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Kuczaj Kosen editor-in-chief for oxford university press publication
Dr. Stan Kuczaj, professor of psychology and director of The University of Southern Mississippi’s Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory, has been selected editor-in-chief of the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Mammalian Social Behavior.
The encyclopedia will contain approximately 150 chapters, each written by accomplished scholars in their respective fields.
“The encyclopedia will be unique in its comprehensive overview of what is known about social behavior in non-human mammals,” Kuczaj said. “I’m particularly excited about the fact that each chapter will be 8-10,000 words in length, which will provide each author the opportunity to summarize the current state of affairs for that topic as well as suggest directions for future research.”
Kuczaj and his graduate students have conducted international research concerning comparative cognition, marine mammal behavior, communication and play for more than 20 years on marine mammals and other animals both in the field and in captive facilities His work has been featured on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) and Japanese Public Television. USM Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory projects have received grant support from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Department of Commerce, among others.
The Marine Mammal Behavior and Cognition Laboratory is housed in the USM College of Education and Psychology’s Department of Psychology. For more information on Kuczaj’s research, visit http://www.usm.edu/brain-and-behavior/faculty/stan-kuczaj or for the laboratory, visit https://www.usm.edu/brain-and-behavior/marine-mammal-behavior-and-cognition-laboratory.
