Title(s): Assistant Professor of Anatomy Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department(s): Anatomy
Education: 2006, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis 2003, A.M., Washington University in St. Louis 2000, M.A., University of Toronto 1999, H.B.Sc., University of Toronto
Muldoon KM (submitted) Paleoenvironment of Ankilitelo Cave (late Holocene, southwestern Madagascar): implications for the extinction of giant lemurs.
Samonds KE, Parent SN, Muldoon KM, Crowley BE, and Godfrey LR (submitted) Picking through the trash: preparation of surrounding rock matrix yields a diverse collection of mammalian subfossils.
Muldoon KM and Goodman SM (submitted) Ecological biogeography of Malagasy non-volant mammals: community structure is correlated with habitat.
Godfrey LR, Schwartz GT, Jungers WL, Catlett KK, Samonds KE, King SJ, Muldoon KM, Irwin MT, and Burney DA (in press) Anthropoid analogues? Life history variation in Madagascar’s giant extinct lemurs. In J. Masters, M. Gamba, and F. Genin (eds.) Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology. New York: Springer.
Muldoon KM, DeBlieux DD, Simons EL, and Chatrath PS (2009) The subfossil occurrence and paleoecological significance of small mammals at Ankilitelo Cave, southwestern Madagascar. Journal of Mammalogy 90, 1111-1131
Muldoon KM and Simons EL (2007) Ecogeographic size variation in small-bodied subfossil primates from Ankilitelo, SW Madagascar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 134, 152-161.
Kelley EA, Sussman RW, and Muldoon KM (2007) The status of lemur species at Antserananomby: an update. Primate Conservation 22, 71-77.
Simons EL, Simons VFH, Chatrath PS, Muldoon KM, Oliphant M, Pistole N, Savas C (2004) Research on subfossils in southwestern Madagascar and Ankilitelo Cave. Lemur News 9, 12-16
Kappelman J, Rasmussen DT, Sanders WJ, Feseha M, Bown TM, Copeland P, Crabaugh J, Fleagle JG Glantz M, Gordon A, Jacobs B, Maga M, Muldoon KM, Pan A, Pyne L, Richmond B, Ryan T, Seiffert ER, Sen S, Todd L, Wiemann MC, and Winkler A. (2003) New Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and the pattern and timing of faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia. Nature 426, 549-552
Muldoon KM and Gunnell GF (2002) Omomyid primates (Tarsiiformes) from the early middle Eocene at South Pass, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Human Evolution 43, 479-511
Professional Interests:
Teaching: Evolutionary perspectives on human anatomy and human variation; Development of innovative teaching tools
Research: Primate evolution and ecology; Vertebrate paleontology, Paleoecology and biogeography; Paleobiology; Conservation; Madagascar
Courses Taught:
Human Anatomy and Embryology (ANAT 111 & 112)
Human Osteology (ANTH 043)
Primate Extinctions: Past and Present (ANTH 50.09)
Grant Information:
2009, The Claire Garber Goodman Fund
2009, American Association of Physical Anthropology Professional Development Grant
2008, The Claire Garber Goodman Fund
2007, American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant