Judith Lee Bronstein is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist who researches mutualisms, or positive species interactions.

[1] She has edited multiple books and volumes, including Mutualism, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.

[2] Bronstein received a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1979 as an independent major focused on the use of ecological theory in environmental policymaking.

Her doctoral dissertation research examined coevolution and constraints in a Neotropical fig-pollinator wasp mutualism.

[3] Bronstein received additional training as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow in Evolutionary Genetics at Centre Louis Emberger in Montpellier, France, in 1987.