Hogg, NYCEP (Grants and Fellowships) 2006 National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research on Visualization of Evolutionary Transformation using 3D Morphometric: African Monkeys as a Test Case. Co-PIs: E. Delson, Lehman College, S. Frost, University of Oregon, W. Harcourt-Smith, American Museum of Natural History, A.L. Rosenberger, Brooklyn College and K. St. John, Lehman College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005 PSC CUNY. Who is PV 5000? Fossil Primates of Patagonia. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005 Tow Research Travel Faculty Fellowship Fossils and Subfossils from the Continent and the Caribbean: Rethinking Ateline Evolution. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005