Brian Dorsey Farrell is a professor of biology and curator in entomology at

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. , Farrell is also Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Early life and education

Farrell was one of eight children born to a United States born mother and Lebanese-descendent father. He earned his BA in zoology and botany from the

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and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the

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Career

Farrell accepted a position at the

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, where he had his first child. In 1995, he returned to the East Coast to accept a position at

as a Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In 2014, Farrell was named Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He also received a grant to study insect fossils in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. In 2018, he was named Faculty Dean of Leverett House.

Personal life

Farrell and his wife Irina Ferreras have two children, who also enrolled in Harvard.

References

External links

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at the Harvard

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