Associate Professor of Biology
University of Richmond
An associate professor of biology at the University of Richmond, Dr. Smallwood is a behavioral ecologist with a concentration in the philosophical issues of evolutionary biology.
Smallwood’s work encompasses studies of the behavior of individual organisms to plant-animal interactions and their community-wide effects. He has also studied the foraging strategies and breeding behaviors of long-jawed spiders and kestrels (small falcons) and interactions of squirrels, mice and other small animals. His work has been widely reported in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Natural History, BBC Wildlife Magazine and National Geographic.
Prior to his professorship at the University of Richmond, Smallwood taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at Bryn Mawr College. He was a lecturer at the Kennedy Institute of Philosophy and Ethics at Georgetown University as well.
Smallwood received his bachelor’s degree in zoology from Ohio State University, his master’s degree in biology from the University of North Carolina and his doctoral degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona.