Evolutionary Anthropology
Evolutionary anthropology is an integrated approach to the subfields of anthropology base on the application of evolutionary theory to questions in human and non-human primate behavior. The WSU anthropology program has strengths in evolutionary/behavioral ecology, evolutionary cultural anthropology, modeling, questions of scale, behavioral endocrinology, primatology, gene-culture interactions, phylogeopgraphy, evolution of childhood, hunter-gatherers, evolutionary developmental psychology. Faculty and students work around the globe in Central Africa, India, Amazonia, the Caribbean and the Pacific Northwest and Southwest of North America. Faculty maintain strong links to other evolutionary programs with the university and around the globe.
Evolutionary Anthropology Faculty
Dr. John H.Bodley
Interests: Growth, scale and power, networks and complexity theory, evolutionary anthropology, globalization and sustainability issues, Pacific Northwest of North America, Amazonia, Indigenous Peoples.
Email: bodleyj@wsu.edu
Dr. Barry S. Hewlett
Interests: Medical anthropology, hunters and gatherers, infant and child development, evolutionary cultural anthropology, international development. Sub-Saharan Africa (on the Vancouver campus)
Email: hewlett@vancouver.wsu.edu
Dr. Brian M. Kemp
Interests: Ancient DNA, new world archaeology
Email: bmkemp@wsu.edu
Dr. Timothy A. Kohler
Interests: Quantitative methods in anthropology, agent based models, evolutionary ecology. Archaeology of Southwestern and Southeastern North America
Email: tako@wsu.edu
Dr. Karen D Lupo
Interests: Zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, foragers, hominid evolution, hunter gatherer ecology. Great Basin, Africa
Email: klupo@wsu.edu
Dr. Jessica W Lynch Alfaro
Interests: Primate behavioral ecology and reproductive endocrinology; phylogeography of neotropical primate. Latin America
Email: jlynch-alfaro@wsu.edu
Dr. Courtney L. Meehan
Interests: Biocultural Anthropology, ethnography, parenting, cooperative child rearing, infant and child development, hunters and gatherers, kinship and family. Sub-Saharan Africa.
Email: cmeehan@wsu.edu
Dr. Robert Quinlan
Interests: Behavioral/evolutionary ecology, demography, medical anthropology, ethnography, parenting, child development, alcoholism, kinship and families. Caribbean
Email: rquinlan@wsu.edu
Dr. Steven A Weber
Interests: Evolution of subsistence systems and complex societies, archaeology. South Asia, Southwest and Northwest North America (on the Vancouver campus)
Email: weber@vancouver.wsu.edu
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