David Pilbeam
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David Pilbeam is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University.
In 1979, he was a co-discoverer, in the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan, of a nearly complete skull of Sivapithecus indicus, an extinct Late Miocene great ape.
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[edit] Deanship
In the summer of 2007 David Pilbeam was appointed interim Dean of Harvard College, making him responsible for tackling issues related to student social and academic life. His deanship has been marred by controversies with the Harvard student government, the Undergraduate Council, beginning with a decision to terminate a long-standing student program to reimburse students for hosting social events with alcohol. Nevertheless, Pilbeam can be credited for shepherding to completion a proposal requiring all courses to participate in a student course evaluation program, and for continuing the tenuous process of redesigning the undergraduate curriculum.
[edit] Honors
- Docteur Honoris Causa, Université de Poitiers, 2002
- Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences, 1992–1997
- Member, National Academy of Sciences (following naturalization), 1997–
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
[edit] Publications
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He has written over 13 papers since 2000. The most generally notable are:
- Pilbeam, D. (2004). "The anthropoid postcranial axial skeleton: comments on development, variation, and evolution." Journal of Experimental Zoology, 302B(3), 241-267.
- Pilbeam, D. (2000). "Hominoid systematics: the soft evidence." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97(20), 10684-10686.
