The American Ornithological Society (AOS) has appointed Christina (Christie) P. Riehl as the new editor-in-chief for its top-ranked journal, Ornithology. She will assume her new role on January 1, 2024, working side-by-side with the journal’s current editor-in-chief T. Scott Sillett until that date.
Dr. Riehl is the first female editor of the journal in its 147-year history. She joins a strong AOS editorial team that includes Ornithological Applications editor-in-chief Catherine Lindell and a cadre of associate editors from both AOS journals.
Dr. Riehl is an associate professor in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at Princeton University. She received her B.A. in biology from Harvard University in 2005, and her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University in 2011. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, then a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She returned to Princeton’s EEB department as an assistant professor in 2015, and became an associate professor in 2022. She studies the ecology and evolution of avian mating systems, parental care, and social behaviors, particularly in the Neotropics, and is particularly interested in how predictions from fundamental evolutionary theory—life history tradeoffs, kin selection, parent-offspring conflict—can explain the diversity of reproductive behaviors in birds. Dr. Riehl’s research is based on field work and combines field experiments with long-term monitoring of individuals and populations.
Dr. Riehl has been an associate editor of Ornithology since 2014, and her research has been published in Ornithology (previously The Auk: Ornithological Advances and The Auk). She was awarded an AOS James G. Cooper Early Professional Award in 2013, and was elected as an Elective Member of the AOS in 2018 and as an AOS Fellow in 2020.
Ornithology is an international, scientific journal of the American Ornithological Society (the other is Ornithological Applications). The journal publishes original research that tests fundamental, scientific hypotheses through ornithological studies and advances our understanding of living or extinct bird species. Descriptive studies are considered if they present important discoveries or methodological advances that open novel avenues of ornithological research.
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