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I am a biocultural medical anthropologist focused on cultural impacts on health and human evolutionary biology. My PhD research (2009, University at Albany) focused on speaking in tongues and stress response among Apostolic Pentecostals in New York. I have several ongoing research projects that involve embodied belongingness and health, tattooing and immune response, and fireside relaxation. I work with several collaborators on these projects in the U.S., Costa Rica, Pacific Islands, and Pacific Northwest. I include students as collaborators on all my research, which you can learn more about on the page about my lab, the Human Behavioral Ecology Research Group (HBERG). We are always looking for good students to join us.
My training is in biological anthropology, but my orientation is as a biocultural medical anthropologist and human behavioral ecologist. I teach courses in biological anthropology, human sexuality, evolutionary studies, neuroanthropology, primatology, and more. I consider public engagement with research as important as research and teaching and involve students in these efforts. I am a Leshner Fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a program for public engagement with the sciences and engineering. I am Public Relations Chair for the Human Biology Association, an Editorial Board Member for the American Journal of Human Biology, and co-host the weekly peer-to-peer science The Sausage of Science and bi-monthly Inking of Immunity podcasts. I founded and direct a unique four-field outreach and service-learning program called Anthropology Is Elemental. Previously, I founded the Evolutionary Studies minor at UA, and still collaborate with colleagues internationally to seed and promote interdisciplinary evolutionary studies.
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