SHIRLEY A. GRAHAM, CURATORMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
FIELD OF STUDY
Systematics and evolution of the flowering plants, specializing in the plant family Lythraceae, the
Loosestrifes, the species, their evolutionary and biogeographical history. Currently I am focused
on two projects: producing a modern monograph of the ca. 250 species of the tropical American
genus Cuphea, incorporating data from morphology, molecular phylogenies, palynology,
chromsomes, and seed oil chemistry; and with two colleagues, to complete a family phylogeny
and sufficient markers to expose the most basal evolutionary branches and representative of all
genera.
EDUCATION
1957 - B.S., Michigan State University, Biology
1960 - M.A., University of Michigan, Biology
1963 - Ph.D., University of Michigan, Botany
1964 - Post-Doctoral, Harvard University, Botany
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS
1958 - Fulbright Scholarship, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1959 - Horace H. Rackham Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan
1961 - University Scholar and National Science Foundation Summer Fellowship
1962 - University Fellow
1979 - Henkel Corporation Research Travel Grant, $5000
1981 - Procter & Gamble Research and Travel Grant, $7000
1984-1987 - National Science Foundation BSR 8314366 - Research Award, $124,968
1988-1991 - National Science Foundation BSR 8806523 - Research Award, $99,305
1991-1993 - National Science Foundation DEB 9210543 - Career Advancement Award, $44,000
1995-1999 - National Science Foundation DEB 9509524 - Research Award, $160,000
1996-1997 - NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplemental Award, $5000
1997-1998 - NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Supplemental Award, $5000
1998 - Finalist, Distinguished Scholar Award, Kent State University
1998 - Elected Fellow, Ohio Academy of Sciences
1999 - Board of Directors, Ohio Plant Biotechnological Consortium,
2000-2001 - Ohio Plant Biotechnology Consortium, 1 year competitive research award, jointly to
Dr. James Metzger, Professor and Kiplinger Chair of Floriculture, OSU, and S. Graham, $9,376
2002 – American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group
on Cuba - $3000
2004 - American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba - $3000
2008 - National Geographic Society, $16,181
2014- 2017 -Brazilian Government, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Ministry of
Science. “Ciências sem Fronteiras” , as “Special Visiting Researcher (Pesquisador Visitante Especial), 3 year grant with CO-PI, T.Cavalcanti – Fellowship Global Grant Amount, Reais R$ 191, 951, 47.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1964-1974 Temporary Instructor, Kent State Biological Sciences
1965-1966 University of Akron, Department of Biology
1983-1989 Laboratory Coordinator and Adjunct Associate Professor, Kent State Biological Sciences
1989-1993 Assistant Professor, Kent State Biological Sciences1993-1998 Associate Professor, Kent State Biological Sciences
1998-2002 Professor, Kent State Biological Sciences
2002- Professor Emerita, Kent State University
2002- Curator, Lythraceae, Missouri Botanical Garden
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Reviewer for numerous national and international botanical journals - continuing
Chair, Archives Committee, Botanical Society of America, 2004-2008
External reviewer, 7-year review, Dept. of Environmental and Plant Science, Ohio University, 2001
Board of Directors, Ohio Plant Biotechnological Consortium, 1999-2001
President Elect, President, Past-President, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 1998-2001
Board of Directors, Elected Member, American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1997-1999
Editorial Board, Systematic Botany Monographs, 1998- 2001
Editorial Board, Association for Advancement of Industrial Crops and Products,1991-2002
Editorial Board, Botanical Society of America, Plant Science Bulletin, 1987-1989
National Science Foundation Systematic Biology Advisory Panel, 3 year appt., 1989-1992
Treasurer, American Society of Plant Taxonomists, 1983-1986
SELECTED RECENT COLLABORATORS AND OTHER
