I grew up in New Hampshire, where I developed a passion for birds and the natural world. During college, I fell in love with evolutionary biology through coursework with influential professors at Cornell. I have combined these interests into a research career on avian genomics and evolution.

• LSU College of Science Outstanding Dissertation Award - Louisiana State University (01/01/2016-12/31/2016)
• LSU Outstanding Dissertation Award finalist - Louisiana State University (01/01/2016-12/31/2016)
• Hamilton Award finalist - Society for the Study of Evolution (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• LSU BioGrads Research Symposium Award - Louisiana State University (01/01/2012-12/31/2012)
• T. Vinton Holmes Award - Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science (01/01/2012-12/31/2012)
• Virginia L. Mouw Award in Ornithology - Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science (01/01/2011-12/31/2011)

• Ph D in Biology , Louisiana State University (2015)
• BA in Biology, Cornell University (2008)

• Diversity - volume relationships: Adding structural arrangement and volume to species - area relationships across forest macrosystems Ecography 7 (2023), Elizabeth LaRue, Anna G. Downing, Sheila Saucedo, Arturo Rocha, Sergio A. Vargas Zesati, Vicente Mata-Silva, Michael G. Harvey.
• Can evolution proceed on multiple axes? A test of the transfer hypothesis in suboscine birds (2022), Oscar Johnson, Emily Johns, Joseph Tobias, Michael G. Harvey.
• Resolving the phylogenetic affinities of Leptotila battyi Rothschild, 1901 provides insight into Leptotila (Aves: Columbidae) taxonomy and the biogeography of Coiba Island (Panama) Zootaxa (2022), Matthew J. Miller, George R. Angehr, Celestino Aguilar, Christina M. Blewett, Isis Ochoa, Kevin Winker, Michael G. Harvey, Rosalind C. Remsen, Robb T. Brumfield.
• A review of phylogeography in the Madrean Sky Island archipelago (2022), Michael Buontempo, Michael G. Harvey.
• Environmental drivers of the evolution of migration in suboscine birds (2022), Emily Johns, Oscar Johnson, Michael G. Harvey.
• The timeline of speciation in white-eyes (Aves; Thamnophilidae; Pyriglena): A genomic perspective (2022), Manuelita Sotelo, Marcos Maldonado-Coelho, Cristina Miyaki, Michael G. Harvey.
• Amazonian birds in more dynamic habitats have less population genetic structure and higher gene flow Molecular Ecology (2022), Oscar Johnson, Camila Ribas, Alexandre Aleixo, Luciano Naka, Michael G. Harvey, Robb Brumfield.
• Fine-scale population genetic structure and barriers to gene flow in a widespread seabird Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 137 (2022), Rachael W. Herman, Benjamin M. Winger, Donna L. Dittmann, Michael G. Harvey.
• Taxonomic challenges posed by discordant evolutionary scenarios supported by molecular and morphological data in the Amazonian Synallaxis rutilans group (Aves: Furnariidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195 (2022), Renata Stopiglia, Waleska Barbosa, Mateus Ferreira, Marcus A. Raposo, Alain Dubois, Michael G. Harvey, Guy M. Kirwan, Giovanna Forcato, Flavio A. Bockmann, Camila C. Ribas.
• AVONET: morphological, ecological, and geographical data for all birds Ecology Letters 25 (2022), Joseph A. Tobias, Catherine Sheard, Alex Pigot, Adam Devenish, Jingyi Yang, Ferran Sayol, Montague Neate-Clegg, Nico Alioravainen, Thomas Weeks, Robert Barber, Patrick Walkden, Hannah MacGregor, Samuel Jones, Claire Vincent, Anna Phillips, Nicola Marples, Flavia Montaño-Centellas, Victor Leandro-Silva, Santiago Claramunt, Bianca Darski, Benjamin Freeman, Tom Bregman, Christopher Cooney, Emma Hughes, Elliot Capp, Zoë Varley, Nicholas Friedman, Heiko Korntheuer, Andrea Corrales-Vargas, Christopher Trisos, Brian Weeks, Dagmar Hanz, Till Töpfer, Gustavo Bravo, Vladimír Remeš, Larissa Nowak, Lincoln Carneiro, Beata Matysioková, Daniel Baldassarre, Alejandra Martínez-Salinas, Jared Wolfe, Philip Chapman, Benjamin Daly, Marjorie Sorensen, Alexander Neu, Michael Ford, Rebekah Mayhew, Luis Fabio Silveira, David Kelly, Nathanial Annorbah, Henry Pollock, Ada Grabowska-Zhang, Jay McEntee, Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Camila Meneses, Marcia Muñoz, Luke Powell, Gabriel Jamie, Thomas Matthews, Oscar Johnson, Guilherme Brito, Kristof Zyskowksi, Ross Crates, Michael G. Harvey, Maura J. Zevallos, Peter Hosner, Tom Bradfer-Lawrence, James Maley, F G. Stiles, Hevana Lima, Kaiya Provost, Moses Chibesa, Mmatjie Mashao, Jeffrey Howard, Edson Mlamba, Marcus Chua, Bicheng Li, M I. Gómez, Natalia García, Martin Päckert, Jérôme Fuchs, Jarome Ali, Elizabeth Derryberry, Monica Carlson, Rolly Urriza, Kristen Brzeski, Dewi Prawiradilaga, Matt Rayner, Eliot Miller, Rauri Bowie, René-Marie Lafontaine, R P. Scofield, Yingqiang Lou, Lankani Somarathna, Denis Lepage, Marshall Iliff, Eike Neuschulz, Mathias Templin, D M. Dehling, Jacob Cooper, Olivier Pauwels, Kangkuso Analuddin, Jon Fjeldså, Nathalie Seddon, Paul Sweet, Fabrice DeClerck, Luciano Naka, Jeffrey Brawn, Alexandre Aleixo, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Carsten Rahbek, Susanne Fritz, Gavin Thomas, Matthias Schleuning.
• The dynamics of introgression across an avian radiation Evolution Letters 5 (2021), Sonal Singhal, Graham E. Derryberry, Gustavo A. Bravo, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Robb T. Brumfield, Michael G. Harvey.
• Genomic evidence for rare hybridization and large demographic changes in the evolutionary histories of four North American dove species Animals 11 (2021), Flor Hernández, Joshua I. Brown, Marissa Kaminski, Michael G. Harvey, Phil Lavretsky.
• Avifaunal surveys in the central Peruvian Amazon clarify range limits and highlight links between avian and habitat diversity Wilson Journal of Ornithology 132 (2021), Andre E. Moncrieff, Oscar Johnson, Christian Felix, Anna Hiller, Eamon Corbett, Matthew Brady, Glenn Seeholzer, Emil Bautista, Daniel F. Lane, Michael G. Harvey.
• The demography of extinction in eastern North American birds Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 1944 (2021), Brian T. Smith, Marcelo Gehara, Michael G. Harvey.
• A revised classification of the Xolmiini (Aves: Tyrannidae: Fluvicolinae), including a new genus for Muscisaxicola fluviatilis Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 133 (2020), R T. Chesser, Michael G. Harvey, Robb T. Brumfield, Elizabeth P. Derryberry.
• Investigating the utility of traditional and genomic multi-locus datasets to resolve relationships in Lipaugus and Tijuca (Cotingidae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 147 106779 (2020), Amy E. Settlecowski, Andrés M. Cuervo, Jose G. Tello, Michael G. Harvey, Robb T. Brumfield, Elizabeth P. Derryberry.
• Opening the door to greater phylogeographic inference in Southeast Asia: Comparative study of five co-distributed rainforest bird species using target capture and historical DNA Ecology and Evolution 10 (2020), HC Lim, Subir Shakya, Michael G. Harvey, Robert G. Moyle, Rob C. Fleischer, Michael J. Braun, Frederick H. Sheldon.
• The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot Science 370 (2020), Michael G. Harvey, Gustavo A. Bravo, Santiago Claramunt, Andrés M. Cuervo, Graham E. Derryberry, Jacqueline Battilana, Glenn F. Seeholzer, Jessica Shearer McKay, Brian C. O'Meara, Brant C. Faircloth, Scott V. Edwards, Jorge Pérez-Emán, Robert G. Moyle, Frederick H. Sheldon, Alexandre Aleixo, Brian T. Smith, R T. Chesser, Luís Fabio Silveira, Joel Cracraft, Robb T. Brumfield, Elizabeth P. Derryberry.
• Avifaunal surveys along the lower Huallaga River, Region of Loreto, Peru: new distributional records, collection of topotypes, and taxonomic implications Wilson Journal of Ornithology 131 (2019), Andre E. Moncrieff, Oscar Johnson, Daniel F. Lane, José Álvarez-Alonso, Balta, Karen Eckhardt, Jessica Armenta, Thomas Valqui, Flor Hernández Camacho, Mayorí Soto Huaira, Cristian Mur, Michael G. Harvey, Karen Verde-Guerra, Sheila Figueroa Ramirez.
• Beyond Reproductive Isolation: Demographic controls on the speciation process Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 50 (2019), Michael G. Harvey, Sonal Singhal, Daniel L. Rabosky.
• Earth history and the passerine superradiation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (2019), Carl H. Oliveros, Daniel J. Field, Daniel T. Ksepka, F K. Barker, Alexandre Aleixo, Michael J. Andersen, Per Alström, Brett W. Benz, Edward L. Braun, Michael Braun, Gustavo A. Bravo, Robb T. Brumfield, R T. Chesser, Santiago Claramunt, Michael G. Harvey, Peter A. Hosner, Leo Joseph, Rebecca Kimball, Andrew L. Mack, Colin M. Miskelly, A T. Peterson, Mark B. Robbins, Frederick H. Sheldon, Luís Fábio Silveira, Brian T. Smith, Noor D. White, Robert G. Moyle, Brant C. Faircloth.
• Evolutionary dynamics of hybridization and introgression following the recent colonization of Glossy Ibis (Aves: Plegadis falcinellus) into the New World Molecular Ecology 28 (2019), Jessica A. Oswald, Michael G. Harvey, Rosalind C. Remsen, Donna L. Dittmann, Steven W. Cardiff, Robb T. Brumfield.
• Continuous traits and speciation rates: Alternatives to state-dependent diversification models Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2018), Michael G. Harvey, Daniel L. Rabosky.

• Exploration and discovery in the Amazon during fifteen years of research on tropical bird speciation (2022), Volume El Paso, TX, Michael G. Harvey.
• Field work for general and focused bird collections, collaborative networks, and the role of small museums (2022), Volume Albuquerque, NM, Michael G. Harvey.
• Genetic identification of a mystery hummingbird from the Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas, USA (2022), Volume Anaheim, CA, Andrea Sarinana, Oscar Johnson, Armando Varela-Ramirez, Matthew L. Brady, Janiece Ward, Michael G. Harvey.
• Hybridization of dark-eyed and yellow-eyed juncos​ (2022), Volume El Paso, TX, Connor O'Brien, Matthew L. Brady, Oscar Johnson, Andrea Sarinana, Pablo Solis, Michael G. Harvey, Michael Buontempo.
• Standing species richness shapes the tempo and mode of avian speciation across the Neotropics (2022), Volume Cleveland, OH, Michael G. Harvey.
• Primer optimization and population genetics in Bushtits (Psaltriparus minimus) (2021), Ximena Larrieu, Michael G. Harvey.
• Speciation dynamics and the origins of Neotropical bird diversity (2021), Volume Las Cruces, NM, Michael G. Harvey.
• Harvey Lab Overview (2021), Volume Ithaca, NY, Michael G. Harvey.
• Population genetic structure in forty-three Madrean “sky island” bird species, with a focus on Bushtits (Psaltriparus minimus) (2021), Volume El Paso, TX, Bonnie Raechal Beres, Michael G. Harvey.
• Connecting micro- and macroevolution using comparative genomics (2019), Volume Arequipa, Peru , Michael G. Harvey.

• Faculty Mentor Award
• Capturing ongoing diversification: A complete phylogeny of an avian radiation using dense sampling of tips
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology: The morphological drivers and effects of long-distance bird migration
• Comparative population genetics in mountain birds of Central Asia
• The impact of a recent river avulsion on avian distributions along the Ucayali River in Peru