People
Overseeing the Museum and its growth is the Museum Council (consisting of the curators, museum staff, and associated personnel), which establishes policies and develops the annual program and budget priorities. Our Collection Manager, Bob Blinn has full-time curatorial duties, while Andy Deans serves as the director.
Curators
Andrew R. Deans
Assistant Professor and Director of of the Museum, Curator of Hymenoptera
Lewis L. Deitz
Professor Emeritus, Curator of Hemiptera
Herbert H. Neunzig
Professor Emeritus, Curator of Lepidoptera
Brian M. Wiegmann
Professor, Curator of Diptera and Genome Bank
David L. Stephan
Extension Specialist, Insect Identification, Curator of Plecoptera and winter Lepidoptera
Museum Staff
Robert L. Blinn
Collection Manager, systematics of Miridae and Reduviidae (Heteroptera)
Museum Associates
James R. Baker
Professor Emeritus, horticultural insects, expertise in systematics of apoid Hymenoptera and Megaloptera
Matt Bertone
Postdoc (HAO Project), systematics of Diptera
Brian K. Cassel
Research Technician, Assistant Curator of Genome Bank
Maurice H. Farrier
Professor Emeritus, specialist on soil-inhabiting Mesostigmata (Acarina)
István Mikó
Research Associate (HAO Project), systematics of Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera), comparative morphology of Hymenoptera
Shelah I. Morita
Postdoc (Wiegmann lab), systematics of Tabanidae (Diptera)
Katja Seltmann
Project Manager (HAO Project), systematics of Ichneumonoidea, apterous Hymenoptera
Barb Sharanowski
Postdoc (Deans lab), systematics of Hymenoptera, phylogenomics
P. Sterling Southern
Professor Emeritus, Specialist in Charge of Extension Entomology, systematics of Cicadellidae (Hemiptera)
Michelle Trautwein
Systematics of Bombyliidae (Diptera)
Isaac S. Winkler
Postdoc (Wiegmann lab), Systematics of Diptera
Matt Yoder
Researcher (HAO Project), Systematics of Diapriidae (Hymenoptera)
Graduate Students
Keith Bayless
Systematics of Tabanidae (Diptera)
Andrew Ernst
Systematics of Hymenoptera
Rinchhuanawma
Systematics of Evaniidae (Hymenoptera)
Whitney Swink
Systematics of Empididae (Diptera)
Steven Turner
Systematics of Empidoidea (Diptera)
Museum Assistants
Honorary Curators
- Charles R. Bartlett, University of Delaware ("Homoptera")
- James F. Cornell (Coleoptera)
- Kye S. Hedlund, UNC Chapel Hill (Formicidae)
- Mark J. Rothschild (Membracidae)
- Charles L. Staines, Jr., (Chrysomelidae)
- James W. Smith (Coleoptera)
- Henry Stockwell (Coleoptera)
- J. Bo Sullivan (Lepidoptera)
