© Carolyn Hall

I was associated with this project in North America and Japan from its beginning in 1972 until data collection ceased in 1996. I was the Field Station Manager in 1978-79 and spent more than three years "living with" the Arashiyama macaques. My research with this population of monkeys now focuses upon analysis of the long-term database, especially reproductive and life history patterns in females. As well, I held field schools, supervised numerous graduate student thesis projects, spent time in Japan and helped to arrange exchanges with Japanese primatologists. In 1991, I co-edited a volume with Pamela Asquith (The Monkeys of Arashiyama, SUNY Press) that surveyed the research conducted on these macaques in Japan and North America since 1954. Since 1991, I have produced a series of papers on reproductive cessation ("menopause") in primates, co-authored with Mary Pavelka.

3. Gender and Science

Beginning with an interest in how the gender of the scientist affects their research on sex differences, I have moved to a wider focus on the role of gender in scientific disciplines such as anthropology, primatology and biology. Publications include papers on the role of women in models of human evolution; feminism and primatology; science and the successful female; and historical analyses of the effects of gender on changing views of life history research. I co-hosted an international Wenner-Gren conference on the role of gender, method and theory in the history of primatology, and co-edited Primate Encounters. Models of Science, Gender and Society with Shirley Strum (University of Chicago Press, 2000).