Education
Jim Kenagy graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in 1963, and he graduated with a degree in Zoology in 1967 at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Then he achieved his Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1972. He held postdocs in Germany (at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology), at University of California, Los Angeles, and at University of California San Diego.
In 1976, he joined the Department of Zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle, which became the Department of Biology in 2002.
In 1995, he also became Curator of Mammals at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
Career
He is known for his research in ecophysiology and behavior of small mammals. As a postdoc at Max Planck, Kenagy investigated daily rhythms and seasonal reproductive patterns in desert rodents. Kenagy has conducted research in Australia, South America, and the University of California-Berkeley"s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
His research has encompassed ecophysiology and behavior, and more recently has included population biology, biogeography, and evolution of mammals.
His occupation revolves around the continual research of biogeography and evolution of mammalian populations, and training graduate students at the University of Washington and associate with the Burke Museum. As the curator of the Burke Museum in Seattle, Washington, Kenagy oversees the research of graduate students including current projects in: Biogeography of Pacific Northwest Mammals Tracking the History of Northwest Mouse Populations with their Genetic Signatures Local versus
Widespread Population Structure of Jumping Mice on the Olympic Peninsula Desert Ground Squirrel Adaptation from Mexico to Oregon Tracking a Rare Marsupial in Chile"s Southern Rain Forest Mammals of Sichuan Province, China.
