Further areas of expertise include arctic anthropology, climate change, simulation models, and human ecology and demography.
He is president of the Buffalo Center Chapter of United University Professions as well as being a member of the statewide Executive Board.
Zubrow earned his BA from Harvard College and both an MA and a PhD from the University of Arizona.
Zubrow, is currently a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Buffalo.
He is also a research scientist with the National Center for Geographic Information Analysis laboratory at the same institution.