Curriculum vitae
September 2007

Anne M. Houtman     
Department of Biological Science
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92831
714-278-5491
ahoutman@fullerton.edu

EDUCATION
University of Oxford.  Doctor of Philosophy, Zoology.      1991
      Thesis:  Sexual selection in the zebra finch.  Supervisor:  Professor Sir John Krebs, FRS
University of California, Los Angeles.  Doctoral program in Biology.       1985-87
University of California, Los Angeles.  Master of Arts, Anthropology.       1985
       Thesis:  The Hawaiian tuna fishery.  Supervisor:  Dr. Timothy Earle
Pomona College.  Claremont, CA.  Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology.       1983
      Thesis:  Color lexicon development in children.  Supervisor:  Dr. Ralph Bolton

POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Biology and Director, General Education Biology Program.  California State University, Fullerton.  8/03 to present.
     Responsible for all biology non-majors’ courses, which serve more than 4,000 students a year.
Professor of Biology and Coordinator, Science and Math program.  Soka University.  8/00 to 8/03.
Assistant Dean (9/01 to 4/02) and Acting Dean ( 4/02 to 8/02) of Faculty.  Soka University. 
      Responsibilities included academic budgeting, faculty hiring, curriculum development, teaching assignments and evaluation, long-range academic planning.
Program Coordinator,  Pew Midstates Science and Math Consortium.  1998 to 2001.
      Responsible for faculty development, through research and pedagogy workshops and conferences, in member institutions (11 liberal arts colleges and 2 research universities.)
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Knox College.  1995 to 2000.
Director, Green Oaks Biological Station, Knox College.  1995 to 2000.
      Responsible for program development, budgeting and operations.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia.  1994 to 1997.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Wesleyan College.  1993 to 1995.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto. 1990-1993.
Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto. 1990-1993.
Computer Instructor,  Women's Training Scheme, Oxford City Council.  1989-90.  
Tutor/Demonstrator,  Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. 1987-90.
Teaching Assistant,  Department of Biology, UCLA.  1986-87.
Biological Aide, National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu, Hawaii.  1981-82. 
Research Assistant to Director, Waikiki Aquarium, Honolulu, Hawaii.  1980-81.

GRANTS
Audubon Society Research Grant (w/ Bethany Williams & Stephanie Craig)  2007, 2006
CSUF General Education Assessment Grant   2006
CSUF Faculty/Student Research Grant  2006(2), 2005
CSU Faculty Development Grant  2005, 2004
National Science Foundation Multi-User Instrumentation Grant for imaging equipment, co-Principal Investigator.  1999-2000
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Research Grant.  (awarded for 1999)
National Science Foundation Research Opportunity Award.  1995 - 97
Hughes Summer Faculty Research Grant (through Knox College). 1996
NALCO Grant for Ecology Teaching Equipment.  1996
Pratt Summer Research Fellowship, Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia. 1994
Royal Geographical Society Grant (fieldwork in Australia). 1989
British Ornithological Union Grant (fieldwork in Australia). 1989
Linnaean Society Grant (fieldwork in Australia). 1989
Frank Chapman Memorial Research Grant,  American Museum of Natural History (fieldwork in Australia). 1989
Sigma Xi Research Grant (fieldwork in Australia, Hawaii). 1989, 1985

FELLOWSHIPS
National Science & Engineering Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow. 1992-1993 (awarded through 1994)
Somerville College Scholarship. 1989-90
U.K. Overseas Research Scholarship. 1987-90
Fulbright Research Fellow. 1987-88
UCLA Biology Teaching Assistantship. 1986-87
National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellow. 1983-86
UCLA University Fellowship. 1983-85
Pomona College Scholarship.  1979-83

PUBLICATIONS
(student authors in bold)
Williams, B. & Houtman, A.M. 2008. Song of the Costa’s hummingbird.  In press: The Auk.
Houtman, A.M. and Walker, S. 2008.  Decreasing plagiarism:  what works and what doesn’t. In press: The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
Houtman, A.M. and Presch, M.  2005.  PowerPoint:  Friend or Foe?  In Strategies for Success. Spring 2005, Issue no. 43.  Benjamin Cummings Publishers.
Houtman, A.M.  2002.  The response of squirrels to conspecific and heterospecific alarm calls.  In Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field, Bonnie J. Ploger and Ken Yasukawa, Editors.  Academic Press.
Inman, A.J. and Houtman, A.M.  2002.  Whirligig beetles’ anti-predator behavior.  In Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field, Bonnie J. Ploger and Ken Yasukawa, Editors.  Academic Press.
Lynn, S., Houtman, A.M. Ketterson, E. and Weathers, W.W.  2000.  Testosterone increases activity but not daily energy expenditure in captive male dark-eyed juncos, Junco hyemalis .  Animal Behavior 60(5):581-587.
Collins, C., Houtman, A.M.  1999.  Tan and white color morphs of White-throated sparrows differ in their non-song vocal responses to territorial intrusion. Condor 101:842-845.
DeVoogd, T., Houtman, A.M. & Falls, J.B.  1995.  Neural correlates of morph differences in white-throated sparrows that are associated with differences in song production rate.  Journal of Neurobiology 28 (2): 202-213.
Collins, S.A., Hubbard, C. and Houtman, A.M.  1994.  Female mate choice in the zebra finch:  the effect of male beak colour and song.  Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 35:21-25.
Houtman, A.M. and Falls, J.B. 1994.  Negative assortative mating in the white-throated sparrow:  the role of mate choice and intra-sexual competition.  Animal Behaviour 48:377-383.
Brooks, D.R., Hoberg, E.P. and Houtman, A.M.  1993.  Some platyhelminths inhabiting white-throated sparrows, Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmelin) (Aves: Emberizidae: Emberizinae), from Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada.  Journal of Parasitology 79(4), 610-612.
Houtman, A.M. 1992.  Female zebra finches choose extra-pair copulations with genetically attractive males. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 249, 3-6.
Houtman, A.M. 1990.  The estrildid finches.  In: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds.  Ed. C.M. Perrins. London: Marshall Editions.
Houtman, A.M., Buth, D.G. & James, S.W.  1987.  Human evolution.  In: Manual for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, UCLA Biology. ed. RR Vance. Chapter 5.
Gilmartin, W.G., Morrow R.J. & Houtman, A.M.  1986.  Hawaiian monk seal observations and captive maintenance project at Kure Atoll, 1981.  U.S. Dept. Comm., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFC-59.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
(student authors in bold)
Castro, C. and A. Houtman.  2007.  Song recognition in neighbor-stranger playback experiments in Anna’s hummingbird, Calypte anna. Poster presentation at Southern California Academy of Science, Fullerton, CA, 1 June 2007.
English, S. and A. Houtman.  2007. Anthropogenic noise and song structure in Calypte hummingbirds.  Poster presentation at Southern California Academy of Science, Fullerton, CA, 1 June 2007.
Steen, L.  and A.M. Houtman.  2006. The song of the male Anna’s hummingbird, Calypte Anna, in southern California. Poster presentation at Animal Behavior Society 43rd annual meeting, Snowbird, Utah, 12-16 August 2006.
Williams, B. and A.M. Houtman.  2006.  Individual variation in the song of male Costa’s hummingbirds. Poster presentation at Animal Behavior Society 43rd annual meeting, Snowbird, Utah, 12-16 August 2006.
Schwiebert, K. and A.M. Houtman.  2006.  Micro-geographic distribution of song dialects in Anna’s hummingbirds. Talk given at California Animal Behavior Symposium, University of California, San Diego, Saturday, 25 February 2006.
Steen, L.  and A.M. Houtman.  2006.  Song variation within and among populations of male Anna’s hummingbird, Calypte anna.  Talk given at California Animal Behavior Symposium, University of California, San Diego, Saturday, 25 February 2006.
Casem, M.L., Hoese, W. and Houtman, A.M.  2005.  Testing the efficacy of an embedded assessment of critical thinking.  Presented at the Eighth CSU Regional Symposium on University Teaching, Cal Poly Pomona.  2 April 2005.
Houtman, A.M. and J. Ono.  2003.  Curricular transformation of general education biology at Cal State Fullerton.  Poster presentation at Project Kaleidoscope Assembly:  Shaping General Education Programs Focused on Scientific and Quantitative Literacy.  New York City.
Houtman, A.M.  1999.  Sex and evolution.  Keynote address for the Pew Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium.  Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Houtman, A.M, Fry, C. and Grindstaff, J.1999.  Conspecific brood parasitism in the house sparrow.  Animal Behavior Society Meetings, Bucknell College, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
Inman, A.J. & Houtman, A.M.  1999.  Skate or Dive?  Density dependent and frequency     dependent alternative antipredation strategies in whirligig beetles, Dineutus americanus.  Presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, June 26-30, 1999.
Klein, M., Reed, R. and Houtman, A.M.  1999.  Colony size and parental investment in the house sparrow.  Midwest Animal Behavior Society Meetings, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Boylan, N., Fry, C. and Houtman, A.M.  1999. Male badge size and chick growth rate in the house sparrow.  Midwest Animal Behavior Society Meetings, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
Fry, C., Grindstaff, J. and Houtman, A.M.  1997.  Extra-pair fertilizations and paternal care in the house sparrow.  Pew Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium.  Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Houtman, A.M.  1994.  Breeding ecology of the white-throated sparrow.  Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia.
Wylie, J. and Houtman, A.M.  1994.  Response of birds to inter-specific alarm calls.  Georgia Academy of Sciences Annual Conference, Kennesaw, GA.
Houtman, A.M. and Falls, J.B.  1992.  Sex and morph differences in brain and behaviour in the white-throated sparrow. Animal Behaviour Society Meetings, Kingston, ONT, Canada.
Houtman, A.M.  1991.  Mate choice and intra-sexual competition in white-throated sparrows. Annual Conference of La Société Québécoise Pour L'Etude Biologique du Comportement, Montreal, PQ, Canada.
Houtman, A.M.  1991.  Sexual selection for heritable viability indicators in the zebra finch. EGI Field Ornithology Annual Conference.
Houtman, A.M.  1990-91.   Sexual selection in the zebra finch.  York University, Toronto, Canada.  Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.  Dept. of Psychology, and  Dept. of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Houtman, A.M.  1990.  Mate choice for good genes in the zebra finch. Annual Conference of La Société Québécoise Pour L'Etude Biologique du Comportement, Sherbrooke, PQ, Canada.
Houtman, A.M.  1990.  Mate choice and extra-pair copulations in the zebra finch.  Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Houtman, A.M.  1989.  Female zebra finches choose males more attractive than their mates for extra-pair copulations. Sexual Selection Conference, Assn. for the Study of Animal Behaviour, London Zoological Society.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Member of Animal Behavior Society, Sigma Xi and Textbook Authors Association.
Member, Project Kaleidoscope Faculty for the 21st Century, a national organization focused on science education reform.  1994-present.  F21 Leadership Mentor beginning Fall 2007.
Reviewer for American Zoologist, Animal Behaviour, Behaviour, Canadian Journal of Zoology and Proceedings of the Royal Society, numerous textbooks.
Served on expert panel for College Board AP Biology exam, identifying “best practices” university courses to serve as models for a revised AP Biology curriculum and exam.  Asked to write the model syllabus and associated activities for a full-year AP Biology course to be shared with AP Biology faculty.
Sponsored faculty development workshop on active learning in large general education science classes for faculty across southern California, with Benjamin Cummings Publishers.  March 2004.
Offered Teaching Biology to Future Leaders Workshop.  Co-funded by Project Kaleidoscope and Exxon-Mobil.  Soka University.  January 14-16, 2002.
Attended CSUF Podcasting Workshop.  May 28-30, 2007.
Attended CSUF Grant-writing Academy.  January 18-22, 2004.
Attended New Dean’s Seminar, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences.  July 12-17, 2002.
Attended Project Kaleidoscope Leadership Institute.  Baca, Colorado.  June 11-15, 2001.
Attended National Science Foundation funded Curriculum Institute on Women, Science & Community to develop multidisciplinary Green Oaks term.  1997.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE
California State University, Fullerton
Assessment Committee Fall 2003-present (Chair Fall 2007).
Curriculum Committee Fall 2003-present (Chair, 2006-07).
Graduate Advancement Committee Fall 2004-Spring 2006.
Tucker Wildlife Research Station Advisory Board Fall 2003-present.
Tucker Wildlife Research Station Faculty Committee Fall 2003-present.
Soka University
Faculty Performance Evaluation Committee 2001-2003 (Chair 2002-2003).
Assessment Committee 2002-2003.
Curriculum Committee 2000-2003.
Vice-chair of Executive Committee 2000-2002.
Academic Program Committee  2000-2002.
Moderator of Faculty Forum 2000-2002.
Faculty Enhancement Committee  2000-2001.
Hiring committees:  Biology, Anthropology, Rhetoric & Composition, Foreign   Language Program Director, 4 Language faculty, ESL & Reading specialists, Art & Photography.
Course development committees:  Core, Modes of Inquiry, Learning Clusters.
Knox College
Chair, Rhodes selection committee.  1997-99.
Chair, Marshall selection committee.  1997-99.
Watson selection committee.  1997-99.
Ford Fellows selection committee.  1997-99.
ACE/Kellogg project on Leadership and Institutional Transformation, 1996-98.
Faculty representative, Midwest Athletic Conference, 1996-97.
Head Resident, Office of Student Life.  1996-98.
Environmental Studies committee.  1995-99.
Director, Knox College Natural History collection.  1995-99.

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Aliso Creek Watershed Committee member.  2000-2002.
Chair, Curriculum Committee and Parent’s Council.  Community School. 1999-2000.
Spearheaded development of magnet school emphasizing inquiry-based learning.  1998-99.
Founder and President, Parents and Caregivers Group, The Children’s School.  1996-99.
Presentations on birds, mammals and ecology.  Various local schools.  1996-2000.
Educational field trips to Green Oaks.  Various local schools and organizations.  1995-2000.