Faculty Profiles

Katie Gerstner

Doctoral Instructional Assistant — Anthropology

Doctoral Teaching Assistant — Anthropology

Evans Liberal Arts 281

phone: (512) 245-8272

qgw3@txstate.edu

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Gerstner, K. F., & Pruetz, J. D. (2024). Working and impacting local communities as establishing the start of a conservation initiative: American Society of Primatology conservation committee webinar.
Gerstner, K., & Pruetz, J. D. (2022). Wild Chimpanzee Welfare: A Focus on Nutrition, Foraging and Health to Inform Great Ape Welfare in the Wild and in Captivity. Animals, 12(23), 3370.
Gerstner, K. F., & Pruetz, J. D. (2022). Wild chimpanzee welfare: a focus on nutrition, foraging and health to inform great ape welfare in the wild and in captivity.
Gerstner, K. F. (2019). Group sleeping wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) reduce risk of insect exposure: support for the encounter-dilution effect.

Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Doctoral Student of The Year, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. 2025
Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Doctoral Student of The Year, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University. 2025
Award / Honor Recipient: William S. Pollitzer Student Travel Award, American Association of Biological Anthropologists. 2025
Award / Honor Recipient: Small Research Grant, Primate Society of Great Britian. 2024
Award / Honor Recipient: Small Research Grant, Primate Conservation, Incorporated. 2024