Bruce J. Shockey
Manhattan College
Manhattan College Parkway
New York City, New York 10471
USA
and
Division of Paleontology
American Museum of Natural History
New York, New York
USA

Shockey is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Manhattan College and a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. His major research interests involve extinct mammals of South America. This work includes alpha-taxonomy (describing new species of notoungulates, a carnivorous marsupial, and a pyrothere), systematics, and functional morphology. Shockey was a Fulbright Scholar and NSF International Research Fellow to Bolivia, where he continues to work with Federico Anaya Daza. He is the recipient of two Research and Exploration grants from the National Geographic Society for work with Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi in the Oligocene of southern Peru and for this Pleistocene cave project. Shockey received his Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Florida in 1997.