People

Overseeing the Museum and its growth is the Museum Council (consisting of the curators, museum staff, associated personnel, and one student representative), which establishes policies and develops the annual program and budget priorities. Our Collection Manager, Bob Blinn has full-time curatorial duties, while Andy Deans serves as the director.

Curators

Andrew R. Deans

Assistant Professor and Director of of the Museum, Curator of Hymenoptera

Lewis L. Deitz

Professor Emeritus, Curator of Hemiptera

Herbert H. Neunzig

Professor Emeritus, Curator of Lepidoptera

Brian M. Wiegmann

Professor, Curator of Diptera and Genome Bank

David L. Stephan

Extension Specialist, Insect Identification, Curator of Plecoptera and winter Lepidoptera

Museum Staff

Robert L. Blinn

Collection Manager, systematics of Miridae and Reduviidae (Heteroptera)

Museum Associates

Brian K. Cassel

Research Technician, Assistant Curator of Genome Bank

James R. Baker

Professor Emeritus, horticultural insects, expertise in systematics of apoid Hymenoptera and Megaloptera

Maurice H. Farrier

Professor Emeritus, specialist on soil-inhabiting Mesostigmata (Acarina)

Istvan Miko

Postdoc (Deans Lab), systematics of Ceraphronoidea (Hymenoptera), comparative morphology of Hymenoptera

Shelah I. Morita

Postdoc (Wiegmann lab), Systematics of Tabanidae (Diptera)

P. Sterling Southern

Professor Emeritus, Specialist in Charge of Extension Entomology, expertise in systematics of Cicadellidae (Homoptera)

Isaac S. Winkler

Postdoc (Wiegmann lab), Systematics of Diptera

Students

Keith Bayless

Systematics of Tabanidae (Diptera)

Matt Bertone

Systematics of "Nematocera" (Diptera)

Whitney Swink

Systematics of Empididae (Diptera)

Michelle Trautwein

Systematics of Bombyliidae (Diptera)

Museum Assistants

Caitlin Jackson

Zoology major, helping to rebuild the NCSU Teaching Collection

Honorary Curators