Currently Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she directs the Lower Amazon Project in Brazil and the Congo River Project in the Central African Republic. Author and editor of Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present, Moundbuilders of the Amazon, Ancient Lakes, Cultural and Biological Diversity and three other books, she has written 65 articles for journals such as Science and Nature. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the distinguished Order of Rio Branco and Bettendorf Medal from Brazil, Roosevelt has served as a chair of the Anthropology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences, a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.