Curriculum Vitae

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
370 ESC
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
U.S.A.
thomas.near@yale.edu
Telephone: (203) 432-3002

Education

Ph.D. University of Illinois, 2000 (Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution)
M.S. Northern Illinois University, 1995 (Biological Sciences)
B.S. Northern Illinois University, 1993 (Biological Sciences)
B.A. Northern Illinois University, 1993 (History)

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2011-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2006-June 2011

Assistant Curator, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University, New Haven, CT, August 2006-present

Fellow of Saybrook College
Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 2006-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 2003-June 2006

Phylogenetics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Evolution and Ecology
University of California, Davis, July 2002-July 2003

Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Davis, July 2000-July 2002

Academic Awards

2009, Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary Alumni Award.

2000, 1997 Ranked as Outstanding Teaching Assistant in student evaluations
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

1999 H. H. Ross Memorial Fund Citation.

1997 ASIH Storer Award in Ichthyology for outstanding student poster presentation.  American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting, Seattle, Washington, 1997.

1995 Outstanding Student Presentation Award. American Society of Parasitologists meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995.