Joan E. Strassmann

Joan Strassmann grew up in the forests and fields of central Michigan. She brings a deep love and understanding of this world to her books on birds, Slow Birding, Slow Birding Journal, and Social Lives of Birds. To her work she also brings insights from a career spent studying the tension between cooperation and conflict in organisms as diverse as social wasps and social amoebas. She is Charles Rebstock Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences. She lives with her husband in St. Louis Missouri and Leland Michigan.