About Duke University

Anne Pusey is Professor Emerita of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. She holds a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Stanford University. Throughout her career, she has dedicated much of her research to studying the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania, and spent 11 years researching the lions of the Serengeti. Her journey began in 1970 as a research assistant for Jane Goodall, followed by five years at Gombe collecting data for her dissertation on adolescent chimpanzee behavior. Pusey spent 26 years as a Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at the University of Minnesota, where she founded the Jane Goodall Institute’s Center for Primate Studies. This center archived and digitized data from the long-running Gombe chimpanzee study. After joining Duke in 2010, she established the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center, continuing this important work. Pusey has mentored numerous graduate students focused on Gombe chimpanzees and remains an active visitor to the research site. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, and has authored over 150 publications on various aspects of chimpanzee behavior and biology.