Dr. Randall Susman was named the Faculty Athletic Representative at Stony Brook in 2004.

Susman is Professor of Anatomical Sciences in the School of Medicine. His research activities span the fossil evidence of early human evolution in Africa, studies of wild apes in central Africa, and the comparative anatomy of humans and our closest relatives, the African apes. His publications appear in numerous professional journals and the popular press, and he is a regular contributor to the World Book Encyclopedia. Susman has taught human anatomy, human evolution, anatomy for artists, and other courses at Stony Brook over the past 28 years. He is a member of the graduate programs in Anthropological Sciences and Ecology and Evolution in addition to the graduate program in Anatomical Sciences in the Health Science Center. He has served as Director of the graduate programs in Anatomical Sciences and the Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences. For the past year he has served as Stony Brook's Faculty Athletic Representative.

Susman received his bachelor of arts degree in biological anthropology from UC Davis in 1970. He did his postgraduate work at the University of Chicago where he earned both his masters and Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology. He earned his law degree from the Jacob Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in 1988.