Alexandra Horowitz teaches psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University. She earned her PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of California at San Diego, and has studied the cognition of humans, rhinoceros, bonobos, and dogs. For seventeen years she shared her home with an unwitting research subject, Pumpernickel, a wonderful mixed breed. Before her scientific career, Horowitz worked as a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and served on the staff of The New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her husband, infant son, and Finnegan, a dog of indeterminate parentage and determinate character.

photo by Vegar Abelsnes

Links

Academic page (Barnard College)

Dog Cognition laboratory

Psychology Today blog

Personal web site

Recent press

Science magazine

Smithsonian

Time magazine

ABC's "Nature's Edge" (video features Finnegan)