History of museums; history of natural history specimen preparation; herpetofauna of the Andes ; management of museum collections. Recent books and papers include Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management (2002); The theoretical bases of collections management (2003); Cuidado, Manejo y Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas , (with Yaneth Muñoz-Saba, 2005); Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies (2006).

History of museums; history of natural history specimen preparation; herpetofauna of the Andes ; management of museum collections

2004. Managing things: crafting a collections policy. Museum News 83(1):29-31; 47-48

2004. What should we call the components of museum collections? Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Newsletter 18(1):9-10.

2004. Museums. Pp. 208-209 in Wishart, D.J. (editor). Encyclopedia of the Great Plains . University of Nebraska Press , Lincoln , xviii + 919 pp.

2005. Simmons, J.E. and Y. Muñoz-Saba (editors). Cuidado, Manejo y Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas , Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Conservación Internacional, Ministerio de Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial, Fondo para la Acción Ambiental , Bogotá D.C., 288 pp.

MUSE 704, Museum Collections Management; MUSE 710, Current Topics in Curation and Collections Management; MUSE 780, Special Topics; MUSE 782, Seminar in Current Museum Topics; MUSE 790, Advanced Study; MUSE 792, Directed Readings

M.A., Historical Administration and Museum Studies, University of Kansas , 1988; B.S., Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas , 1976