Elsie H. Shogren

Elsie H. Shogren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at Wake Forest University. She earned her B.S. from Cornell University, Ph.D. from Kansas State University, and completed an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Rochester.

Her research centers on understanding how environmental, behavioral, and genetic variation influences evolution and speciation in birds, with a focus on drivers of divergence and consequences of hybridization in closely related taxa. Using field observations, experiments, and genomic analyses, her research group tests hypotheses at multiple biological levels to determine factors defining species boundaries and evolutionary trajectories.