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
Director of the Museum - VACANT
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 Emeritus, 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
Extension Associate, Insect Identification (Plant Disease and Insect Clinic), systematics of Diptera
Brian K. Cassel
Research Technician, Assistant Curator of Genome Bank
Maurice H. Farrier
Professor Emeritus, specialist on soil-inhabiting Mesostigmata (Acarina)
P. Sterling Southern
Professor Emeritus, Systematics of Cicadellidae (Hemiptera)
Michelle Trautwein
Nature Research Center, Systematics of Bombyliidae (Diptera)
Graduate Students
Keith Bayless
Systematics of Tabanidae (Diptera)
Heather M. Campbell
Systematics of bees (Anthophila)
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)