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

We are looking for motivated undergraduates to help us in the Museum! Please contact Andy Deans (email in the footer) for details.

Honorary Curators