[19] He was named an Aleš Hrdlička Scholar in 1975-1976 by the Smithsonian Institution, later becoming a communications coordinator for the Universities Space Research Association in Boulder, Colorado.

[21] As a dental anthropologist, Corruccini is most noted for his work on malocclusion,[22][23][24][25][26] though his research is not limited to any particular aspect of human or non-human primate dentition or biology.

[19] However, Corruccini's research into malocclusion led him to conduct broad and comprehensive studies among a diverse number of subjects, including an isolate population of European-Americans in rural Kentucky,[34] the Pima Tribe,[35] natives of Peru,[28][36] hominoids,[37] and modern Chinese.

In 1982, Corruccini and Beecher published the results of a study on squirrel monkeys that revealed that diet may play a significant role in occlusal health.

Handler joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in 1962, first as an instructor, and later as a tenured professor after he earned his PhD in anthropology from Brandeis University in 1965.