Felicia Keesing

David & Rosalie Rose Distinguished Professor of the Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing

My research focuses on the ecology of infectious diseases in New York's Hudson Valley and in the savannas of central Kenya. I do a lot of research with undergraduate students at Bard College, who frequently find the answers to questions no one has ever asked before -- and often motivate me to take my research in entirely new directions. I love to teach, too. Over the years, my approach in the classroom has been transformed by my learning how to teach so that students practice doing rather than just listening.

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Current students

• Juliet Kelly -- Effects of temperature extremes on blacklegged ticks
• Aidan Wiese -- Seedbanks of Phragmites monocultures
  
• Mason Blank -- Abundance of dire wolves from ecological reconstruction
  
• Charlotte Bermingham -- Bioclimatic risk as a result of climate change in Kenya
  
• Marisol Thomson -- Effects of pollution on stream communities of the Sawkill Creek
  
• Steph Giersz -- Vulnerability of snakes to road death in autumn
  

Some lab alumni

• Brian Allan
• Darcy Ogada
• Jake Goheen
• Michelle Hersh
• Marta Shocket
• Luke Henry
• Parris Humphrey
• Dylan Dahan
• Doug McCauley

Current collaborators

• Rick Ostfeld

Other contacts

• Bard biology faculty
• The Science Division at Bard
• Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies