Brian Hare
Birth Name:
Brian Hare
Profession
Producer
Fast Facts
- Was named one of the top 37 U․S․ scientists under 36 by Smithsonian magazine in 2007
- Won the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the most prestigious award for young scientists in Germany, in 2004
- Graduated from Emory University with a degree in psychology and anthropology in 1998 and earned his Ph․D․ in biological anthropology from Harvard University in 2004
- Quote: "I remember as a kid, people would say, 'You love animals so much that you should be a veterinarian․' I thought, 'I'm not interested in that part of their insides․' I wanted to know how they think and why they behave the way they behave․"
- Associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, where he founded the Duke Canine Cognition Center
- Best known as the co-founder of Dognition․com who hosted the miniseries "Is Your Dog a Genius?"
- Co-wrote the book "The Genius of Dogs" with Vanessa Woods in 2013