Alisa Winkler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Endowed Title Distinguished Teaching Professor
School Medical School
Department Surgery
Education
- Graduate School
- University of Texas-Austin , Geology
- Graduate School
- Southern Methodist University (1990), Geology
Research Interest
- Functional morphology (mammals)
- Mammalian paleontology
- Medical education
Publications
- The evolution of hominoid locomotor versatility: Evidence from Moroto, a 21 Ma site in Uganda
- MacLatchy LM, Cote SM, Deino AL, Kityo RM, Mugume AA, Rossie JB, Sanders WJ, Cosman MN, Driese SG, Fox DL, Freeman AJ, Jansma RJ, Jenkins KE, Kinyanjui RN, Lukens WE, McNulty KP, Novello A, Peppe DJ, Strömberg CA, Uno KT, Winkler AJ, Kingston JD Science 2023 Apr 380
- Lagomorpha as a Model Morphological System
- Kraatz B, Belabbas R, Fostowicz-Frelik Ł, Ge DY, Kuznetsov AN, Lang MM, López-Torres S, Mohammadi Z, Racicot RA, Ravosa MJ, Sharp AC, Sherratt E, Silcox MT, Słowiak J, Winkler AJ, Ruf I Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2021 Jul 9
- Rodents and other terrestrial small mammals from Kanapoi, north-western Kenya
- Manthi FK, Winkler AJ Journal of Human Evolution 2020 Mar 140
- Evidence for rapid faunal change in the early Miocene of East Africa based on revised biostratigraphic and radiometric dating of Bukwa, Uganda
- Cote S, Kingston J, Deino A, Winkler A, Kityo R, MacLatchy L Journal of Human Evolution 2018 Mar 116 95-107
- Forelimb anatomy of Serengetilaguspraecapensis (Mammalia: Lagomorpha): a Pliocene leporid from Laetoli, Tanzania
- Winkler AJ, Winkler DA, Harrison T Historical Biology 2016 Feb 28 252-263
- Small vertebrates from Khasm El-Raqaba, late Middle Miocene, Eastern Desert, Egypt
- Gunnell GF, Winkler AJ, Miller ER, Head JJ, El-Barkooky AN, Gawad MA, Sanders WJ, Gingerich PD Historical Biology 2016 Feb 28 159-171
- Contributions to vertebrate palaeontology in honour of Yukimitsu Tomida
- Jacobs LL, Winkler AJ, Flynn LJ, Kimura Y, Kobayashi Y, Wang X, Qiu Z, Jin C, Zhang Y, Taylor LH, Kohno N Historical Biology 2016 Feb 28 1-7
- Advances in integrative taxonomy and evolution of african murid rodents: How morphological trees hide the molecular forest
- Denys C, Winkler A 2015 Jan 186-220
- The Leporid Datum: A late Miocene biotic marker
- Flynn LJ, Winkler AJ, Erbaeva M, Alexeeva N, Anders U, Angelone C, Čermák S, Fladerer FA, Kraatz B, Ruedas LA, Ruf I, Tomida Y, Veitschegger K, Zhang Z Mammal Review 2014 Oct 44 164-176
- The Lower Third Premolar of Serengetilagus praecapensis (Mammalia: Lagomorpha: Leporidae) from Laetoli, Tanzania
- Winkler AJ, Tomida Y 2011 55-66
Honors & Awards
- Member, UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers (SWAT)
(2018) - University of Texas, Regent's Outstanding Teaching Award
(2017) - Pre-Clinical Teaching Award, MSI Class
(2016) - Outstanding Educator Award, Health Care Sciences, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions
(2014) - Katherine Howe Muntz Award for Teaching in Anatomy, MSI Class
(2010) - Pre-Clinical Teaching Award, MSI Class
(2009-2014) - Pre-Clinical Teaching Award, MSI Class
(2007)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016)
- American Association of Anatomists (2016)
- American Society of Mammalogists
- Research Professor, Roy M. Huffington Dept. of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University
- Society of Vertebrate Paleontology