2005 -  Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Florida State University
2000 - 2005 Director, School of Computational Science & Information Technology,
                 Florida State University
1996 -  Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor, FSU
1991 - 1997 Chair, Department of Biological Science, FSU
1980 -  Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, FSU

National Science Foundation Program in Population Biology (1986-89)
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (1999-2002)
External Review Panels (University of California-Irvine, Northern Arizona University, Indiana University, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, University of Houston, National Science Foundation Review of National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis), Harvard University
National Marine Fisheries Service Salmon Recovery Science Review Panel (2003-2006)
National Science Foundation, Directorate for Biological Sciences Advisory Council (2006-09)
National Science Foundation, Environmental Research and Education Advisory Council (2006-09)

Journal of Evolutionary Biology (1988-1991)
Oecologia (1990-1992)
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics (1991-1995)
The American Naturalist (1991-1995); Editor (1998-2002)

Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science (1991)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Miami (1991)
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Zurich (1991)
Vice-President, American Society of Naturalists (1994)
Distinguished Visiting Ecologist, Colorado State University (1994)
Dennis Chitty Lecturer, University of British Columbia (2001)
Distinguished Speaker, Georgia Southern University (2001)
President, American Society of Naturalists (2005)

Fuller, R. C., K. L. Carleton, J. M. Fadool, T. C. Spady, and J. Travis. 2005. Genetic and environmental variation in the visual properties of bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei. J. Evol. Biology 18:516-523.

Gunzburger, M. S., and J. Travis. 2005. Effects of multiple predator species on green treefrog (Hyla cinerea) tadpoles. Can. J. Zool. 83:996-1002.

Fuller, R. C., C. F. Baer, and J. Travis. 2005. How and when selection experiments might actually be useful. Int. Comp. Biol. 45:391-404.

Schrader, M., and J. Travis. 2005. Population differences in pre- and post-fertilization offspring provisioning in the Least Killifish Heterandria formosa. Copeia 2005:649-656.

Fuller, R. C., D. Houle, and J. Travis. 2005. Sensory bias as an explanation for the evolution of mate preferences. Am. Nat. 166:437-446.

Richardson, J. M. L., M. S. Gunzburger, and J. Travis. 2006. Variation in predation pressure as a mechanism underlying differences in numerical abundance between populations of the poeciliid fish Heterandria formosa. Oecologia 147:596-605.

Travis, J. 2006. Is it what we know or who we know? Choice of organism and robustness of inference in ecology and evolutionary biology. Am. Nat. 167:303-314.

Means, D. B., and J. Travis. 2007. Declines in ravine-inhabiting dusky salamanders in the southeastern Coastal Plain. Southeastern Naturalist 6:83-96.

McGhee, K. E., R. C. Fuller, and J. Travis. In press. Male competition and female choice interact to determine mating success in the bluefin killifish. Behavioral Ecology.

Historical. Supervised 8 M.S. theses, 14 Ph.D. dissertations, and 9 postdoctoral scholars. Served as member of 33 additional M.S. committees and 58 additional Ph.D. committees.

Current. Six doctoral students and one postdoctoral scholar are studying in the Travis laboratory.