Faculty Profile
Dr. Kerry Dore
Instructor | Science
       
Teaching & Leadership
Bringing college-level scientific research to high school
Dr. Kerry Dore is a renowned primatologist who has presented her research all over the world. She is the lead author of the book Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface (Cambridge University Press) and has published dozens of peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters.

Dr. Dore has over a decade of teaching experience, and she spent years researching primates on St. Kitts and Nevis before coming to Millbrook. For the past five years at Millbrook School, she has taught advanced science classes and continued her research at the Trevor-Lovejoy Zoo, giving students a first-hand look at what it means to be a successful scientist.

She strives to give her students practical training, inspiring passion and curiosity that enables them to live out one of the core values Millbrook School espouses: stewardship of the natural world.
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I want my students to be passionate and ask hard questions.
Highlights
Experience, recognition, and leadership that strengthen teaching across the Millbrook community.
 
11+
Years in independent school education
 
Leadership
MillbrookEngage Program Director
Advanced Science Research Instructor
 
Awards
Charles G J Mayaud Travel Grant, Franklin & Marshall College
 
Departmental Honors, Franklin & Marshall College

Hackman Research Scholar, Franklin & Marshall College
 
Publications
Dore, K.M., Riley, E.P, and Fuentes, A. 2017. Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface. Cambridge University Press.

Dore, K.M. and Daigneault, A. 2025. An integrated ethnoprimatological and economic approach for managing green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) in St. Kitts and Nevis. International Journal of Primatology 46, 1225-1253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-025-00525-y  

Saiyed, S.T., Dore, K.M., & Gettler, L.T. 2025. Entangled existences: an examination of humans and monkeys in Calypso Bay, Saint Kitts. International Journal of Primatology 46, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-025-00489-z  

Dore, K.M. 2024. An ethnographic analysis of “invasive” green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus) management in St. Kitts: boundary making, politics, and the challenges of sustainable coexistence. Revue de Primatologie 15. https://doi.org/10.4000/13hjf

Badihi, G., Nielsen, D.R.K., Garber, P.A., Gill, M., Jones-Engel, L., Maldonado, A.M, Dore, K.M., Cramer, J.D., Lappan, S., Dolins, F., Sy, E.Y., Fuentes, A., Nijman, V., and Hansen, M.F. 2024. Perspectives on conservation impacts of the global primate trade. International Journal of Primatology 45(4): 972-999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-024-00431-9  

Mancuso, D.M., Gainor, K., Dore, K.M., Gallagher, C.A., Beierschmitt, A., Malik, Y.S., Ghosh, S. 2024. Molecular detection and genetic diversity of Cytomegaloviruses and Lymphocryptoviruses in free-roaming and captive African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus). International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25(6): 3272. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25063272

Mancuso, D.M., Gainor, K., Dore, K.M., Gallagher, C.A., Cruz, K., Beierschmitt, A., Malik, Y.S., Ghosh, S. 2023. Detection and molecular characterization of adenoviruses in captive and free-roaming African green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus): evidence for possible recombination and cross-species transmission. Viruses 15: 1605. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15071605

Dore, K.M., Gallagher, C.A., and Mill, A. 2023. Telemetry-based assessment of home range to estimate the abundance of invasive green monkeys in St. Kitts. Caribbean Journal of Science 53: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v53i1.a1

Muehlenbein, M.P.M., Dore, K.M., Gassen., J., Nguyen, V., Jolley, O.G., and Gallagher, C.A. 2021. Travel Medicine meets conservation medicine in St. Kitts: disinhibition, cognitive-affective inconsistency, and disease risk among vacationers around green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus). American Journal of Primatology 84(4-5): e23301. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23301
 
Valentine, M.J., Ciraola, B., Aliota, M.T., Vandenplas, M., Marchi, S., Tenebray, B., Leparc-Goffart, I., Gallagher, C.A., Beierschmitt, A., Corey, T., Dore, K.M., de Lamballerie, X., Wang, C., Murdock, C.C., and Kelly, P.J. 2020. No evidence for sylvatic cycles of chikungunya, dengue and Zika viruses in African green monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) on St. Kitts, West Indies. Parasites Vectors 13: 540. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04419-1

Dore, K.M., M. F. Hansen, A. R. Klegarth, C. Fichtel, F. Koch, A. Springer, P. Kappeler, J. A. Parga, T. Humle, C. Colin, E. Raballand. Z. Huang, X. Qi, A. Di Fiore, A. Link, P. R. Stevenson, D. J. Stark, N. Tan, C. A. Gallagher, C. J. Anderson, C. J. Campbell, M. Kenyon, P. Pebsworth, D. Sprague, L. Jones‐Engel, and A. Fuentes. 2020. Review of GPS collar deployments and performance on nonhuman primates. Primates 61: 373-387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-020-00793-7
 
McKinney, T., and Dore, K.M. 2018. The state of ethnoprimatology: its use and potential in today’s primate research. International Journal of Primatology 39: 730-748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-017-0012-8  

Dore, K.M. 2018. Ethnoprimatology without conservation: the political ecology of farmer-green monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) relations in St. Kitts, West Indies. International Journal of Primatology 39: 918-944. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-018-0043-9
Dore, K.M., Eller, J.L., and Eller, A.R. 2018. Identity construction and symbolic association in farmer-vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) interconnections in St. Kitts. Folia Primatologica 89: 63-80. https://doi.org/10.1159/000479064

Gallagher, C.A., Navarro, R., Cruz, K., Aung, M.S., Ng, A., Bajak, E., Beierschmitt, A., Lawrence, M., Dore, K.M., Ketzis, J., Malik, Y.S., Kobayashi, N., Ghosh. S. 2017. Detection of picobirnaviruses in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus): molecular characterization of complete genomic segment-2. Virus Research 230: 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virusres.2016.12.021

Dore, K.M., Turner, T.R., Lorenz, J.G., Grobler, P.J.  2009.  Integrating geographic information into the analysis of the genetic distribution of South African vervet monkeys.  Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology 1: 112-127. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/94545

Dore, K.M., Water, S., Radford, L., and Alexander, S. 2018. Ethnographic approaches in primatology. Folia Primatologica 89: 5-12.

Dore, K.M. 2018. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife: a Biosocial Approach. Journal of Anthropological Research 74 (3): 434-435.

Dore, K.M., Sewell, D., Mattenet, E., and Turner, T.R. 2021. GIS and GPS techniques in an ethnoprimatological investigation of St. Kitts green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus) crop-foraging behavior. In: Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology: Applying GIS at Varying Scales, ed. Francine Dolins, Christopher A. Shaffer, Leila Porter, Jena R. Hickey, and Nathan P. Nibbelink, pp. 403-427. Cambridge University Press.

Dore, K.M. 2019. Exploring Caribbean green monkeys through an ethnoprimatological lens. In: Savanna Monkeys: The Genus Chlorocebus, ed. Trudy R. Turner, Christopher Schmitt and Jennifer Danzy Cramer, pp 244-254. Cambridge University Press.

Dore, K.M., Jost Robinson, C.A., and Remis, M.J. 2018. Critically engaged conservation: social scientific reflections on primate conservation and sustainable development. Primatology, Bio-cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development in Tropical Forests. UNESCO.

Dore, K.M. 2017. Ethnophoresy. The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. 1-7

Dore, K.M. 2017. Vervets in the Caribbean. The International Encyclopedia of Primatology, 1-3.

Riley, E.P, Fuentes, A., and Dore, K.M. 2017. Introduction: doing ethnoprimatology in the Anthropocene. In: Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface, ed. Kerry M. Dore, Erin P. Riley, and Agustin Fuentes, pp. 1-6. Cambridge University Press.

Dore, K.M. 2017. Navigating the methodological landscape: ethnographic data expose the nuances of “the monkey problem” in St. Kitts, West Indies. In: Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface, ed. Kerry M. Dore, Erin P. Riley, and Agustin Fuentes, pp. 219-231. Cambridge University Press.

Fuentes, A., Riley, E.P., and Dore, K.M. 2017. Ethnoprimatology matters: integration, innovation and intellectual generosity. In: Ethnoprimatology: A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface, ed. Kerry M. Dore, Erin P. Riley, and Agustin Fuentes, pp. 297-301. Cambridge University Press.

Dore, K.M. 2019. Multimodal anthropologies: Special review section on Jane. Morgen, Brett, dir. 90min. English. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2017. American Anthropologist https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13250
 
National
Dore, K.M. The human-green monkey interface in St. Kitts and Nevis: a summary of 15 years of mixed methods data and discussion of potential management strategies. Presented at the 2026 Pathways: Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conference, Oxford, England.

Matusovsky, B., Whittaker, S., Dore, K.M. Living, Breathing, and Eating: Resilience in St. Kitts. Presented at the 2025 Caribbean Studies Association, St. Martin.

Dore, K.M. A combination economical-ethnoprimatological approach to managing green monkeys (Chlorocebus sabaeus) in St. Kitts and Nevis and the challenges of overabundant primate species’ management. Presented at the 2023 International Society of Primatologists Meeting, Kuching, Malaysia.

Bolten, C., Riley, E., Jost Robinson, C., Shaffer, C., Waters, S., and Dore, K.M. The “ethno” in “ethnoprimatology:” evolving methods in an evolving field. Roundtable discussion at the 2019 American Anthropological Association Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Dore, K.M., Eller, J.L., and Eller, A.R. Identity construction and symbolic association in farmer-vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) interconnections in St. Kitts. Presented at the 2018 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting, Austin, TX.

Dore, K.M., Singh, M.D., and Flemming, K. Cause for concern: the potential threat to human health by vervet monkeys in St. Kitts and Nevis. Presented at the 2017 2nd Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop, St. Kitts, West Indies.

Gallagher, C.A., Muehlenbein, M.P., and Dore, K.M. Tourist attitudes and practices regarding contact with primates in the Caribbean. Presented at the 2017 2nd Caribaea Initiative Research & Conservation Workshop, St. Kitts, West Indies.

Eller, A.R. and Dore, K.M. “What makes us human?” A question to engage students, the public, and research. Presented at the 2017 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Dore, K.M. Historical ecology, political ecology, and the human-primate interface. Presented at the 2016 International Primatological Society/American Society of Primatologists Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Navarro, R., Ghosh, S., Gallagher, C., Zuniga-Brenes, K., Ketzis, J., Köster, L.,Robertson, J., Beierschmitt, A., Bajak, E., Ng, A., Lawrence, M., Dore, K.M. Genetic diversity of Picobirnaviruses circulating in different host species on the island of St. Kitts. Presented at the 2015 Student Research Symposium, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, St. Kitts, West Indies.

Dore, K.M. Ethnoprimatology and social science. Presented at the 2015 Mid-South Sociological Association Meeting, Lafayette, LA.

Williams, D.M. and Dore, K.M. Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) in new geographic areas: preliminary data from Florida, St. Maarten/St. Martin, and Tortola. Presented at the 2015 American Anthropological Society Meeting, Denver, CO.

Bajak, E., Gallagher, C., Ng, A., Navarro, R., Lawrence, M., Dore, K.M., and Ghosh, S. Prevalence and genetic diversity of enteric viruses among different green vervet monkey populations on the island of St. Kitts, West Indies. Presented at the 20th (2015) International Bioinformatics Workshop on Virus Evolution and Molecular Epidemiology (VEME), University of West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad & Tobago.

Dore, K.M., Gallagher, C., Mill, A., Eller, A.  More monkeys than people? Population size and ecological flexibility in St. Kitts vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus). Presented at the 2015 American Society of Primatology Meeting, Bend, Oregon.

Dore, K.M., Gallagher, C., Mill, A. Preliminary report on the use of GPS/GSM tracking devices to estimate the vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) population on the island of St. Kitts. Presented at the 2015 American Association of Physical Anthropology Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.

Dore, K.M. The dynamic human-vervet monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) interface in St. Kitts: an ethnoprimatological engagement with wider political-economic systems. Presented at the 2014 American Anthropological Society Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Dore, K.M., Gallagher, C., Porco, A., Schleenbaker, L. Southeast peninsula tracking project and population estimate. Presented at the 2014 “Global Solutions to Regional Challenges: Bridging the One Health Divide” Conference, hosted by Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, St. Kitts, West Indies.

Dore, K.M. “The monkey problem” in St. Kitts: incorporating political ecology into ethnoprimatology. Presented at the 2014 American Association of Physical Anthropology Meeting, Calgary, Alberta Canada.

Dore, K.M and Sewell, D. Using hierarchical linear modeling to predict crop damage by vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) in St. Kitts, West Indies. Presented at the 2013 American Association of Physical Anthropology Meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Dore, K.M.  Assessing farm risk to crop damage by vervet monkeys in St. Kitts, West, Indies. Presented at the 2012 American Association of Physical Anthropology Meeting, Portland, Oregon.

Dec 2024, Durham University. Department of Anthropology, Multipecies Ethnography as a Forum for Dialogue in Anthropology (with Marianna Lien and Simona Capisani)

Sept 2017, UNESCO Mexico International Forum: Primatology, Bio-cultural                                 Diversity and Sustainable Development in Tropical Forests

Sept 2016, University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Anthropology, Lecture Series, Politics and Farmer-Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus aethiops sabaeus) Conflict in St. Kitts

Oct 2015, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Department of Anthropology, Colloquium Series, Sugar Production and the Human-Vervet Monkey Interface in St. Kitts, West Indies

Jan 2015, University of Oregon, Department of Anthropology, Colloquium Series, Ethnoprimatology in St. Kitts: Theoretical Implications and Possible Management Solutions

June 2014, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Noon Seminar, An Open Discussion About the Management of Vervet Monkeys in St. Kitts

March 2014, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Noon Seminar, Monkeys on the Menu? A Discussion of “The Monkey Problem” In St. Kitts and Possible Management Solutions
Nov 2010 Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, Noon Seminar, Actual and Perceived Risk of Vervet Monkey Crop Raiding in St. Kitts

April 2011, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Golda Meir Library, Scholar & The Library Series, Patterns and Perceptions of Vervet Monkey Crop Damage in St. Kitts
 
$200,000+
Research grant money earned
Scientific expertise that breeds future conservationists.
Many teachers at Millbrook are working experts in their fields, and Dr. Dore is one of the more prolific. She continues her research while teaching at Millbrook School, including publishing scholarly articles and traveling internationally to present at conferences.