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Christopher K Starr

Curriculum Vitae

(Updated January 2009)

 

Birthdate and place  16 August 1949, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

 

Citizenship  Canadian; permanent resident of Trinidad & Tobago

 

 

Education

 Early schooling in Canada, USA and Germany

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, BA (Biology) 1973

University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, MA (Entomology) 1976

University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, PhD (Entomology) 1981

 

 

Postdoctoral experience

University of the West Indies, 1991-present, Senior Lecturer in Entomology

National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 1990-1991, Visiting Specialist

University of Georgia, 1988-1990, Postdoctoral Associate in Horticulture

Smithsonian Institution, 1987-88, Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology

De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 1983-87, Professorial Lecturer and Associate Professor of Biology

Visayas State College of Agriculture, Philippines, 1981-83, Associate Professor of Entomology

 

 

Membership in scholarly societies

American Arachnological Society

American Name Society

Association of Caribbean Historians

Cambridge Entomological Club

Entomological Society of Washington

International Society of Hymenopterists

International Union for the Study of Social Insects

Sigma Xi

 

 

Language

Native language English. 

Reading knowledge of most major modern Germanic and Romance languages, good speaking knowledge of some. 

Basic reading knowledge of Russian.

 

 

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