Jaime Tanner – Marlboro College Archives

Fields

Education

B.S., University of Massachusetts, 1998
Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2007
Darwin Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Massachusetts, 2008-2010

At Marlboro Since

2010

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With a doctoral degree in both zoology and ecology, evolutionary biology and behavior, Jaime Tanner has spent much of her academic career studying spotted hyenas in Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve. At Marlboro, Jaime encourages her her students to find their own passions in Biology and then to seek out opportunities to gain first-hand experience conducting research. She often extends her classroom beyond its four walls into the forests surrounding campus in her biology, general ecology, winter ecology and many other courses.

Teaching Philosophy

“I strive to equip students with the tools they’ll need to answer questions about the natural world,” says Jaime, who brings her appreciation of experiential and student-driven learning into the classroom. “My goal is for my students to know how to think critically about science and how to ask good scientific questions.” She also has a passion for bringing students into the field to explore other ecosystems in places such as Kenya, Yellowstone National Park and Iceland in winter.

Scholarly Activities

Jaime’s research takes an integrative approach, combining behavioral, morphological and performance data to understand developmental changes in members of the Order Carnivora and other mammals. This research is part of a growing body of literature demonstrating that the relationship between morphology and performance changes as an animal grows and faces different selective pressures throughout their life history. In addition to her own publications, Jaime is a reviewer for Behaviour, Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Morphology and Canadian Journal of Zoology.

Selected Publications

“Ontogenetic change in skull morphology and mechanical advantage in the spotted hyena, (Crocuta crocuta).” Tanner, J.B., M.L. Zelditch, B.L. Lundrigan & K.E. Holekamp. Journal of Morphology, 271 (2010): 353-365.
“Post-weaning maternal effects and the evolution of female dominance in the spotted hyena.” Watts, H.E., J.B. Tanner, B.L. Lundrigan & K.E. Holekamp. Proceedings of the Royal Society B276 (2009): 2291-2298.
“Of Arcs and Vaults: The biomechanics of bone-cracking in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).” Tanner, J.B., E.R. Dumont, S.T. Sakai, B.L. Lundrigan & K.E. Holekamp. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95 (2008): 246-255.
“Ontogenetic variation in the play behavior of spotted hyenas.” Tanner, J.B., L. Smale & K.E. Holekamp. Journal of Developmental Processes 2(2)(2007):5-30.

Sponsored Plans

Drawing of a character kneeling on a field of grass

The Mirror of Stories: Examinations of Miguel Ángel Asturias’ “Leyenda de la Tatuana” and Ahmet Hilmi’s Awakened Dreams, and a retelling of a myth

Avellana Ross, 2019

Paintings of nude brown women, bright colors, and animals

Paradise, para quién?: How small communities (re)claim space in the Costa Rican tourism industry

Alicia Lowden, 2019

An illustration from Kristen Thompson’s novella A Tree Awakens

A landscape of interactions: Sustainable land use from farm to forest to fiction

Kristen Thompson, 2019

A multidimensional study of the Latino-American narrative

Emmett Wood, 2019

A vase with illustrations based from a scene from Oresteia

Ambitions as a writer: Or, diamond is unbreakable

Tristan Rolfe, 2019

An exploration of traditional networking/web development technologies and the current state of distributed networking

Nathaniel Weeks, 2019

Carnivore ecology through study and story

Daniel Medeiros, 2019

Graph of Taux de risque de pauvreté au travail en France et en Allemagne (2005-2017)

Chômage, immigration, et réforme: Evaluating unemployment in Emmanuel Macron’s France

Jonathan Bork, 2019

Post-cute: Beyond craft and cool Japan

Henry Robinson, 2019

Rhythms of becoming: The transformative potential of holistic education

Clayton Clemetson, 2019

Right-wing populism and anti-immigrant sentiment in American politics

Robert Kinoy, 2019

The economics of wellbeing: Measuring what we value, curbing climate change, and affordable housing

Spencer Knickerbocker, 2019

The squeaky wheel gets the oil: Community organizing and the rise of neoliberalism in the 21st century

Alex Lawsure, 2019

Home, belonging

Hava Toobian, 2019

A piece from Izzy Yandell’s Plan exhibit.

Interactions between the state and the public in urban space

Izzy Yandell, 2019

Huston Park Wilderness in the Sierra Madres.

“A group of trees is called a forest”: An accidental education in the West, the wild, and a changing world

Sophie Ackerman, 2018

Andrew Domzal describes his Plan of Concentration during a Plan Presentation in Rice Aron Library.

“I am fully what I am”: Philosophy, literature, and the lived experience of race

Andrew Domzal, 2018

Amelia in Tunisia during her internship.

“I am the system”: Power in North African regimes

Amelia Fanelli, 2018

A chart of gender conforming, androgynous, and highly gender non-conforming adolescents in California.

A question of gender: A different approach to transgender equality

Jennifer Hunt, 2018

All in a day’s work: Psychological trauma among rural Vermont emergency medical services

Sarah Warner, 2018

A selection of Michael Jung’s Plan show, “Fabric of Motion.”

An artistic articulation of beauty within movement

Michael Jung, 2018

Stefan Walcerz and friend Skyler Miller.

Behavioral economics and Nudge Theory

Stefan Walcerz, 2018

Being, place, resistance: Phenomenological and critical approaches

Christopher Lamb, 2018

Cultivating discomfort: An exploration of existentialism and horror

Autumn Mackin, 2018

A scene from Griff Jurchak’s Plan show titled “Simpleton: An installed drawing.”

Drawing from life: Possibilities in cartooning

Griff Jurchak, 2018

Glycolalia: An exploration of the nature and function of style and the fictive reality in storytelling

Lucas Wooden, 2018

One of Sam Amber’s art installations in the woods.

Lacking: A reckoning with absence through the lenses of Beloved, Housekeeping, and Infinite Jest

Samuel Amber, 2018

In an illustration from the Shahnameh, Rostam mourns the death of his father and his uncle.

Literary markers of anxiety in the works of Shakespeare and Ferdowsi

Benjamin Rejali, 2018

A map of “correctness” of English language usage in the US from the perception of English speakers in Michigan.

Neoliberalism and the benefits of cultural fluency through language education

Charlotte Nicholson, 2018

A detail from Hannah McGowan’s Plan show titled “On Closeness.”

On Closeness: Explorations of intimacy through narrative, sculpture, and translation

Hannah McGowan, 2018

Planetary Science: Learning and presenting physics, astronomy, planetary science, and the history of spaceflight

Samuel Bunker, 2018

Fiona Craig gives the student address, on the theme of forgiveness, at Marlboro’s 2018 commencement.

Punishment, Incarceration, and Forgiveness

Fiona Craig, 2018

Racial and individual identity as it pertains to black women through the lenses of performance and painting

Saron Zewdie, 2018

The set for Didi and Gogo, an adaptation of Waiting for Godot.

Technical theater: Set design and script analysis

Matteo Lanzarotta, 2018

Musical score for soprano and violoncello by Helen Pinch, titled “So On A (Quiet Descended) with text by Virginia Woolf

The Body Alone Listens: An exploration of the sounds of Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway through musical composition and literary analysis

Helen Pinch, 2018

Collection of artwork from Cait Mazzarella’s art show, “What’s left?”

What’s left: After losing community, home, and sense of self through poverty and displacement

Caitlin Mazzarella, 2018

Witness to change: Vipassana meditation and experiential sound

Lysha Smith, 2018

Biomedicine, psychotherapy, and YOU: Subjectivity in mental health

Iain Haukka, 2018

“Father, forgive them for they know not what they do”: Themes and manifestations of pro-life rhetoric

Hannah Noblewolf, 2018

A memorial to the 1676 Turner’s Falls massacre.

Violence, racial difference, and historical memory: European colonists and Indigenous peoples in the 17th century

Thomas Marshall, 2018

(Inte)gration: connections between whiteness, deserving-ness, and belonging in the Swedish welfare state

Mikaela Geary, 2017

Adolescent development and poverty & homelessness

Kathleen Mackin, 2017

Forming the unfathomable: Unique approaches in experimental American fiction

Andrew Hart, 2017

Forms of atrophy: The fragments of separate realities

Sterling Trail, 2017

Free improvisation and electronic music composition

Tim Bedford, 2017

Intentions and operations

Logan Davis, 2017

Le vent souffle où il veut: Examinations of grace and despair in the works of Robert Bresson and Simone Weil

Eve Moeykens-Arballo, 2017

It is more than just food: A practice-as-research approach to teaching experiential learning courses through the lens of food

Krystal Graybeal, 2017

Mathematical structures: Foundations & explorations

John McGill, 2017

Tending to Place: Communities, lands, histories in Memphis, Northern Minnesota, Chilean Patagonia, and Northern New Mexico

Matthew McIntosh, 2017

The ecology, conservation, and land use changes surrounding vulnerable plant mutualisms and natural community types

Andrea Terrell, 2017

The things I never said

Lindsay Stevens, 2017

The whole zucchini: An engaged-Buddhist eco-theology of foodways

Solomon Botwick-Rise, 2017

A man shoots out through an old television

David Hall’s influences on video art

Ian Grant, 2017

Slow: A study of ceramic works that engage the values of the slow food movement

Sarah Palacios, 2017

A chamber opera based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Felix Jarrar, 2016

A series of investigative efforts into the syntax, semantics, and morphology of Mandarin Chinese directional constructions

Matthew Czuba, 2016

A study of the filmmaking process from screenwriting through production and post-production

Jenny Smyth, 2016

An exploration of pragmatism and the meaning of wisdom in the Saṁdhinirmocana Sūtra and its relevance for contemporary Buddhist thought and practice

Edward Suprenant, 2016

Anatomy and art: Developing anatomical research during the Renaissance

Cassandra Anderson, 2016

Authentication: Techniques and theory

Samuel Judson, 2016

BisphenolA: an endocrine disrupting chemical that alters estrogenic activities

Haneulsol Kim, 2016

Confronting climate change: An interdisciplinary approach

Ian Hitchcock, 2016

Don’t tell me to “fuck the patriarchy”—I already am

Mary Gilmore, 2016

Engaging both the aesthetic and cognitive aspects of objects in visual space

Ethan Minkema, 2016

Exploring popular music paradigms across cultures, through cyberspace, and in my own practice

Liana Nuse, 2016

Exploring the simple complexities of trust

Lily Kane, 2016

Inner realities and corporealities

Jennifer Dudley, 2016

Is it me? For a moment: An inquiry into themes of identity in youth subcultures in post-war Britain

Sarah Scott, 2016

Light

Naji Forest Pride, 2016

Order and intuition: An exportation of musical objectivity and subjectivity

John Ivers, 2016

Ruptured reciprocity: Stories of haunting, spirits, and medical belief from Cambodians and Cambodian Americans

Emily Tatro, 2016

Storytellers: Generationality, working-class identity, and women’s personal narrative

Kelly Hickey, 2016

That they can talk: Themes of communication in wordless novels and post-apocalyptic literature

Sophia Gorjance, 2016

The personal is the political is the psychopathological: Theories on the etiology and teleology of sex and gender

Emma Rusbarsky, 2016

This anaesthetic against loneliness: Theatrical methods of telling our story

Laura Stakiwicz, 2016

Visceral experience

Colin Leon, 2016

Western combat through history and film: An introduction to the work and artistic mission

Reily Mumpton, 2016

Brazilian migration to Martha’s Vineyard

Sasha Iammarino, 2016

Through the Dharma: Explorations of Form and Emptiness in Ceramics and Buddhist Studies

Michael Schneeweis, 2014

Towards a Radical Tenderness: A Call for Inclusivity within the Trans Movement

Vivian Gay, 2014

“I will embrace suffering and begin to live”: A study of suffering in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Dostoevsky

Eftihia Loupakis, 2015

“The Dark Voicelessness in Which the Words Are the Deeds”: Considering Death and Grief through Reading and Writing

Haley Peters, 2015

Happy End: Bertolt Brecht in Performance and Translation

Olivia Schaaf, 2015

Slow: A study of ceramic works that engage the values of the slow food movement

Sarah Palacios, 2017

Buster Keaton, A Funny Man

Erika Klemperer, 2015

Convergence and Divergence: Finding a framework for a more equitable society

Clair Maleney, 2015

Enough for All: Feeding the human population by preserving the integrity, stability, and beauty of the land community

Clair Trail, 2015

Incorporating Bibliotherapy into Higher Education Settings: A literature review, research study, collaboration, and literary essay

Ivy Woodrow, 2015

Layers of Legality: Interactions between State Law, International Law, and Shariah

Amelia Brown, 2015

Phenomenological Investigations of Expression, Perception, and the Lived Body

Aidan Keeva, 2015

Puppetry and Protest: An exploration of theater as a response to social issues stemming from the Vietnam Conflict

Peter Scibak, 2015

The dirt on mutualism

Elizaveta Mitrofanova, 2015

The Keeping House: Poems, short fiction, and an essay on the travel poems of Elizabeth Bishop

Anna Blackburn, 2015

The one constant thing: The role of the body in cognition

Chandra Wade, 2015

The precious and bitter remains: A conversation between possessions, space, and desire

Maya Rohr, 2015

Visualizing data: Maps, graphs, and the coffee Industry

Anna Goren, 2015

War stories: Exploring the progression of Tim O’Brien and the gendered nature of war literature and film

Victoria Fura, 2015

Raise the rafters: A study of harmony through architecture, music, and craft theory

Mia Bertelli, 2015

Pictorial embroidery in the Early Republican female academy

Dakota Walsh, 2015

An examination of contemporary unchurched spirituality in theory and dance

Alex Bobella, 2015

Cocoons: Transformation through Fantasy

Kirsten Wiking, 2014

Connection and Design: The World Through Science and Art

Kathryn Lyon, 2014

Foxholes, Flowers, and The European War

Samantha Grayck, 2014

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevention through Western and Eastern Lenses: The Biology of HPV, Vaccine Acceptance in China, and Dietary Therapy

Alison Wu, 2014

Humanity at the Crossroads: An Overview of Contemporary Trends and Future Energy Sources

Andrew Shough, 2014

On Authorship and Materiality: Inquiries Into Art’s Ability to Function Beyond the Structure of the “Artist” and the “Object”

Patrick Lancaster, 2014

Plants and Cancer: A study of the diverse pharmacological activities of compounds derived from plants, especially hops (Humulus lupulus L.) and stinging nettle (Urtica dioica L.), with a focus on anticancer activity

Daniel Zagal, 2014

Rooted: Exploring Ecological Citizenship, Reinvigorating a Vital Relation to the Land

Ayla Mullen, 2014

Symbiosis: Forging Relationships in a Fragmented Landscape

Eric Dennis, 2014

The Family of Abraham: An Exploration of Familial Relationships and Ethical Dilemmas in the Biblical Story of Abraham.

Michael McIvor, 2014

The Image of Memory: Structure, Desire, and Identity in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time and other selected works

Nora Dunne, 2014

The indigestible narratives of the American past

Emma Thacker, 2014

Changing the narrative: A case study of contemporary activism in Boston’s Chinatown

Kara Hamilton, 2014

Three landscapes: Building America after World War II

David Amato, 2014

A wild door: Human experiences of nonhuman animality

Adam Halwitz, 2014

Uncovering Selfhood: Acquisition of Knowledge of the Self for Women in Victorian Literature and History

Jessica Stout, 2013

Using Paint: Abstraction of Realism and Representation in Works by Robert Ryman and Susan Rothenberg

Ashley Gray, 2013

Comparison photo of different yeast strains

Thoughtful Zymurgy: A Holistic Study of the Art and Practice of Brewing Beer

Elliot Samuel-Lamm, 2013

Poster for the Movie version of Oklahoma!

There’s Nothing Like a Broadway Show: An examination of musical theater in American culture

Emily Cox, 2013

Rent Seeking and Economic Methodology

Raven Hetzler, 2013

Reflections on the Nature of Survival: the Role of Facilitation in the Conservation of Sonoran Desert Foundation Species

Tristan Stamm, 2013

Animation still from Steamboat Willie with Micky and Minnie Mouse and Pluto

Frames of Reference: An Examination of the Adaptive Nature of Animation

Evan Lorenzen, 2013

Empowerment through education: A study of sexuality education and how it relates to social inequality

Margaret Wood, 2013

Avenues of change: A study of development and social change with a focus on organizational strategies and structures

Kelsa Summer, 2013

group of people drinking around a table wearing masks

Another version of the truth: An expedition into theatrical adaptation and immersion

Evan Lamb, 2013

“I have wreathed round the wounds the best of healing wreaths”: Ritual and religious healing in early modern Europe and present-day Peru

Nicole Haeger, 2013

Ugly modernity: Governance, violence, and the money economy in Mexico

Scott Weaver, 2012

The shoulders of a giant: Freud’s followers, critics, and the future of psychoanalysis

Nicholas Collura, 2012

The brutality of fiction: A Plan in playwriting and sculpture

Logan Smith, 2012

Religion and identity: An analysis of the relationship between Christianity and adolescent identity development in the U.S.

Lillian C. J. de Vrijer, 2012

Observations & Interpretations: Solar physics and the quantum foundations

Trevor Bowen, 2012

Move me: A Plan of Concentration in dance and poetry

Cookie Harrist, 2012

Flowchart showing the relationship between institutional structure and effectiveness

Global food institutions and effectiveness: Institutional structure, economics, and politics

Casey Friedman, 2012

Donna Leathrum, now I know

Grace Leathrum, 2012

Knowing childbirth: A Plan of Concentration in medical anthropology

Cailin Mardsen, 2012

Image of Tennessee Williams smoking a cigarette

Pity for the wild: The corrupted world of Tennessee Williams

Elizabeth Hull, 2011

Long from home lost: A cross study in film and ancient Greek based around Homer’s Odyssey

Katheryn Lloyd, 2011

A map of mining operations on the Chile-Argentina border.

El oro y la plata no se pueden comer: Mining impacts, policy, and resistance in Latin America

Chrissy Raudonis, 2011

Abstract image of a bicycle, ladder, clouds and waves with the title Hallways to Harbors

Danced topographies: A study of dynamic relationships between place and movement through choreography and sociology

Kenyon Acton, 2011

Diagram of several aspects of experiments used in this plan.

Solar energy and the future of photovoltaics

Joshua Boykin, 2010

Plan Colombia: From language teaching to the ironies of progress

Antonio Iaccarino, 2010

A chair next to a picture of a chair on a wall

Performing the object: An interdisciplinary study of conceptual and performance artists 1965 – 1975 and contemporary performance practices

Sophia Cleary, 2010

Mysterious mortalities: A study of white nose syndrome and G. destructans from a molecular biology perspective

Morgan Ingalls, 2010

An introduction to the physics of wind turbines

Alec Koumjian, 2010

My secret is not different than my lament: Engaging with the ineffable through music

Michael Harrist, 2010

Pragmatism for philosophy, economics, and environmental policy

Isaac Lawrence, 2010

Words slightly overlapping: Explorations in contemporary theater and biochemistry

James Young, 2009

Reassessing socialist realism and the lie

Molly Bruce, 2009

Molding women: Beauty ideals, self-image, and body work in American culture

Kimberly Geraci, 2009

Implications of apathy: The politics of desire

Margaret Jones, 2007

Computerized mathematics and the mathematics of computation

Ambrose Sterr, 2007

Fragments of empire: Effects of Japanese imperialism in Korea, China, Japan, and Vietnam

John Dunham, 2005

News

Jaime Tanner on Form and Function in Nature and Dogs on the Common

Conversation on the relationship between form and function in the anatomy, particularly skulls, of spotted hyenas.

Marlboro Student Receives Fulbright Award

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