PHILIP J. DEVRIES
Departement of Biological Sciences
2000 Lake Shore Drive
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148
 
   EDUCATION
 Ph.D. (1987) Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin
 B.S. (1975) School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  EMPLOYMENT
2004 - present Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans

2000 - 2004

 Director, Center for Biodiversity Studies, Milwaukee Public Museum
2000 - 2004 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1994 - 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Oregon
1993 - 1994 Research Associate, MCZ, Harvard University
1988 - 1993 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Texas
1990 - 1992 Scientific Associate, Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University
1987 - 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, STRI - Panama
1979 - 1980 Station Manager, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, Organization for Tropical Studies
1975 - 1987 Curator of Lepidoptera, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
  PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Research Associate

Milwaukee Public Museum (2004 - present)
American Museum of Natural History (1988 - present)
Missouri Botanical Gardens (1988 - present)
MCZ-Harvard University (1994 - present)
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (1996 - present)
Museo de Historia Natural "Noel Kempff Mercado", Bolivia (2000 - 2003)
Director of Research La Selva Lodge Biological Station, Ecuador (1991 - present)
Board Member Population Biology Foundation (1997 - present)
The Urban Wildlands Group (2002 - present)
Executive Council Lepidopterists' Society (2001 - 2002)
Member Cambridge Entomological Society, New York Entomological Society, Society for Tropical Biologists, Lepidopterists' Society
 Editorial Board Ecology Letters (1997 - 2001), Journal of Research on Lepidoptera (1990 - present), Acta Oecologia (1996 - 1997), Tropical Lepidoptera (1989 - present), Biotropica (1999 - present), Journal of Lepidopterists' Society (2001 - present)
Advisory Board Society for Amateur Scientists
  AWARDS AND GRANTS
1998 - 2002 NSF (DEB), Phylogenetic analysis of Morpho butterflies and relatives
1996 -1998 National Geographic Research Grant, Tropical Community Diversity
1996 -1998 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1994 Ernst Mayr Grant, Harvard University
1993 - 1994 Geraldine Dodge Foundation Fellowship
1988 - 1993 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
1993 Rolex Awards for Enterprise, Honorable Mention
1992 Seven Group Charitable Trust
1987 - 1988 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship
1985 - 1986 Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship
1984 - 1985 University of Texas Predoctoral Fellowship
1982 - 1983 Fulbright Hayes Scholarship to British Museum