Drew Kaiser Enigk
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1100 S McAllister Ave Tempe, AZ 85281
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Before joining the ASU Foundation, Drew Enigk was the Corporate Partnerships Manager at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, where he co-led the Institutional Giving team. Drew's academic background spans the fields of animal behavior, primatology, and evolutionary anthropology. He lived in Kibale National Park, Uganda for a year and a half while studying wild chimpanzees for his dissertation. His research focused on adolescent male chimpanzees and how they adapt to the adult social world. Drew has also conducted behavioral observations of bonobos, Channel Island foxes, Grévy's zebras, Somali wild asses, and Ozark hellbenders on various research projects in collaboration with the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Saint Louis Zoo, and University of Oregon.
Drew is especially passionate about connecting donors with the causes that they find most inspiring. Drawing from his background in the Natural Sciences, Drew enjoys communicating the groundbreaking research of ASU faculty to philanthropists looking to partner with the university in the search for innovative solutions to the planet's and humanity's most pressing needs. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Drew has lived in the Southwest since 2012. Outside of work, he enjoys building toward fluency in Spanish and volunteering at a sustainable desert food forest project (Desert Abundance) in Superior, Arizona.
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of New Mexico 2021
M.S. Anthropology, University of New Mexico 2015
B.S. Agriculture, The Ohio State University 2012
Drew's dissertation research focused on behavioral strategies of social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult male chimpanzees at Kanyawara, Kibale National Park, Uganda.
Muller, M.N., Sabbi, K.H., Emery Thompson, M., Enigk, D.K., Hagberg, L., Machanda, Z.P., Menante, A., Otali, E., & Wrangham, R.W. (2024). Age-related reproductive effort in male chimpanzees: terminal investment or alternative tactics? Animal Behaviour, 213, 11–21. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.04.002
Fox, S., Muller, M.N., Thompson González, N., Enigk, D.K., Machanda, Z.P., Otali, E., Wrangham, R. & Emery Thompson, M. (2022). Weak, but not strong, ties support coalition formation among wild female chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378, 20210427. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0427
Thompson González, N., Machanda, Z., Otali, E., Muller, M.N., Enigk, D.K., Wrangham, R. & Emery Thompson, M. (2021). Age-related change in adult chimpanzee social network integration. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 9, 448–459. DOI: 10.1093/emph/eoab040
Enigk, D.K., Emery Thompson, M., Machanda, Z.P., Wrangham, R.W., & Muller, M.N. (2021). Female-directed aggression by adolescent male chimpanzees primarily constitutes dominance striving, not sexual coercion. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 176, 66–79. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24296
Muller, M.N., Enigk, D.K., Fox, S.A., Lucore, J., Machanda, Z.P., Wrangham, R.W., & Emery Thompson, M. (2021). Aggression, glucocorticoids, and the chronic costs of status competition for wild male chimpanzees. Hormones and Behavior, 130:104965. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.104965
Rosati, A.G., Hagberg, L., Enigk, D.K., Otali, E., Emery Thompson, M., Muller, M.N., Wrangham, R.W., & Machanda, Z. (2020). Social selectivity in aging wild chimpanzees. Science, 370, 473–476. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaz9129
Muller, M.N., Blurton-Jones, N.G., Colchero, F., Emery Thompson, M., Enigk, D.K., Feldblum, J.T., Hahn, B.H., Langergraber, K.E., Scully, E.J., Vigilant, L., Walker, K.K., Wrangham, R.W., Wroblewski, E.E., & Pusey, A.E. (2020). Sexual dimorphism in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and human age-specific fertility. Journal of Human Evolution, 144:102795. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102795
Enigk, D.K., Emery Thompson, M., Machanda, Z.P., Wrangham, R.W., & Muller, M.N. (2020). Competitive ability determines coalition participation and partner selection during maturation in wild male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, 89. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-020-02872-7
Emery Thompson, M., Fox, S., Berghänel, A., Sabbi, K., Phillips-Garcia, S., Enigk, D.K., Otali, E., Machanda, Z.P., Wrangham, R.W., & Muller, M.N. (2020). Wild chimpanzees exhibit humanlike aging of glucocorticoid regulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 8424–8430. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920593117
Emery Thompson, M., Machanda, Z.P., Scully, E.J., Enigk, D.K., Otali, E., Muller, M.N., Goldberg, T.L., Chapman, C.A., & Wrangham, R.W. (2018). Risk factors for respiratory illness in a community of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Royal Society Open Science, 5:180840. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180840
Fedurek, P., Slocombe, K.E., Enigk, D.K., Emery Thompson, M., Wrangham, R.W., Muller, M.N., (2016). The relationship between testosterone and long-distance calling in wild male chimpanzees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, 659–672. DOI: 10.1007/s00265-016-2087-1