Professor Daniel Rubenstein

Dan Rubenstein is the Class of 1977. Professor of Zoology, Director of Princeton’s Program in Environmental Studies, former chair of Princeton’s Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as the former Director of the Program in African Studies at Princeton University. He has received numerous research grants, been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Animal Behavior Society and has received the University’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dan conducts long-term research projects at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya on zebras and human-wildlife conflict, especially how new land sharing and planned grazing strategies can improve livelihoods while sustaining biodiversity.  At Mpala he also coordinates Princeton’s field semester in Kenya and mentors summer thesis students and interns