College of Liberal Arts

Department of Anthropology

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, 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. Ed Hagen

Interests: Darwinian medicine, mental health, drug use, child growth and development. Sub-Saharan Africa
Email: edhagen@vancouver.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. 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

CONTACT INFORMATION

Graduate Coordinator
Rob Quinlan
rquinlan@wsu.edu

(509) 335-5405

Student Representative

 

Learn more about the WSU Evolutionary Graduate Program (PDF)

One-page pdf admission checklist

 

Main Office Information:

 

College Hall 150
PO Box 644910
Pullman, WA 99164-4910
Phone: 509.335.3441
FAX: 509.335.3999

 

 

 

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