Courses:
Organisms (BIO 114), Human Anatomy (BIO 290),
General Entomology (BIO 310), Evolution, Human Nature and Morality (HON
200).
Research
Interests: Insect Systematics, Human Behavior, and Stress
Reduction.
My research is divided in three areas:
insect systematics, specifically the comparative reproductive
morphology and life history of aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera;
the evolution of human social behavior applied to perennial problems
such as conflict and intolerance; and stress reduction in collaboration
with professors from the psychology department. Our current project is
testing a heart rate variability biofeedback method for reducing
anxiety in JMU students.
Selected
Publications:
Keffer, S. L. 2004. Morphology and
evolution of waterscorpion male genitalia (Heteroptera: Nepidae).
Systematic Entomology 29:142-172.
Keffer, S. L. 1996. Systematics of the
New World waterscorpion genus Curicta
Stål (Heteroptera: Nepidae). J. New York Entomol. Soc.
104(3):117-215.
Keffer, S. L., S. B. King, and S. Kraft. 1991.
Process metaphysics, minimalism, and public policy. Environmental
Ethics 13: 23-47.
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