Trudy Turner is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
She is known for her work on vervet monkeys, ethics in research, and women in biological anthropology.
[1] In 2019 she was named editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Her early work examined blood proteins[3] and growth stages[4] in vervet monkeys.
[7] In 2014 Turner received the Gabriel Lasker Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Service to the American Association of Physical Anthropology.