Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Associate Curator, Museum of Natural History
University of Colorado 
Ph.D., Duke University ------------|------------ Curriculum Vitae: PDF
Research interests: Biological Anthropology, Primate Ecology, and Conservation of Primates of Vietnam; Primate Evolution with a focus on adaptations and phylogeny of Eocene primates.
Selected Publications:
- Quyet, L.K., Covert, H.H. 2010. Another population of the Tonkin snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus) discovered in Ha Giang Province, Vietnam. Vietnamese Journal of Primatology (2010) 4, 19-25
- Covert, H.H., Quyet, L.K., and Wright, B.W. 2008. On The Brink of Extinction: Conservation and Ecology of the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus avunculus). J.G. Fleagle and C.C. Gilbert, eds. Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. Springer Science and Business Media: New York, pp.409-27.
- Wright, B.W., Ulibarri, L., O’Brien, J.A., Sadler, B., Prodhan, R., Covert, H.H., and Nadler, T. 2008. It’s tough out there: variation in the toughness of ingested leaves and feeding behavior among four Colobinae in Vietnam. Int. J. Primatol. 29:1455-1466.
- Wright, K.A., Stevens, N.J., Covert, H.H., and Nadler, T. 2008. Comparisons of Suspensory Behaviors Among Pygathrix cinerea, P. nemaeus, and Nomascus leucogenys in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. Int. J. Primatol. 29:1467-1480.
- Workman, C., Covert, H.H. 2005. Learning the ropes: The ontogeny of locomotion in red-shanked douc (Pygathrix nemaeus), Delacour's (Trachypithecus delacouri), and Hatinh langurs (Trachypithecus hatinhensis) I. positional behavior. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 128:371-80
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