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Diane Perushek

Diane Perushek began studying Chinese at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, before pursuing graduate work in modern Chinese literature at Columbia University and classical Chinese fiction at Princeton University. She studied language and conducted dissertation research in Taiwan and Japan for a total of four years... More »

Stuart Pimm

Conservation biologist Stuart Pimm is a member of National Geographic's grant-giving Committee for Research and Exploration. He is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at Duke University and winner of the 2006 Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences... More »

Robert Poole

Former executive editor of National Geographic magazine Robert Poole produced articles ranging from imperial Japan and African wildlife to Winslow Homer. He is the author of Explorers House, a widely acclaimed history of the National Geographic Society; and the newly released On Hallowed Ground, the first comprehensive history of Arlington National Cemetery... More »

Jill Pruetz

National Geographic Emerging Explorer Jill Pruetz is a biological anthropologist who specializes in primatology. An associate professor at Iowa State University, Jill spent two years in East Africa researching patas and vervet monkeys as well as Grevy's zebras... More »

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