Alisa J. Winkler
Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275
and Department of Cell Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, Texas, 75290
USA

Alisa Winkler is an Research Professor II of Geological Sciences at Southern Methodist University and an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology (Anatomy) at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. She received her Ph.D. in Geology from Southern Methodist University. Her major research interests are in the systematics, paleobiogeography, paleoecology, and functional morphology of small mammals, primarily rodents and lagomorphs. Her current research focuses on Miocene and early Pliocene small mammals from East Africa.