Stephen E. Glickman
Stephen E. Glickman (1933-2020) was an American comparative psychologist and scholar of the history of psychology, who contributed over 100 publications relevant to the study of animal behavior, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, reproductive neuroendocrinology and anatomy, and integrative and evolutionary biology. His early research career, spanning roughly 26 years, was dominated by investigation of the neurological substrates of learning and arousal, and by the comparative study of curiosity. In his later research career, spanning roughly 36 years, Glickman was best known for his illuminating work on the sexual differentiation and development of the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) - a species that came to be renowned for the female's highly unusual suite of 'masculinized' traits. Glickman can be credited with unraveling many of this species' mysteries, including by establishing, at the University of California, Berkeley, the only captive hyena colony worldwide and assembling a team of highly specialized collaborators who provided unparalleled research synergy. In honor of his scientific contributions and the creation of this unique intellectual environment, the field station of UC Berkeley was renamed, in 2020, the "Stephen Glickman Field Station for the Study of Behavior, Ecology and Reproduction."
