Joshua S. Hoskinson, M.S., M.A. (he/him/his) currently serves as Faculty, Life Sciences at Mohave College and is a Ph.D. student at the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. His scientific and technical expertise is focused on the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and science education. He has worked in laboratories studying the ecosystem ecology of the Amazon rainforest, the environmental pedology of the American Southwest, conservation genetics to estimate the abundance and distribution of coyotes (Canis latrans) on the White Mountain Apache Reservation of Arizona, and wildlife ecology related to the reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) in the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in the White Mountains of Arizona, which focused on the effect of Mexican gray wolves on the distribution of elk (Cervus elaphus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemonius), coyotes, and gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus).
As for science education, he has focused on applying his extensive background in ecology and evolutionary biology, as well as incorporating principles of social psychology and educational psychology, to understand student learning with regards to controversial science topics such as evolutionary biology, climate change, and vaccines in public health. Specifically, his most recent work has focused on addressing if the teaching of the evolution of the hierarchy of life, and the evolution of biological complexity more broadly, can address concerns of macroevolution acceptance in biology classrooms.