Mark earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in psychology at Central Washington University. His undergraduate and masters research experience was supervised by Roger Fouts, and was primarily focused on how sign language trained chimpanzees use pointing when interacting with humans. He then completed his PhD at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville under the supervision of Gordon Burghardt. His dissertation research focused on the development of foraging behavior and chemoreception in neonatal garter snakes. Following this Mark completed a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Texas at Austin where, under the supervision of Michael Domjan, he conducted research on Pavlovian conditioning of sexual behavior in Japanese quail. He did another postdoc focusing on the role of androgens on memory and functional brain activity in humans at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Mark is currently a professor of psychology at Southern Oregon University where he teaches courses in behavioral neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and comparative psychology.
Mark is co-editor (with Karen Hollis and Mauricio Papini) of
Evolution of Learning and Memory Mechanisms (Cambridge, 2022) and
Pointing: Culture, Development, and Evolution (with Kim Bard and David Leavens, Cambridge, 2026). He is co-author (with Daniel Corts and Stephen Smith) of an introductory psychology textbook published in Canada called
Introduction to Psychological Science: Modeling Scientific Literacy. Mark serves on the editorial boards for Journal of Comparative Psychology and Animal Behavior and Cognition. Mark has served as president of Division 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience of Comparative Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. Outside of work, Mark has a wonderful family and is a gym rat who drinks too much coffee and reads a lot of fiction.
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