Trudy Turner

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Trudy Rebecca Turner is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. She is known for her work with vervet monkeys, ethics in research, and supporting women in biological anthropology. Turner earned a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1970 and an M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) from New York University. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan Medical School and joined UW–Milwaukee in 1987, becoming a full professor in 1998. In 2019 she became editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Her research focuses on primates, especially vervet monkeys; early work looked at blood proteins and growth in vervets, and she helped sequence the vervet genome. She has also explored ethics in population biology and the experiences of women in biological anthropology. Turner received the Gabriel Lasker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.