Glenn Geher is Professor and Psychology as well as Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Glenn teaches several courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels—including Statistics, Social Psychology, and Evolutionary Psychology—and has won the New Paltz Alumni Association's Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award and the Friends of the Alumni Association Award in addition to the State University of New York Chancellor's Awards for Teaching Excellence, Scholarly Excellence, and Service Excellence. He also won an award for outstanding advising from NACADA, the global association for academic advising. Glenn also received the first-ever Lifetime Achievement award from the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society.

First and foremost, Glenn is a teacher, and his primary goal is to educate and support his students and to facilitate their success as they develop across their careers.

Glenn's publications generally address two broad themes—the interface of human evolutionary psychology and positive psychology (i.e., Positive Evolutionary Psychology) along with research on the state of Evolutionary Psychology within the landscape of academia. Among Glenn's publications are an edited book published with Nova Publishers ("Measuring Emotional Intelligence") and an edited book with Erlbaum ("Mating Intelligence: Sex, Relationships, and the Mind's Reproductive System"—co-edited with Geoffrey Miller). Glenn is also co-author of "Mating Intelligence Unleashed" (co-written with Scott Barry Kaufman). Glenn's other books include "Straightforward Statistics" (co-authored with Sara Hubbard - published with Oxford University Press) and "Evolutionary Psychology 101" (published with Springer). Glenn is a co-editor of Darwin's Roadmap to the curriculum (published by Oxford University Press) and is co-author of Positive Evolutionary Psychology (also published with Oxford). Glenn is sole author of "Own Your Psychology Major! A guide to student success" published by the APA.

Glenn's passion for evolution has led him to take leadership roles regarding he NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) as well as the award-winning SUNY New Paltz Evolutionary Studies program.

Glenn also directs the New Paltz Evolutionary Psychology lab, which churns out research on various topics related to evolution and behavior.

Glenn has many hobbies, including hiking, running, weightlifting, cooking, tennis, racquetball, basketball, roller hockey, ice hockey, football, fishing, canoeing, cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, caving, swimming, travel, camping, and working on his blog: Darwin's Subterranean World (for Psychology Today). He's also lead guitar player for the Hudson Valley's only all-professor punk rock band: Questionable Authorities.

To learn more about Glenn, check out his website: glenngeher.com