Faculty
Bruce Wheatley, Ph.D.
Professor
bwheat@uab.edu
Bruce Wheatley (Ph. D. University of California) completed his undergraduate work at U.C. Berkeley and his graduate work in anthropology at U.C. Davis. A physical anthropologist, his specializations and research interests include primatology, forensic anthropology, human evoloution, and evoloutionary theory. With over twenty years of primatological research on macaque, Macaca fascicularis. His recent book Sacred Monkeys of Bali published in 1999, explores primate commensalism in Indonesia, and a new area of primatological research that he calls cultural primatology. Professor Wheatley has worked on temple monkeys in Bali, on wild monkeys in Indonesian Borneo and Java, and on the Ngeaur monkeys in the republic of Palau. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia where he lectured at the university of Indonesia and at the National University in Jakarta. His students have assisted him in Bali, and they have received their own Ph.D.'s and conducted fieldwork on African apes.
Dr. Wheatley has also worked as a forensic anthropologist for the State of Alabama for over twenty years. He is currently conducting research in this area and his students have received training and casework experience. In the summer of 1998, he led an anthropology class to Greece where they participated in excavations and museum lectured and projects. Dr. Wheatley lives in Birmingham with his wife, Cathleen and his three daughters. Cathleen is also a primatologist who has done fieldwork on macaques as well as chimpanzees with Dr. Jane Goodall. Dr. Wheatley plays bagpipes in his spare time with the Birmingham Society of Piping for such events as UAB homecoming.
