Brian D. Farrell | |
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Born | Vermont |
Spouse | Irina Ferreras |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | BA.,
University of Vermont MS., PhD, University of Maryland |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
University of Colorado Boulder Harvard University |
Main interests | Interaction between insects and plants, specifically the interplay of adaptation and historical contingency in ecological and taxonomic diversification. |
Brian Dorsey Farrell is a professor of biology and curator in entomology at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. As of 2014 [update], Farrell is also Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
Farrell was one of eight children born to a United States born mother and Lebanese-descendent father. [1] He earned his BA in zoology and botany from the University of Vermont and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. [2]
Farrell accepted a position at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he had his first child. In 1995, he returned to the East Coast to accept a position at Harvard University as a Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. [1] In 2014, Farrell was named Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He also received a grant to study insect fossils in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. [3] In 2018, he was named Faculty Dean of Leverett House. [2]
Farrell and his wife Irina Ferreras have two children, who also enrolled in Harvard. [4]