Sue Howell is Primatologist and Biological Anthropologist who joined the Department of Anthropology at UCCS in 2019.  Her training includes BA degrees in Studio Art and Physical Anthropology as well as MS and Ph.D. degrees from Arizona State University, School of Evolution and Social Change in Biological Anthropology.  Her dissertation research focused on the behavioral development of Pan troglodytes (chimpanzees).  Her post doctorial research focused on the behavioral biology of free-ranging rhesus (Macaca mulatta). She has studied a variety of macaques including Macaca mulatta from India and Macaca fascicularis from Southeast Asia. Her current research focuses on social systems ecology and conservation of Alouatta paliata paliata (howler monkeys) at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.  In addition to primatology, she has a broad interest in several areas of anthropology including anthropological theory, forensics/osteology/comparative osteology as well as the culture of animal welfare and serves as a primate behavioral consultant and Chair for an animal care and use committee (IACUC).  In her spare time, she enjoys art museums, acrylic painting, scientific illustration, and fictional writing.

• Ph.D., Arizona State University, School of Evolution and Social Change
• MSc, Arizona State University, School of Evolution and Social Change
• BA, Studio Art and Physical Anthropology, San Jose State University
• Postdoc, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development
• Postdoc, Medicine and Management of Nonhuman Primates, Mannheimer Foundation
• Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Wake Forest University/Bowman Gray School of Medicine
• CPIA (Certified Professional in IACUC Administrator), Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research Society

• Howell, SM. (2018) A bio-behavioral study of chronic idiopathic colitis in the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 137(3-4):208-220.
• Howell SM; Westergaard G; Hoos B; Chavanne T; Shoat SE; Cleveland A; Snoy PJ; Suomi SJ; Higley JD.  Serotonergic influences on life-history outcomes in free-ranging male rhesus monkeys.  American Journal of Primatology 69:851-865, 2007.
• Howell SM ; Schwandt M ; Fritz J ; Marzke MW ; Murphy J ; Young D Effects of early rearing history on growth and behavioral development in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Rearing Of Nonhuman Primates in the 21st Century.  Sackett GP Ruppenthal GC Elias K, Editors.  New York:  Springer. Pgs: 313-354, 2006.
• Howell S; Hoffman K; Bartel L; Schwandt M; Morris J; Fritz J.  Normal hematologic and serum clinical chemistry values for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).  Comparative Medicine. 2003. 53(4), Pgs: 413-423.
• Howell SM; Westergaard G; Jaffe B; Evans T.  The physiological basis of lateralized behavior patterns.  Primate Laterality: Current Behavioral Evidence of Primate Asymmetries, J.P. Ward and W.D. Hopkins (eds.), New York: Springer Science and Business Media.'
• Howell SM; Schwandt M; Fritz J.  Chimpanzees:  A Primer.  Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior, M. Bekoff, Editor 2005, Greenwood Publishing Group.