(February 2019)
CHRISTOPHER KENNETH STARR
Professor of Entomology (retired), University of the West Indies
Address
c/o Department of Life Sciences
University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
ckstarr@gmail.com
Birth
• 16 August 1949 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship
• Canadian; permanent resident of Trinidad & Tobago
Education
• Early schooling in Canada, USA and Germany
• Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, BA (Biology) 1973
• University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, MA (Entomology) 1976
• University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, PhD (Entomology) 1981
• Dissertation: Defensive Tactics of Social Wasps
Postdoctoral experience
• University of the West Indies, 1991-2014, Senior Lecturer and then Professor of Entomology
• National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 1990-1991, Visiting Specialist
• University of Georgia, 1988-1990, Postdoctoral Associate in Horticulture
• Smithsonian Institution, 1987-88, Postdoctoral Fellow in Entomology
• De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 1983-87, Professorial Lecturer and Associate Professor of Biology
• Visayas State College of Agriculture, Philippines, 1981-83, Associate Professor of Entomology
Membership in scholarly societies
• American Arachnological Society
• Association of Caribbean Historians
• International Society of Hymenopterists
• International Union for the Study of Social Insects
• Sigma Xi
Professional services
• 1978-1979, Editor, Polistine Information Bulletin
• 1979-2010, organizer or co-organizer of several symposia on the biology of social insects and the history of biology
• 1989, Special Committee on Translation, Entomological Society of America
• 1990-2011, organizing committee of several national and regional scientific meetings
• 1991-1992, English editor, Chinese Journal of Entomology
• 1991-1993, English editor, Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Sciences
• 1992-present, Archivist, International Union for the Study of Social Insects
• 2001-2011, 2015-2019, International Secretary, Andean-Caribbean Section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects
• 2011-2015, Membership Secretary, Andean-Caribbean Section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects
Language
• Native language English.
• Reading knowledge of most major modern Germanic and Romance languages, good speaking knowledge of some.
• Basic reading knowledge of Russian.
• Speaking knowledge of some East Asian languages adequate for field work (when warmed up).