Dr. Colin Wright

CV

Current

Manhattan Institute (January 2023 – present)
·  Fellow

Reality’s Last Stand (January 2020 – present)
·  Founding Editor

Previous

Quillette Magazine (May 2020 – May 2022)
·  Managing Editor

Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (August 2021 – May 2022)
·  Senior Editor

The Pennsylvania State University (July 1, 2018 – April 2020) – State College, PA
·  Eberly Research Postdoctoral Fellow

Other Affiliations

The Killarney Group (August 2023 – present)
·  Fellow

Atheists for Liberty (January 2021 – present)
·  Advisor

The Epoch Times (January 2024 – present)
·  Commentator

UC Santa Barbara (June 15, 2018) – Santa Barbara, CA
·  Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology and Marine Biology (THESIS)

UC Davis (June 14, 2012) – Davis, CA
·  B.S. in Evolution, Ecology and Biodiversity

Popular Press

2024

1. Wright, C. Does Imane Khelif Belong in the Women’s Ring? The Wall Street Journal, August

2. Wright, C. Radical Gender Activists Only. City Journal, June

3. Wright, C. Eager to ‘Affirm,’ Yet Unwilling to Debate. Quillette, May

4. Wright, C. ‘Genetic Sex’ Is a Misnomer. City Journal, February

2023

1. Wright, C. Dis-empaneled. City Journal, October

2. Wright, C. Sex On Trial. City Journal, September

3. Wright, C. Testimony, or Evidence? City Journal, August

4. Wright, C. Why the AAP Gender-Care Review Must Be Handled with Caution. New York Post, August

5. Wright, C. Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal. City Journal, June

6. Sapir, L., and Wright, C. Medical Journal’s False Consensus on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’. The Wall Street Journal, June (free version)

7. Wright, C. Don’t Take Pride in Promoting Pseudoscience. Queer Majority, June

8. Wright, C., and Samuel Stagg. Gender Ideology’s Shaky Twin Pillars. City Journal, May

9. Wright, C. A Biologist Explains Why Sex Is Binary. The Wall Street Journal, April (free version)

10. Wright, C. Understanding the Sex Binary. City Journal, March

11. Wright, C. Are There More Than Two Sexes? City Journal, March

12. Sapir, L., and Wright, C. How Not to Regulate Pediatric Gender Medicine. City Journal, January

2022

1. Wright, C. How Trans Activist Trolls Got Me Deplatformed By PayPal and Etsy. New York Post, October

2. Wright, C. Every Tomboy Is Tagged ‘Transgender’. The Wall Street Journal, September (free version)

3. Wright, C. I Got Thrown Off Etsy and PayPal for Expressing My Belief in Biological Reality. Quillette, June

4. Wright, C. You Can’t Be the Side of ‘Women’s Rights’ If You Don’t Know What a Woman Is. Newsweek, May

5. Wright, C. Elon Musk Tweeted My Cartoon. The Wall Street Journal, May (free version)

6. Wright, C. When Asked ‘What Are Your Pronouns,’ Don’t Answer. The Wall Street Journal, February (free version)

2020

1. Wright, C. On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission. Quillette, December

2. Wright, C. Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise. Quillette, July (free version)

3. Wright, C. JK Rowling Is Right—Sex Is Real and It Is Not a ‘Spectrum’. Quillette, June

4. Wright, C. and Hilton, E.N. There’s No Question of Our Biological Sex. The Australian, February

5. Wright, C. and Hilton, E.N. The Dangerous Denial of Sex. The Wall Street Journal, February (free version)

2019

1. Hilton, E.N., Wright, C., Heying, H.E. Times Letters: Lib Dems’ Policy on Gender Self-Identity. The Times of London, December

2. Malone, W.J., Wright, C., Robertson, J.D. No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body.’ Quillette, September

2018

1. Wright, C. The New Evolution Deniers. Quillette, November

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

2023

1. Hilton, E.N. and Wright, C. “Two Sexes.” In Sex and Gender, pp. 16-34. Routledge (2023).

2021

1. Cassidy, S.T., Chapa, J., Tran, T., Dolezal, N., Gerena, C., Johnson, G., Leyva, A., Stein, S., Wright, C., and Keiser, C.N. Disease defences across levels of biological organization: individual and social immunity in acorn ants. Animal Behaviour 179 (2021): 73-81.

2. Hilton, E., Thompson, P., Wright, C., and Curtis, D. The reality of sex. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971-) (2021): 1-1

2020

1. Wright, C., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Luscuskie, L.P., Montgomery, G.A., Geary, S., Pruitt, J.N., Pinter-Wollman, N., and Keiser, C.N. Spatial proximity and prey vibratory cues influence collective hunting in social spiders. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution 66, no. 1-2 (2020): 26-31

2. McEwen, B.L., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Fisher, D.N., Wright, C., Chism, G.T., Pinter-Wollman, N., Pruitt, J.N. Predictors of colony extinction vary by habitat type in social spiders. Behavioral Ecology Sociobiology 74(2)

2019

1. Wright, C., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Luscuskie, L.P., Montgomery, G.A., Geary, S., Pruitt, J.N., Pinter-Wollman, N., and Keiser, C.N. Spatial proximity and prey vibratory cues influence collective hunting in social spiders. Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution 66(1-2), p.26-31

2. Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Wright, C., and Pruitt, J.N. Repeatability of between-group differences in collective foraging is shaped by group composition in social spiders. Journal of Arachnology 47(2), p.276-279

3. Wright, C., McEwen, B., Fisher, D.N., Tibbetts, E.A., and Pruitt, J.N. 2019. Egg discrimination is mediated by individual differences in olfactory responsiveness and boldness. Behavioral Ecology 30(5), p.1306-1313

4. Wright, C., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Tibbetts E.A., and Pruitt, J.N. Individual variation in queen morphology and behavior predict colony success in the wild. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73(122)

5. Wright, C., Fisher, D.N., Nerone, W.V., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Tibbetts, E.A., and Pruitt, J.N. 2019. Foundress number, but not queen size or boldness, predicts colony life-history in wild paper wasps. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 128(1), p.20-29

6. Wright, C., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Montgomery, G.A., Luscuskie, L.P., Pinter-Wollman, N., and Pruitt, J.N. 2019. Better safe than sorry: spider societies mitigate risk by prioritizing caution. Behavioral Ecology 30(5), p.1234-1241

7. Wright C., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Doering, G.N., Pretorius, J., Muenier, J. and Pruitt, J.N. 2019 Collective personalities: present knowledge and new frontiers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73(3), p.31.

8. Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Daniel, K.A., Wong, J.B., Wright, C., Doering, G.N., Costa-Pereira, R. and Pruitt, J.N., 2019. Habitat structure changes the relationships between predator behavior, prey behavior, and prey survival rates. Oecologia, pp.1-12.

2018

1. Kamath, A., Primavera, S.D., Wright, C., Doering, G.N., Sheehy, K.A., Pinter-Wollman, N. and Pruitt, J.N., 2018. Collective behavior and colony persistence of social spiders depends on their physical environment. Behavioral Ecology 30(1), pp.39-47.

2. Keiser, C.N., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Wright, C., Chism, G.T. and Pruitt, J.N., 2018. Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders. Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences, p.236.

3. Miller, S.E., Bluher, S.E., Bell, E., Cini, A., Silva, R.C.D., de Souza, A.R., Gandia, K.M., Jandt, J., Loope, K., Prato, A. and Pruitt, J.N…, 2018. WASP nest: a worldwide assessment of social Polistine nesting behavior. Ecology, 99(10), pp.2405-2405.

4. Doering, G.N., Kamath, A., Wright, C. and Pruitt, J.N., 2018. Evidence for contrasting size-frequency distributions of workers patrolling vegetation vs. the ground in the polymorphic African ant Anoplolepis custodiens. Insectes Sociaux, 65(4), pp.663-668.

2017

1. Lichtenstein, J.L., Wright, C., McEwen, B., Pinter-Wollman, N. and Pruitt, J.N., 2017. The multidimensional behavioural hypervolumes of two interacting species predict their space use and survival. Animal Behaviour, 132, pp.129-136.

2. Wright, C., Lichtenstein, J.L.L., Montgomery, G.A., Luscuskie, L.P., Pinter-Wollman, N. and Pruitt, J.N., 2017. Exposure to predators reduces collective foraging aggressiveness and eliminates its relationship with colony personality composition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(8), p.126.

3. Wright, C., Hyland, T.D., Izzo, A.S., McDermott, D.R., Tibbetts, E.A. and Pruitt, J.N., 2017. Polistes metricus queens exhibit personality variation and behavioral syndromes. Current Zoology, 64(1), pp.45-52.

4. Wright, C., Skinker, V.E., Izzo, A.S., Tibbetts, E.A. and Pruitt, J.N., 2017. Queen personality type predicts nest-guarding behaviour, colony size and the subsequent collective aggressiveness of the colony. Animal Behaviour, 124, pp.7-13.

5. Lichtenstein, J.L., Wright, C., Luscuskie, L.P., Montgomery, G.A., Pinter-Wollman, N. and Pruitt, J.N., 2017. Participation in cooperative prey capture and the benefits gained from it are associated with individual personality. Current Zoology, 63(5), pp.561-567.

2016

1. Wright, C., Keiser, C.N. and Pruitt, J.N., 2016. Colony personality composition alters colony-level plasticity and magnitude of defensive behaviour in a social spider. Animal Behaviour, 115, pp.175-183.

2. Keiser, C.N., Wright, C. and Pruitt, J.N., 2016. Increased bacterial load can reduce or negate the effects of keystone individuals on group collective behaviour. Animal Behaviour, 114, pp.211-218.

2015

1. Keiser, C.N.*, Wright, C.* and Pruitt, J.N., 2015. Warring arthropod societies: social spider colonies can delay annihilation by predatory ants via reduced apparency and increased group size. Behavioural Processes, 119, pp.14-21.

2. Modlmeier, A.P., Keiser, C.N., Wright, C., Lichtenstein, J.L. and Pruitt, J.N., 2015. Integrating animal personality into insect population and community ecology. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 9, pp.77-85.

3. Keiser, C.N., Wright, C., Singh, N., DeShane, J.A., Modlmeier, A.P. and Pruitt, J.N., 2015. Cross-fostering by foreign conspecific queens and slave-making workers influences individual-and colony-level personality. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 69(3), pp.395-405.

2014 & Earlier

1. Wright, C. (2012). The Impact of Traditional and Folk Medicine on Biodiversity. The Science in Society Review, UC Davis, Fall: 25-27.

 *Signifies equal work by authors