Marc Hauser , PhD
Harvard College Professor
Professor of Psychology, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Biological Anthropology
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education and Program in Neurosciences
Co-Director, Mind, Brain and Behavior Program
Fellow, Center for Ethics
Director, Cognitive Evolution Lab

2005-

 

2005-

 

2003-

 

2003-

 

2001- 

 

1998- 

 

1995-1998 

 

 

Faculty Member
Department of Biological Anthropology
Harvard University

Faculty Member
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

Faculty Associate
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Harvard University

Co-Director (with Elizabeth Spelke)
Harvard's Mind, Brain, and Behavior Program

Adjunct Professor
Graduate School of Education
Harvard University

Professor
Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience
Harvard University

Associate Professor
Depts. of Psychology, Anthropology,
and Program in Neuroscience
Harvard University

1995-

 

1996-

 

1992-1994

 

 

1991-1992

 

1989-1992

 

1988-1989

 

1987-1988

 

 

Member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty for the Speech and
Hearing Sciences Program
Mass General Hospital-Harvard-MIT

Member of the Interdisciplinary Faculty of the Mind,
Brain and Behavior Program
Harvard University

Assistant Professor
Departments of Anthropology, Psychology and
Program in Neuroscience
Harvard University

Lecturer & Research Associate
Departments of Psychology & Zoology
University of California, Davis

Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Zoology
University of California, Davis

Postdoctoral fellow
Rockefeller University
Field Research Center

Postdoctoral fellow
Evolution and Human Behavior Program
University of Michigan

Honorary Lecturer
Dept. of Zoology, Makerere University
Kampala, Uganda

Education:

1989-1992

 

1988-1989 

 

1987-1988

 

1982-1987

 

1977-1981

University of California, Davis
Post-doctoral fellow
(Advisor: P. Marler)

Rockefeller University, Millbrook
Post-doctoral fellow
(Advisor: P. Marler)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Post-doctoral fellow
(Advisor: R. Wrangham)

University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D.
(Advisors: R. Seyfarth & D. Cheney)

Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
BS
(Advisor: D. Candland)

Teaching Experience:

1992-present  Anthropology & Psychology Departments, Harvard University:
Evolution and Human Nature (Science B-29; undergrad core science course co-taught with Irv DeVore & Richard Wrangham); Human behavioral biology (lower-level undergrad); The evolution of communication (upper-level undergrad); Field and lab methods in behavioral biology (upper-level undergraduate); Evolution of cognition (graduate seminar, co-taught with S. Pinker of MIT); Biology of morality (undergrad seminar for the Mind, Brain & Behavior Program); Concepts & Categories (seminar, co-taught with A. Caramazza); Theory and Evidence in Cognitive and Neuroscience (seminar co-taught with A. Caramazza); Evolutionary Ethics (undergrad/grad seminar)

1992 Anthropology, Psychology & Zoology Departments, Univ. California, Davis
Comparative cognition seminar (graduate students)

1991-1992 Psychology Department, University of California, Davis
Psychobiology (undergraduates)
Seminar in animal cognition (graduate students)

1989-1992 Zoology Department, University of California, Davis, California
Behavioral Ecology Seminar (faculty and post-docs)

1988 Zoology Department, Makerere University , Kampala, Uganda
Statistics and Methods for Behavioral Biologists (graduate students)
Animal Behavior (undergraduates)

Graduate Students:

1. Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
Brenda McGowan (PhD 1994); co-advised with R. Wrangham; Currently a Research Professor at UC-Davis, California
Adrian Treves (PhD 1997); co-advised with R. Wrangham; Currently a Research Associate at U. Wisconsin-Madison
Mike Wilson (2001); currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota
Brian Hare (PhD 2003); co-advised with R. Wrangham; currently an Assistant Professor at Duke University
Rebecca Coughlin (2002-present); co-advised with R. Wrangham
Brian Wood (2005-present);co-advised with Frank Marlowe
Corin Apicella (2005-present); co-advised with Frank Marlowe
Katherine McAuliffe (2006-present); co-advsied with R. Wrangham

2. Psychology, Harvard University
Jerald Kralik (PhD 1998); currently an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College
Dan Weiss (PhD 2000); currently an Assistant Professor at Penn State in the Dept. of Psychology
Laurie Santos (PhD 2003); currently an Assistant Professor, Dept. Psychology, Yale University (2002-)
Cory Miller (PhD 1999-2003); Currently an Assistant Professor at UCSD (2008-)
Ricardo Gil da Costa (1999-2005); Currently a post-doc at the Salk Institute
Justin Wood (PhD 2008); currently an Assistant Professor at USC
Sang Ah Lee (2004-present); co-advised with E. Spelke
Fiery Cushman (2004-2007)
Liane Young (PhD 2008); currently a post-doc at MIT with R. Saxe

3. Economics, Harvard University
Keith Chen (PhD 2002); Currently an Assistant Professor at the Business School at Yale University

4. Brain & Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Claudia Uller (PhD 1997; co-advisor with Susan Carey); current, Asst. Professor, Univ. Essex
Joshua McDermott (2002-2007); co-advised with Ted Adelson;currently a post-doc at the University of Minnesota

Since 1992, I have been on 46 undergraduate honor thesis committees, and 33 PhD thesis committees. Each year, I have between 2-5 undergraduate honors students from Psychology, Biological Anthropology, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, and the MBB Program.

 

Post-Doctoral Students:

Linda Anderson (1995); currently, Associate Director, Internet Design Co., San Francisco, CA
Julia Fischer (1996); currently,  Professor, German Primate Center
William Tecumseh Fitch (1996-2000); currently, Lecturer, St. Andrews University, Scotland.
Jerald Kralik (1998-1999); currently, Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College
Asif Ghazanfar (1998-2001); currently, Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the Dept. of Psychology
Stephane Gouteux (2001)
Ruth Tincoff (2001- 2004); Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology, Wellesley College
Roian Egnor (2001-2007); currently a Research Professor at Janelia Farms (2008-)
Joanna Bryson (2001-2002); Lecturer, University of Bath, Dept. of Computer Sciences
Jeff Stevens (2003-2006); currently a Research Professor at Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
Alberto Palleroni (2002-2007); currently at the Nature Conservancy
David Feinberg (2005-2007); currently an Assistant Professor at McMaster University
Ansgar Endress (2007-present)
Bryce Huebner (2008-present)
Brian Russ (2008-present)

Current Research:

2008- Experiments on economic decision making, action perception, and social cognition in gorillas, Franklin Park Zoo

2006- Experiments on acoustic communication, action perception, and economic decision making in chimpanzees, Tchimpounga, Congo

2003- Experiments on moral judgments and decision-making, including tests of infants and children, anthropological populations, and patient populations; collaborators include Antonio Damasio, Antoine Bechara, Alan Leslie, David Skuse, Frank Marlowe, Linda Abarbanell, and Maaike Cima.

2003-Web-based experiments on moral intuitions, including tests of patient populations in collaboration with Drs. Antonio Damasio, Ralph Adolphs, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and James Blair.

2003-2006 Experiments on oncept Acquisition, language processing, cooperation, and communication in common marmosets.

1999-2001- Experiments and observations on vocal communication and conceptual representation in captive vervet monkeys (Harvard University) 

1998-2003 Collaborative project with Drs. E. Newport, R. Aslin & R. Jacobs (U. Rochester) on constraints on learning and the role of statistical inferences.

1997-2002 Collaborative project with Dr. Jacques Mehler (LSCP-France) on language processing human infants and monkeys

1996-1999 Collaborative project with Dr. R. Wrangham (Harvard) on inter-community aggression and vocal communication in chimpanzees of the Kibale Forest, Uganda.

1995-2007 Collaborative project with Drs. S. Carey (NYU) and E. Spelke (Harvard) on the origins of numerical competence in human infants and nonhuman primates.

1994- Experiments and observation on vocal communication and acoustic perception in captive cotton-top tamarins and vervet monkeys

1992- Experiments on knowledge acquisition and concept formation in captive cotton-top tamarins (Harvard University).

1988- Long-term project on the mechanisms underlying vocal production and perception in rhesus macaques; research is being conducted on Cayo Santiago and in Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico.

Advisory and Technical Committees:

2005 Editorial Board, Social Neuroscience

2003-Editorial Board, Language Learning and Development

2002- Editorial Board, Review of General Psychology

2002-Associate Editor, Cognition

2001- Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychology

2000- NSF Science Education Directorate; Involved with teaching in local schools

1998- Editorial Board, Trends in Cognitive Science

1998-2003- Scientific Board, Fyssen Foundation, Paris, France

1997- Editorial Board, Animal Cognition

1997-2001- Editorial Board, Cognition

1996-2003- Series Editor for Aldine deGruyter Press, "Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior"

1995-2001- Consultant for Bradford Books/MIT Press

1993- Mind, Brain & Behavior Program, Harvard University

1991- Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

1991- Animal Bioacoustics Technical Committee, Acoustical Society of America

1989-2000- Consulting Editor, American Journal of Primatology

Grants:

External:
Wrangham, R.W. and Hauser, M.D. (1987-1989). Ecological constraints on chimpanzee social dynamics. NSF ($118,000).

Hauser, M.D. and Wrangham, R.W. (1988). The use of contact calls in chimpanzees for conversations. ($5000).

Hauser, M.D. (1989-91): NRSA, NIH post-doc; Rockefeller University/University of California-Davis

Hauser, M.D. (1990-91). Food calling in rhesus monkeys. National Geographic Society ($18,000).

Hauser, M. (1993-1999). Acoustic and visual communication in primates. NSF Young Investigator Award. ($300,000)

Hauser, M. (1994-1996). Origins of hemispheric asymmetries underlying primate vocal and facial expressions. Leakey Foundation ($7,500)

Hauser, M. (1994-1996). Origins of primate hemispheric asymmetries. Wenner-Gren Foundation ($5000)

Hauser, M. and Wrangham, R. (1996-1999). Inter-community aggression in wild chimpanzees. Leakey Foundation ($105,000)

Hauser, M. (1997-2000). Hemispheric asymmetries underlying vocal and facial expressions in primates. NSF ($162,094)

Hauser, M. and Carey, S. (1997-2000). Comparative study of numerical representations: human infants and nonhuman primates". NSF ($270,000)

Aslin, R., Hauser, M., Jacobs, R., & Newport, E. (1998-2001). Statistical learning and its constraints. Learning in Intelligent Systems, NSF ($800,000)

Spelke, E.S., Hauser, M.D., Carey, S. & Kanwisher, N. (2001-2004). Sources of mathematical knowledge. ROLE-NSF ($1,518,000)

Hauser, M.D. (2002). The role of acoustic cues in rhesus monkey mate attraction.  Leakey Foundation, $7400

Hauser, M.D. (2003-2007). The Evolution of Language: perceptual and computational constraints. McDonnell foundation ($500,000)

Hauser, M.D. (2003-2004). The Acquisition and evolution of an alarm response to raptors in free-ranging rhesus populations. Leakey Foundation ($10,000).

Hauser, M.D. (2003-2006). Mechanisms of acoustic communication in cotton-top tamarins. NIH ($475,000)

Spelke, E.S., Hauser, M.D., & Carey, S. (2004-2007). Sources of mathematical knowledge. ROLE-NSF ($1,750,000)

Hauser, M.D., Leslie, A., & Damasio, A. (2007-2010). The evolution, development, and neurobiology of moral judgments. NSF_Human Social Dynamics ($1,250,000)

Internal (Harvard):
Teaching Innovation Fund (1992-1994; 1997)

Provost's Fund (1997)

Clark Fund (1993-1994)

Milton Fund (1992-1994)

Innovation Fund (1995-1996)

Tozzer Fund (1995-1996)

Mind, Brain, & Behavior (2000)

Tozzer and Clark Funds (2001)

Milton Fund (2001-2002)

Tozzer and Clark Funds (2005)

Societies:

1982- Animal Behavior Society

1988- Acoustical Society of America

1990- International Behavioral Ecology Society

1990- American Primatological Society

1993- International Society for Infant Studies

1994- Cognitive Neuroscience Society

1994- Neuroethology Society

Reviewer for:

Awards:

1993 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award

1992 Harvard University Teaching Innovation Award

1995 Nominated to Stanford's Center for Advanced Study

1997 Harvard University Teaching Innovation Award

2001 Voted one of Harvard's most popular professors by class of 2001

2002 Harvard College Professorship for distinction in teaching and research

2003 Voted one of Harvard's most popular professors by class of 2003

2005 Guggenheim Fellowship

2006 Science Medal, College de France, Paris

2007 Fellow, Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2008 Voted one of Harvard's most popular professors by class of 2008