Rate My Professor Debra Judge

Associate Professor Debra Judge is a biological anthropologist and evolutionary ecologist in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia. She received her BS in Behavioral and Ecological Biology and MS in Animal Ecology from the University of California, Davis, and completed her PhD at the same institution. Her career includes a lecturing position from September 1987 to June 1996, prior to her appointment as Associate Professor. Judge's research centers on behavioral ecology, examining the ecology and social dynamics of family-living species. She specializes in human behavioral ecology, cooperative breeding, and factors influencing child growth and family dynamics, with extensive fieldwork in rural Timor-Leste communities. Her projects investigate longitudinal measures of child growth, household dietary diversity, family composition, resource strategies, social organization, and food production, funded in part by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP120101588. Additional studies explore primate social behavior, including infant handling by female mountain gorillas and homosexual behavior in the species.