Education

• 1995 B.A. Philosophy, Flagler College

• 2005 M.A. Biological Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  
  
• 2007 Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University
  Dissertation title: Exploring Diachronic Change in the Population Specific Vocalizations of
  Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

Experience

• RESEARCH CENTER:
  2000 - present
  Lion Country Safari.
  The Elgin Center for Conservation and Behavioral Research.
  Maintain a captive group of chimpanzees and gibbons. In charge of animal care, exhibit design, departmental staffing, educational programs, and research occuring at the park.
  In 2007, founded “The Elgin Center for Conservation and Behavioral Research INC.” at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Florida. This non profit center functions as both the independent research arm of Lion Country Safari (a drive-through zoological park) and a field school for ethology. Currently serving as the Executive Director. Duties include, and have included: directing all research activities at Lion Country Safari and Elgin Center related projects, incorporating the center and applying for tax exempt status, putting together a board of directors, acting as the agent of the board’s decisions, running the daily operations of the center, writing grant applications for the center, organizing fundraisers, facilitating research projects at Lion Country Safari for outside researchers, and acting as a field school instructor.
  The Elgin Center also runs a Jane Goodall Institue “Roots and Shoots” program for area schools.

• TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
  2005 - Present: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. Department of Anthropology, Adjunct Instructor
  2007 - Present: Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida. Adjunct Instructor
  2008 - Present: Ometepe Biological Field School, Ometepe, Nicaragua. Instructor

• COURSES TAUGHT:
  2005 Introduction to Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  2006 Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  2006 Anthropology of Science Fiction, Florida Atlantic University
  2007 Human Impulses (Sociobiology), Florida Atlantic University
  2007 Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  2007 Human Variation, Florida Atlantic University
  2007 Advanced Biological Anthropology (Primate Survey), Florida Atlantic University
  2007 Introduction to Anthropology, Palm Beach Community College
  2008 Advanced Biological Anthropology (Primate Survey, Florida Atlantic University
  2008 Human Evolution, Florida Atlantic University
  2008 Human Impulses (Sociobiology), Florida Atlantic University
  2008 Primate Behavior and Ecology, Ometepe Biological Field School
  2008 Human Variation, Florida Atlantic University
  2009 Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  
  As a graduate teaching assistant:
  2003 Introduction to Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  2004 Introduction to Anthropology, Florida Atlantic University
  2006 Gross Anatomy, Florida Atlantic University
  
  
• NEW COURSES ADDED TO THE CURRICULUM:
  
  ANT 4930 Anthropology of Science Fiction. Florida Atlantic University, 2006.
  Designed and taught this course which explores science fiction as a phenomenon of science-based culture. The
  course seeks to analyze the classic works of science fiction in an anthropological method in order to learn about a culture where science is the dominant cosmology.
  
  ANT 4407 Human Impulses (Sociobiology). Florida Atlantic University, 2007.
  Designed and taught this course which seeks to understand the biological basis of human behavior. Human behavior is
  compared and contrasted with primate behavior in an effort to determine which behaviors are culturally inclined and which are naturally determined.

Field Experience

• 2008 - present. Instructor and Field Guide
  Ometepe Biological Field School, Ometepe, Nicaragua.
  Duties include teaching students field data collection techniques, taking students and researchers through the rain
  forest of Ometepe Island in Nicaragua, teaching a primate survey course, and facilitating research projects for students.

Research Appointment

• 2004 - present. Primate research coordinator. Lion Country Safari.
  Facilitated all primate research projects at Lion Country Safari. Acted as liaison between researchers and management. Aided researchers in the preparation of animal care and use (ACUC) proposals. Coordinated student research projects. Promoted the park as a research institution.

Board Memberships

• 2007 - present. President of the board. The Elgin Center for Conservation & Behavioral Research
• 2008 - present. Director of Conservation Education. Maderas Rainforest Conservancy

Service Organization

• 2007 - present. Founded, advised, and instructed a “Roots and Shoots” club at Baldwin Prep School, North Palm Beach, FL. Roots and Shoots is a service organization sponsored by the Jane Goodall Institute which seeks to involve students in animal, environmental, and human rights issues in the world.

Work Experience

• 1998 - 2000 Education Specialist. Zoo Atlanta
• 2000 - present. Primate Keeper Lion. Country Safari
• 2004 - present. Primate Research Coordinator. Lion Country Safari
• 2007 - present. Executive Director. Elgin Center for Conservation and Behavioral Research at Lion Country Safari
• 2008 - present. Field School Instructor. Ometepe Biological Field School

Publications/ Theses

• INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ARTICLES (peer reviewed):
  
  Halloran, A.R., and Broadfield, D.C. (in review) “ A Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Learns to Pick Out Binary Oppositions.” Submitted to: American Journal of Primatology.
  
  Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C., and Bjorklund, D.F. (in review) “Conservation of Number in a Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).” Submitted to: Folia Primatologica.
  
  Halloran, A.R. 2004. “The Dawn of Mythopraxis: Exploring Structure in Chimpanzee Culture.” Journal of Contemporary Philosophy. 26:1:17-25
  
  
• BOOK CHAPTER (solicited by the editor):
  Halloran, A.R. (2004) “The Dawn of Mythopraxis: Exploring the Chimpanzee Mind.” In: V. Landau (ed.). Chimpanzoo Conference Proceedings 2003. pp. 20-25.
  
  

Abstracts (peer reviewed)

• Halloran, A.R., Cloutier, C.T. (2009). “Genetic determinants for capuchin alarm calls? Comparisons between the alarm calls of a previously unstudied group of wild white-throated capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) and previously published alarm call analyses reveal no significant difference.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
  (in review)
  

• Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C. (2008). “A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) learns to discern
  binary oppositions”. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (Supp 43)

• Halloran, A.R., Broadfield D.C., Ross, S., and Marshall, A. (2007). “Exploring Diachronic
  Change in the Group Specific Vocalizations of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)” American
  Journal of Physical Anthropology.

• Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, and D.C., Bjorklund, D. (2006) “Quantity Comparison and Number
  Conservation in Pan troglodytes and its Relation to the Structure of the Human Mind.”
  American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 129 (Supp 42): 99.
  
  
• Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C., Bjorklund, D., and Hores, R. (2005) “Exploring Whether or
  Not Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Can Discern Oppositions and its Implications on
  Human Evolution.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (Supp 40):111.

National Presentations

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2008. 77th Annal Meeting, Columbus, OH
  Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C.,”A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) learns to discern binary oppositions.”

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2007. 76th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
  Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C., Ross, S., and Marshall, A. “Exploring diachronic change in the group specific
  vocalizations of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).”
  

• Understanding the Chimpanzee Mind conference, 2007. The Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, IL.
  Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C., Ross, S., and Marshall, A. “Exploring diachronic change in the group specific
  vocalizations of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).”

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2006. 75th Annual Meeting, Anchorage, AK
  Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C., and Bjorklund, D. “Quantity comparison and number conservation in Pan troglodytes and its relation to the structure of the human mind.”
  

• American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2005. 74th Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI
  Halloran, A.R., Broadfield, D.C., Bjorklund, D. “Exploring whether or not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can discern oppositions and its implications on human evolution.”
  

• Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzoo Conference, 2003.
  Halloran, A. “The Dawn of Mythopraxis: Exploring the chimpanzee mind.”

Grants Support

• Florida Atlantic University, Graduate Grants Committee Award : $650. Travel Grant: 2006
  

• Florida Atlantic University, Graduate Grants Committee Award: $650 Travel Grant: 2005
  

Professional Experience

• 2004 - present. AZA chimpanzee tag representative for Lion Country Safari.
  

• 2004 - present. Lion Country Safari Enrichment Committee representative for chimpanzees and gibbons.
  

• 2003 - 2005. Vice President of the Lion Country Safari Chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers.
  
  
• 1998 - 2000 “Night Crawlers” overnight educational program instructor. Zoo Atlanta.

Courses

• PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC/EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
  Research that has been featured/covered in:
  
  
• TELEVISION: WXEL, PBS, Palm Beach, FL, South Florida Today, “ChimpanZoo and FAU research on chimpanzees.” Filmed October 29, 2003. Broadcast and rerun throughout November 2003.
  
  
• VIDEO: “Chimps In Charge: Primate politics at Lion Country Safari.” (c) 2002 ZOOMatrix Video Productions.
  
  
• INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:
  Flagler College
  Invited Lecture: “Exploring the chimpanzee mind.”
  St. Augustine, FL, October 12, 2006.
  
  Florida Atlantic University
  Florida Atlantic University Linguistics Society
  Invited Lecture: “Are chimpanzee vocalizations a language?”
  Boca Raton, FL, September 8, 2006.
  
  St. Andrew’s Retirement Community
  Invited Lecture: “Working with chimpanzees.”
  Boca Raton, FL, April 8, 2005.
  
  Lion Country Safari
  Invited Lecture: “Exploring whether or not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) can discern oppositions.”
  Loxahatchee, FL, August 22, 2004.
  
  Florida Atlantic University
  Anthropology Seminar
  Invited Lecture: “The Dark Side of the Force: Using Claude Levi-Strauss to analyze Star Wars.”
  Boca Raton, FL, November 11, 2003.