Susan Kephart earned her Ph.D. at Indiana University.

Mailing Address
Department of Biology
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, OR 97301

Contact Information
Phone: (503)-370-6481
Fax: (503)-375-5425
Email:skephart@willamette.edu
Office:Olin 117

Research Interests

Professor Kephart's focal areas of research include evolutionary biology and systematics of plants and plant-animal interactions (i.e., pollination, herbivory) in grassland meadows or forests, from coastal prairies to montane "sky islands." Her research uses a variety of tools, from morphological study to experimental field manipulations to DNA fingerprinting. She currently has three active areas of study: 1) rare and common varieties of a plant known as Douglas' catchfly (Silene douglasii), 2) interactions of milkweeds and their associate pollinators and herbivores, including monarch butterflies, and 3) hybridization in camas lilies (Camassia) and milkweeds (Asclepias).