SUE CARTER, PHD

C. Sue Carter, PhD, is Distinguished University Scientist, Rudy Professor Emerita of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington and from 2014-2019 was Director of the Kinsey Institute.  She is Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago and formerly held the position of Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and prior to that was Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology, Ethology and Evolution at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Dr. Carter is a past president of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society and holds fellow status in that Society and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She has a career long history of federal research funding include an NIMH Research Scientist Award.  Dr. Carter is the scientist who discovered the relationship between social behavior and oxytocin.  Her current work examines the developmental consequences of oxytocin and the role of oxytocin pathways in human sociality.

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