This interview is with Arthur Shapiro, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Evolution and Ecology. He was appointed in 1971 and retired in 2023.

Art’s research is focused on population ecology of butterflies.  He has the longest running butterfly monitoring program in North America  which has been monitoring at 10 diverse sites in California for over 50 years.  He also has a long running study of butterfly species distributions in South America.

Art has taught General Zoology, General Biology, Chemical Ecology, Philosophy of the Biological Sciences, Animal Evolution, Introduction to Ecology*, Ecology of Tropical Latitudes*, Principles of Systematics*, Evolution of Ecological Systems*, Biogeography*

He is interviewed by his former student and colleague, Matt Forister, Professor of Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.