The 11 Divisions charged with the care of over 12 million specimens and objects housed in the Yale Peabody Museum are overseen by a Board of 20 Curators from the Yale University Faculty.
The Mission Statement of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
The exceptional collections in the care of the Museum’s curatorial staff are at the heart of university teaching, the interdisciplinary studies of researchers from around the world, and museum exhibition that communicates the importance and excitement of studying the earth’s history and diversity.
| Jay J. Ague | Curator of Mineralogy |
| Derek E.G. Briggs | Director, Peabody Museum of Natural History Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology |
| Richard L. Burger | Curator of Anthropology |
| Leo W. Buss | Curator of Invertebrate Zoology |
| Peter Crane | Curator of Paleobotany |
| Curator of Anthropology |
| Michael J. Donoghue | Curator of Botany, The Yale Herbarium |
| Michael R. Dove | Curator of Anthropology |
| Jacques Gauthier | Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology) |
| Leo J. Hickey | Curator of Paleobotany |
| Andrew Hill | Curator of Anthropology |
| Roderick J. McIntosh | Curator of Anthropology |
| Antónia Monteiro | Assistant Curator of Entomology |
| Leonard Munstermann | Curator of Entomology |
| Thomas J. Near | Associate Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Ichthyology) |
| Richard O. Prum | Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Ornithology) |
| Eric J. Sargis | Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology |
| David Skelly | Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology) |
| Karl K. Turekian | Curator of Meteorites and Planetary Science |
| Anne Underhill | Curator of Anthropology |
| Elisabeth S. Vrba | Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Curator of Vertebrate Zoology (Mammalogy) |
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| Adolf Seilacher | Visiting Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology |
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| Michael D. Coe | Curator of Anthropology |
| Harold C. Conklin | Curator of Anthropology |
| Willard D. Hartman | Curator of Invertebrate Zoology |
| Frank Hole | Curator of Anthropology |
| Leopold J. Pospisil | Curator of Anthropology |
