Ellen Ketterson received her Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington and joined the faculty at Indiana in 1984. She is founding director of the Environmental Resilience Institute and also affiliated with the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior, the Neuroscience Program, the Cognitive Science Program, and the Kinsey Institute. She studies the evolution and ecology of behavior and physiology in a songbird species, the Dark-eyed Junco, is currently engaged in research on animal migration and urban ecology.