Kathleen Donohue
Kathleen Donohue is an American biologist at Duke University. She researches the genetic and ecological context of adaptation. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work and was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education
Kathleen Donohue attended Stanford University, graduating in 1985 with bachelor's degrees in Biology and Medieval Studies. As a Stanford undergraduate, she conducted research with Ward Watt. She then attended the University of Chicago for her master's degree and PhD. Her doctoral advisors were Ellen Simms and Stevan Arnold, and her dissertation was entitled "The evolution of seed dispersal in Cakile edentula var. lacustris".Career
In her early career, she was a faculty member at the Morgan School of Biological Sciences at the University of Kentucky and subsequently at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. In 2008 she was hired at Duke University as an Associate Professor of Biology. She was appointed to Full Professor in 2012. She researches the genetic and ecological basis of adaptation, including phenotypic plasticity, maternal effects, epigenetics, niche construction, biological dispersal, natural selection at multiple scales. From 2017 to 2020 she was director of Duke's University Program in Ecology.Selected publications
Donohue, K.,. 2011. Darwin’s Finches: Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm. University of Chicago Press.*