Deborah Gordon

Deborah M. Gordon is a biologist at Stanford University. Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on red harvester ants. She focuses on the developing behavior of colonies, even as individual ants change functions within their own lifetimes. Gordon's fieldwork includes a long-term study of ant colonies in Arizona. She is the author of numerous articles and papers as well as the book Ants at Work for the general public, and she was profiled in the New York Times Magazine in 1999. Gordon received a PhD in zoology from Duke in 1983, an MSc in Biology from Stanford in 1977 and Bachelors from Oberlin College, where she majored in French. She was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. In 1993 Gordon...