Behavioral and evolutionary ecology, How evolution shapes sex differences, How evolutionary forces shape fictional heroes

Saunders, J. P. and Ingalls, V.  2013.  Evolutionary Science and Literary Design: Teaching Huxley’s Brave New World in Interdisciplinary Collaboration.  Style 47(2): 239-260.

Ingalls, V. 2012.  Sex differences in the Creation of Fictional Heroes with Particular Emphasis on Female Heroes and Superheroes in Popular Culture: Insights from Evolutionary Psychology.  The Review of General Psychology 16(2): 208-221

Ingalls, V. 2010.  The Hero’s Relationship to Family: A Preliminary Sociobiological Analysis of Sex Differences in Hero Characteristics Using Children’s Fantasy Literature.  Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology 4(4):332-352. 

Staicer, C.A.., Ingalls, V. and Sherry, T.W.  2006.  Singing Behavior Varies with Breeding Status of American Redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla). Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118:439-451.

Ingalls, V. 1993.  Startle and Habituation Responses of Blue Jays (Cyanocitta cristata)in a Laboratory Simulation of Anti-predator Defenses of Catocala Moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).  Behaviour 126: 77-96.

Kroodsma, D.E., Ingalls, V.A., Sherry, T.W., and Werner, T.K.  1987.  Songs of the Cocos Island Flycatcher:  Vocal Behavior of a Suboscine on an Isolated Oceanic Island.  Condor 89: 75-84.

2013: promoted to Full Professor of Biology

2009: Gregory J. Kilgariff Distinguished Service Award: Marist College

2007: Edwards Prize for the best published paper in the 118th volume of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology (see Staicer, Ingalls & Sherry 2006)

1996: Elected Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee/Chair of the Faculty (Marist College) (served 1996-1998)

1995: Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award: Marist College

1992: Carnes Award and American Ornithologists’ Union Research Grant (presented by the American Ornithologists’ Union): The Role of Song in the Breeding-Season Ecology of a Migratory Forest Songbird (The American Redstart)

1983: Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund Award (presented by the American Museum of Natural History): Avian Predator Strategies to Insect Startle Defenses: The Habituation of Blue Jays to Successive Presentations of Startle Stimuli

1980: Nancy Skinner Clark Fellowship (for graduate study), Vassar College

1978: General Honors, Departmental Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, Vassar College