Stuart Alexander and Sandy Cole Marks Collection

Stuart A. Marks is an anthropologist who has focused much of his career on African wildlife management and conservation.  After completing his undergraduate degree in Zoology from North Carolina State University in 1961, Marks went on to receive his Masters of Science in Wildlife/Qualitative Methods from Michigan State University (MSU) in 1964 and his Ph.D. in Ecology/Anthropology in 1968, also from MSU.  He has served as a professor, lecturer, or visiting scholar for Oklahoma State University, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University.  In addition, he has worked with the Safari Club International Foundation as a Senior Scientist and Advisor. Marks’s distinguished career includes numerous major honors and awards, including research grants from the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and Ford Foundation/Foreign Area Fellowship. He was named a Fellow for the National Humanities Center, as well as a Mellon Fellow for Yale University, Center for British Art. He has published five books and has written chapters for nineteen additional publications.  Marks has conducted fourteen major consultancy reports and has also published eighty-two articles in professional journals as of 2009.