Dr Nicholas Malone
PhD
Biography
- Senior Lecturer in Anthropology
Research | Current
- Primate behaviour, ecology and conservation
- Biological anthropology and ethnoprimatology
- Research ethics and multi-species entanglements
Dr Nicholas Malone is an anthropologist with a broad interest in the social and ecological lives of primates, especially those of apes and humans. Specifically, he seeks to understand how the observed patterns of variability within and between taxa are simultaneously shaped by, and act as shaping factors of, evolutionary processes. Additionally, Nicholas strives to contribute to primate conservation through a commitment to engaging with local and extra-local efforts. Finally, Dr Malone wishes to situate the study of primates within the broader contexts of anthropology, history, and research ethics. His writing is informed by research experiences in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Teaching | Current
ANTHRO 102 How Humans Evolve
ANTHRO 245 Evolutionary Anthropology Today
ANTHRO 726AB Advanced Biological Anthropology
ANTHRO 749 Advanced Primatology
Postgraduate supervision
Doctoral Supervision
2013 – Present: Shared Landscapes: The Human-Gorilla Interface and the Implications for Cross River Gorilla Conservation. Ms Alison Wade, PhD Thesis, Department of Anthropology.
2011 – Present: A Political Ecology of Javan Gibbon Conservation. Ms Megan Selby, PhD Thesis, School of Environment.
Responsibilities
PhD Advisor, Anthropology
Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)
- Malone, N., & Ovenden, K. (2017). Natureculture. In A. Fuentes (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Primatology (pp. ). Wiley. 10.1002/9781119179313.wbprim0135
- Malone, N., Palmer, A., & Wade, A. H. (2017). Incorporating the ethnographic perspective: The value, process and responsibility of working with human participants. In K. M. Dore, E. P. Riley, A. Fuentes (Eds.) Ethnoprimatology: A practical guide to research at the human-nonhuman primate interface (pp. 176-189). Cambridge, UK.: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781316272466.015
- Palmer, A., Malone, N., & Park, J. (2015). Accessing Orangutans’ Perspectives. Current Anthropology, 56 (4), 571-578. 10.1086/682053
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Julie Park - Malone, N., Wade, A. H., Fuentes, A., Riley, E. P., Remis, M., & Robinson, C. J. (2014). Ethnoprimatology: Critical interdisciplinarity and multispecies approaches in anthropology. CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY, 34 (1), 8-29. 10.1177/0308275X13510188
- Longo, S. B., & Malone, N. (2013). Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Rusting Myths About Human Nature. MONTHLY REVIEW-AN INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST MAGAZINE, 64 (10), 53-56.
- Malone, N., Fuentes, A., & White, F. J. (2012). Variation in the Social Systems of Extant Hominoids: Comparative Insight into the Social Behavior of Early Hominins. International Journal of Primatology, 33 (6), 1251-1277. 10.1007/s10764-012-9617-0
- Malone, N. (2009). The State of Biological Anthropology in 2008: Is Our Discipline Strong and Our Cause Just ?. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, 111 (2), 146-152. 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01107.x
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/12783
Contact details
Primary location
HUMAN SCIENCES BUILDING - EAST - Bldg 201E
Level 7, Room 722
10 SYMONDS ST
AUCKLAND 1010
New Zealand