Dr. Colin Chapman is a professor of Anthropology at McGill University. He received his joint Ph.D. in the Departments of Anthropology and Zoology at the University of Alberta. He spent 2 years at McGill and 3 years at Harvard University doing post-doctoral research. Since 1990 he has served as an Honourary lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Makerere University Uganda; and, since 1995, he has been an associate scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. Colin also served as a faculty member in Zoology at the University of Florida for 11 years, and returned to McGill in 2004 to take up a professorship in the Department of Anthropology and McGill School of Environment, where he holds a Canada Research Chair position in Primate Ecology and Conservation.
Colin Chapman conducts much of his research in Kibale National Park, Uganda. In general, his research focuses on how the environment influences primate abundance and social organization and how primates affect their environment through seed dispersal and herbivory. Given the plight of primates around the world, he applies this information to find novel solutions to the conservation of this unique group of animals.
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