Peter S. Rodman | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A., Harvard University, 1963; Ph.D., same, 1973 |
| Awards | U.C. Davis Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physical anthropology |
| Institutions | University of California, Davis |
Peter S. Rodman is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Anthropology. Rodman began teaching and conducting research at Davis in 1972, and continued until 2006. His specialty while a professor there was in the field of physical anthropology and paleontology, and the study of orangutans and their behavior and ecology in particular, although he has also authored or co-authored works on woolly monkeys, on bipedal locomotion in chimpanzees, and reproduction in bonnet macaques . Among other positions while at UC Davis, Rodman held the Chair of the Executive Committee of the school's College of Letters and Sciences as well as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He was closely associated with the California National Primate Research Center, located in Davis, California.
While a professor at UC Davis, Rodman also became known for waging a "one-man battle" to toughen the campus smoke-free policy,[2]