Alisa Winkler, Ph.D.

Graduate School

University of Texas-Austin , Geology

Graduate School

Southern Methodist University (1990), Geology

• Functional morphology (mammals)
• Mammalian paleontology
• Medical education

Featured Publications

Embryology, Anatomy, and Radiology of Cervical Cysts and Cleft Lip/Palate: A Team-Based Learning Module for Medical Students.

Prange-Kiel J, Champine JG, Winkler AJ, Twickler DM, MedEdPORTAL 2016 Oct 12 10484

Forelimb anatomy of the leporid Serengetilagus from Laetoli, Tanzania: functional and taxonomic implications.

Winkler, A., D. Winkler, and T. Harrison. Hist. Biol. 2016 (1-2) 28 252-263

Fossil lagomorphs from the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan.

Winkler, A. J., L. J. Flynn, and Y. Tomida. Palaeontologia Electronica 2011 14 3 1-16

Chapter 18: Lagomorpha

A. J. Winkler, and D. M. Avery Cenozoic Mammals of Africa (L. Werdelin and W. J. Sanders, eds.), University of California Press 2010 263-305

Chapter 17: Rodentia.

Winkler, A. J., C. Denys, and D. M. Avery L. Werdelin and W. J. Sanders, eds.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley 2010 263-305

Bone strain following application of a rigid bone plate: an in vitro study in human mandibles.

Throckmorton GS, Ellis E, Winkler AJ, Dechow PC J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 1992 Oct 50 10 1066-73; discussion 1073-4

 Featured Books

Advances in integrative taxonomy and evolution of African murid rodents: how morphological trees hide the molecular forest.. In Evolution of the Rodents: Advances in Phylogeny, Functional Morphology and Development

C. Denys and A. Winkler (2015). Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press

• 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)

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016)
• American Association of Anatomists (2016)
• American Society of Mammalogists
• Research Professor II, Roy M. Huffington Dept. of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology