Dr. Frances 
White is a Professor of biological anthropology at the University of Oregon and specializes in behavioral ecology. Her research focuses on the evolution of primate sociality and social systems. Her research includes field projects with wild bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, free-ranging and captive primates in the US and the Caribbean, and lab studies of primate morphology. She is a Curator of Primate Osteology with the University of Oregon’s MNCH and her lab houses the UO Primate Osteology Collection. Dr. White’s publications have appeared in the American Journal of Primatology, International Journal of Primatology, Folia Primatologica, and American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Leakey Foundation, and other sources. She teaches introductory classes on the evolution of human behavior and sexuality and animal behavior (a Freshman Interest Group or FIG). Her upper level classes focus on primate behavior, ecology, and evolution. Dr. White also teaches graduate level biological statistics. Dr. White serves as Chair of the UO Committee on Courses since 2014 and Chair of UO Academic Council since 2015. She served as the Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon from 2013 to 2022 and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences from 2007 to 2013. In 2021, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
Contact information:
Dr. Frances White (she/her/hers)
Email: fwhite@uoregon.edu
Office: 302C Condon Hall
Lab: 304 Condon Hall
Telephone: (541) 346-5278
Fax: (541) 346-0668
Address: Department of Anthropology
1218 University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR 97405-1218
USA