Anna Nekaris
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University of Missouri, Columbia
Louis Pasteur University
Anna Nekaris | |
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| Other names | K.A.I. Nekaris, K. Anne-Isole Nekaris |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis University of Missouri, Columbia Louis Pasteur University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Anglia Ruskin University, Oxford Brookes University |
| Thesis | The socioecology of the slender loris (Loris tardigradus lydekkerianus) in Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, South India (1999) |
| Website | https://nocturama.org/ |
Anna Nekaris OBE is a British anthropologist and Professor of Ecology, Conservation and Environment at Anglia Ruskin University.[1] Previously she was a professor in primate conservation in the School of Law and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. She is interested in the conservation of Asian nocturnal animals and African nocturnal primates. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2024 New Year Honours.
Nekaris completed her undergraduate education at the University of Missouri, Columbia and Louis Pasteur University, where she focused on anthropology and primate conservation.[2] She was a graduate student at the Washington University in St. Louis. She majored in anthropology, and her doctorate focused on biological anthropology. Her PhD research investigated the socioecology of the slender loris in Dindigul.[3]
