Brian D. Farrell

Brian Dorsey Farrell is a professor of biology and curator in entomology at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. , 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.

Career Farrell accepted a position at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he had his first child. In 1995, he returned to the East Coast to accept a position at Harvard University 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.