Alfred Rosenberger
Professor
Anthropology and Archaeology
Location: 2208 Ingersoll Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2696
Fax: 718.951.3169
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For nearly 30 years, Alfred Rosenberger has 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 him 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. His primary teaching positions have been at Brooklyn College, the CUNY Graduate Center, the New York Consortium on Evolutionary Primatology, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Rosenberger 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:
Ph.D., City University - 1979 (Anthropology)
B.A., City College of New York (CUNY) - 1972 (Anthropology)
Areas of Expertise:
Rosenberger is a biological anthropologist interested in the evolution of nonhuman primates. His main research foci deal with the evolution of South and Central American monkeys and the origins of higher primates. He and his colleagues have an active field program looking for fossils in southern Argentina and the Caribbean.
Books and Publications
"Hitting on a Fossil Skull in the Subaquatic Underworld." AnthroQuest 29: 1,11. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012
"Evolutionary Morphology, Platyrrhine Evolution and Systematics." Anatomical Record 294: 1955-74. (Special volume, "Evolutionary and Functional Morphology of New World Monkeys." Ed. A.L. Rosenberger.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Evolutionary Morphology, Platyrrhine Evolution and Systematics." Anatomical Record 294: 1955-74. (Special volume, "Evolutionary and Functional Morphology of New World Monkeys." Ed. A.L. Rosenberger.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Functional Morphology, Fossils and the Origins of the Tarsier and Anthropoid Clades." The World at the Time of Messel: Puzzles in Paleobiology, Paleoenvironment, and the History of Early Primates: 22nd International Senckenberg Conference. Eds. T. Lehmann and S.K. Schaal. Senckenberg Gesellschaft fur Naturforschung. 147-48. (Books and Publications: Abstract) 2011
"Strigorhysis: Another Large-eyed Eocene North American Fossil Tarsiiform." Anatomical Record 294: 797-812. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Cooke, S.B., A.L. Rosenberger and S. Tuvey. "An Extinct Monkey From Haiti and the Origins of the Greater Antillean Primates." PNAS. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Frost, S., A.L. Rosenberger and W.C. Hartwig. "Old World Monkeys." Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group. Macmillan Reference Ltd. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011
Hartwig, W.G., A.L. Rosenberger , M. Norconk and M. Young Owl. "Relative Brain Size, Gut Size and Evolution in New World Monkeys." Anatomical Record 294: 2207-21. (Special volume, "Evolutionary and Functional Morphology of New World Monkeys." Ed. A.L. Rosenberger.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Maiolino, S., D. Boyer and A.L. Rosenberger. "Morphological Correlates of the Grooming Claw in Distal Phalanges of Platyrrhines and Other Primates: A Preliminary Study." Anatomical Record 294: 1975-90. (Special volume, "Evolutionary and Functional Morphology of New World Monkeys." Ed. A.L. Rosenberger.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Rosenberger, A.L., G. Gunnell and R.L. Ciochon. "The Anthropoid-Like Face of Siamopithecus: Cherry Picking Trees, Phylogenetic Corroboration, and the Adapiform-Anthropoid Hypothesis." Anatomical Record. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Rosenberger, A.L., L. Halenar and S.B. Cooke. "The Making of Platyrrhine Semi-folivores: Models for the Evolution of Folivory in Primates." Anatomical Record 294: 2112?-30. (Special volume, "Evolutionary and Functional Morphology of New World Monkeys." Ed. A.L. Rosenberger.) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Rosenberger, A.L., S. B. Cooke, R. Rímoli, X. Ni and Luis Cardoso. "First Skull of Antillothrix bernenesis, an Extinct Relict Monkey From the Dominican Republic." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 67-74. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
Singleton, M., A.L. Rosenberger, C. Robinson and R. O'Neill. "Allometric and Metameric Shape Variation in Pan Mandibular Molars: A Digital Morphometric Analysis." Anatomical Record 294: 322-34. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011
"Adaptive Profile Versus Adaptive Specialization: Fossils and Gumivory in Primate Evolution." The Evolution of Exudativory in Primates. Eds. A. Burrows and L. Nash. Springer. 273-96. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2010
"Platyrrhines, PAUP, Parallelism and the Long Lineage Hypothesis: A Reply to Kay et al. (2008)." Journal of Human Evolution 59: 214-17. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"The Skull of Tarsius: Functional Morphology, Eyeballs and the Nonpursuit Predatory Lifestyle." International Journal of Primatology 31: 1032-54. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
Rosenberger, A.L., S.B. Cooke, R. Rímoli, X. Ni and Luis Cardoso. "First Skull of Antillothrix Bernenesis, an Extinct Relict Monkey From the Dominican Republic." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 1549-56. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
Singleton, M., A.L. Rosenberger, C. Robinson and R. O'Neil. "Allometric and Metameric Shape Variation in Pan Mandibular Molars: A Digital Morphometric Analysis." Anatomical Record 294: 322-34. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010
"History of Primatology: The Alpha Taxonomist's View." Evolutionary Anthropoogy 18: 79. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009
"The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestors." American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009
Rosenberger, A.L., M.F. Tejedor, S. Cooke, L. Halenar and Stephen Pekkar. "Platyrrhine ecophylogenetics, Past and Present." South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Conservation. Eds. P. Garber et al. Springer. 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
Primate Origins, eds. M.J. Ravosa and M. Dagosto. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 136: 496-97. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008
Bromage, T., J.M. McMahon, J.F. Thackeray, O. Kullmer, R. Hogg, A.L. Rosenberger, 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 33.1: 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: 245-55. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Rosenberger, A.L. and A. Pagano. "Frontal Fusion: Collapse of Another Anthropoid Synapomorphy?" Anatomical Record 291: 308-17. (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 and Sai Man Wong. "Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea." Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. Eds. E. Sargis and M. Dagosto. Springer. 325-46. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
Rosenberger, A.L., W.C. Hartwig, S. Cooke and L. Halenar. "Morphology, Evolution and Phylogeny of Ateles." The Complete Spider Monkey. Eds. C. Campbell et al. Cambridge University Press. 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., A. Rosenberger and C. Cartelle. "Nueva Especie de Alouatta (Primates, Atelinae) del Pleistoceno Tardío de Bahía, Brasil." Ameghiniana 45: 247-51. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008
Rosenberger, A.L. and R. Hogg. "On Bahinia pondaungensis, an Alleged Early Anthropoid." PaleoAnthropology 2007: 26-30. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Rosenberger, A.L., M.F. Tejedor, S. Cooke and L. Halenar. "Platyrrhine ecophylogenetics in Space and Time." South American Primates: Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Conservation. Eds. P. Garber et al. Springer. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
Rosenberger, A.L., R. Hogg and Sai Man Wong. "Rooneyia, Postorbital Closure, and the Beginnings of the Age of Anthropoidea." Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology: A Tribute to Frederick S. Szalay. Eds. E. Sargis and M. Dagosto. Kluwer. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
Rosenberger, A.L., W.C. Hartwig, S. Cooke and L. Halenar. "Morphology, Evolution and Phylogeny of Ateles." The Complete Spider Monkey. Eds. C. Campbell et al. Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007
"Protoanthropoidea (Primates, Simiiformes): A New Primate Higher Taxon and a Solution to the Rooneyia Problem." Journal of Mammalian Evolution 13: 139-46. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Tejedor, M.F., A. Tauber, A.L. Rosenberger, C. Swisher III and M.E. Palacios. "New Primate Genus From the Miocene of Argentina." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103.14: 5437-41. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
King, R., A.L. Rosenberger and L. Leann Kanda. "Artificial Neural Networks and Digital Morphology: A Pilot Study." Folia Primatologica 76: 303-24. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
CUNY Equipment Proposal, for "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, co-principal investigators. (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, for "3D Digital Analysis of Cuneiform Tablet Production." H.A. Bankoff, A.L. Rosenberger and R. May, co-principal investigators.
(Grants and Fellowships) 2007
PSC CUNY, for "Reconnaissance Fieldtrip to the Cave of the Fossil Monkey, Cuba." (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
Tow Research Travel Faculty Fellowship, for "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, for "Identification of Isolated Hominin Molars Using 3D Geometric Morphometric Analysis." M. Singleton, C. Robinson and A.L. Rosenberger, co-principal investigators. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
National Science Foundation, for doctoral dissertation improvement, "Dental Microstructure and Growth in the Cebidae." Russell Hogg, NYCEP. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006
National Science Foundation, for "Collaborative Research on Visualization of Evolutionary Transformation Using 3D Morphometric: African Monkeys as a Test Case." A.L. Rosenberger, E. Delson, S. Frost, W. Harcourt-Smith and K. St. John, co-principal investigators. (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
PSC CUNY, for "Who Is PV 5000? Fossil Primates of Patagonia."
(Grants and Fellowships) 2005
Tow Research Travel Faculty Fellowship, for "Fossils and Subfossils From the Continent and the Caribbean: Rethinking Ateline Evolution." (Grants and Fellowships) 2005
