| Faculty: Selected Recent Publications, Awards & Honors, Grants
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Lois C. Beck
Publications
2006— L. Beck and J. Huang. Manipulating Private Lives and Public Spaces, in Qashqa’i Society in Iran. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 26(2): 303-325.
2006— L. Beck and J. Huang. Peoples of the World: The Qashqa’i, Detroit Free Press, October 31, 2006. (Also syndicated in 50 U.S. newspapers, October-November 2006.)
Grants
· Roland Grimm Traveling Fellowship to Asia, Washington University, “Anthropological Research in Iran on Qashqa’i Nomadic Pastoralists and the Islamic Republic of Iran“
Pascal Boyer
Publications
2006— Why Ritualized Behaviour in Humans? Precaution Systems and Action-parsing in Developmental, Pathological and Cultural Rituals. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29: 1-56.
2006— Prosocial Aspects of Afterlife Beliefs: Maybe Another By-product. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25(5): 466-466.
2006— P. Lienard and P. Boyer. Whence Cultural Rituals? A Cultural Selection Model of Ritualized Behaviour. American Anthropologist 108(4): 814-827.
Awards & Honors
· Editor, Journal of Cognition and Culture Grants
· Templeton Advanced Research Grant, “Psychology of Ritualized Behavior“
David L. Browman
Awards & Honors
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Student Senate, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Washington University
President, Washington University Chapter, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Honorary
Grants
· Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant, “Late Epiclassic Transitional Dynamics at La Quemada, Zacatecas, Mexico”
· Washington University Faculty Research Grant, “Pilot Project to Identify Third Prehistoric Domestic Camelid in the Andes”
James M. Cheverud
Publications
2006— R.R. Ackermann, J. Rogers, and J.M. Cheverud. Identifying the Morphological Signatures of Hybridization in Primate and Human Evolutions. Journal of Human Evolution 51: 632-645.
2006— M.V. Martin, H. Dong, D. Vallera, D. Lee, L. Lu, R.W. Williams, G.D. Rosen, J.M. Cheverud, and J.G. Csernansky. Independent Quantitative Trait Loci Influence Ventral and Dorsal Hippocampal Volume in Recombinant Inbred Strains of Mice. Genes, Brain and Behavior 5: 614-623
2006— J.P. Kenney-Hunt, T.T. Vaughn, L.S. Pletscher, A. Peripato, E. Routman, K. Cothran, D. Durand, E. Norgard, C. Perel, and J.M. Cheverud. Quantitative Trait Loci for Body Size Components in Mice. Mammalian Genome 17: 526-537.
Awards & Honors
· Underwood Fellowship, BBSRC, University of Manchester, UK
· Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Student Senate, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Washington University · Editorial Board, Evolutionary Biology
· Editorial Board Journal of Experimental Zoology, Division of Molecular and Developmental Evolution
Grants
∙National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, “Genetic Variation in Murine Long Bone Length and Development”
· National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, “Genetic and Environmental Relationships between Bone, Obesity, and Leptin”
· National Institute of General Medical Sciences, “Mapping Murine Regeneration Genes” (with E. Heber-Katz)
Gayle Fritz
Publications
2006— Introduction and Spread of Mexican Crops. In Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 3, D. Ubelaker, ed., pp. 437-446. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
Awards & Honors
· Co-editor, Southeastern Archaeology
Bret Gustafson
Publications
2006— Spectacles of Autonomy and Crisis: Or, What Bulls and Beauty Queens Have To Do with Regionalism in Bolivia. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11(2): 351-379.
Jane Phillips-Conroy
Awards & Honors
· Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropologists
· Distinguished Service Teaching Award 2006
Grants
· Faculty Research Grant, Washington University, “Phenotypic and Genetic Variation among Hybrid Baboons of the Luangwa and Kafue Drainage Systems in Zambia”
· Leakey Foundation Grant, “Baboons in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia: Contact and Hybridization” (with C.J. Jolly) (2006-07)
· National Geographical Society, “Hybrid Baboons of the Luangwa and Kafue Drainage Systems of Eastern and Central Zambia” (2006-07)
Herman Pontzer
Publications
2006— D.E. Lieberman, D.A. Raichlen, D.M. Bramble, H. Pontzer, and E. Cutright-Smith. The Human Gluteus Maximus and its Role in Running. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 2143-2155.
2006— H. Pontzer and R.W. Wrangham. The Ontogeny of Ranging in Wild Chimpanzees. International Journal of Primatology 27: 295-309.
Awards & Honors
· Richard J. Herrnstein Prize, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, for “the best dissertation that exhibits excellent scholarship, originality and breadth of thought, and commitment to intellectual independence”
· Dwight D. Davis Award, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
· Ales Hrdlicka Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists
D. Tab Rasmussen
Publications
2006— K.E. Townsend, A.R. Friscia, and D.T. Rasmussen. Stratigraphic Distribution of Upper Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrate Localities in the Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah, with Comments on Uintan Biostratigraphy. The Mountain Geologist 43(2): 115-134.
2006— R. Dunn, J.M. Sybalsky, G.C. Conroy, and D.T. Rasmussen. Hindlimb Adaptations in Ourayia and Chipetaia, Relatively Large-bodied Omomyine Primates from the Middle Eocene of Utah. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131: 303-310.
2006— D.T. Rasmussen and R.W. Sussman. Parallelisms among Primates and Possums. In Primate Origins: Adaptations and Evolution, M.J. Ravosa and M. Dagosto, eds. pp. 775-803. Springer-Verlag.
Awards & Honors
· Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Bradley P. Stoner
Publications
2006— Infectious diseases. In Encyclopedia of Disability, G.L. Albrecht, ed., pp. 953-954. Sage Publications.
Awards & Honors
· Vice-President, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
· Board Member, American Social Health Association
Grants
· Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “St. Louis STD/HIV Prevention Training Center" (Project Director)
Robert W. Sussman
Publications
2006— S.M. Lehman, R.W. Sussman, J. Phillips-Conroy, and W. Prince. Ecological Biogeography of Primates in Guyana: The Effects of Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbances. In Primate Biogeography, S.M. Lehman and J. Fleagle, eds., pp. 105-130. Springer Verlag.
2006— R.W. Sussman, S. Sweeney, G.M. Green, I. Porton, O.L. Andrianasolondraibe, and J. Ratsirarson. A Preliminary Estimate of Lemur Catta Population Density Using Satellite Imagery. In Ringtailed Lemur Biology, A. Jolly, R.W. Sussman, N. Kyoama, and H. R. Rasamimanana, eds., pp. 14-29. Springer Verlag.
2006— R.W. Sussman and D. Hart. Modeling the Past: The Primatological Approach. In Handbook of Palaeoanthropology Vol. 1: Principles, Methods, and Approaches, W. Henke, H. Roth, and I. Tattersall, eds., pp. 702-721. Springer Verlag.
Awards & Honors
· Editor, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology (2008-12)
· President and Co-Founder, Midwest Primate Interest Group
· Executive Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropology (2008-12)
· Secretary, Section H (Anthropology), American Association for the Advancement of Science
· WW Howells Book Prize, American Anthropological Association (with D. Hart)
Grants
· National Science Foundation, Conference Proposal: Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality
Erik Trinkaus
Publications
2006— Modern Human Versus Neandertal Evolutionary Distinctiveness. Current Anthropology 47(4): 597-620.
2006— E. Trinkaus, F.H. Smith, T.C. Stockton, and L.L. Shackelford. The Human Postcranial Remains from Mladeč. In Early Modern Humans at the Moravian Gate: The Mladeč Caves and their Remains, M. Teschler-Nicola, ed., pp. 385-445. Springer Verlag.
2006— A. Soficaru, A. Doboş, and E. Trinkaus. Early Modern Humans from the Peştera Muierii, Baia de Fier, Romania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103, 17196-17201.
Lewis Wall
Publications
2006— L.W. Wall, S.D. Arrowsmith, A.T. Lassey, and K.A. Danso. Humanitarian Ventures or ‘Fistula Tourism’? The Ethical Perils of Pelvic Surgery in the Developing World. International Urogynecology Journal 17(6): 559-562; published online doi:10.1007/s00192-005-0056-8.
2006— L.W. Wall and D. Brown. Regarding Zygotes as Persons: Implications for Public Policy. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (4): 602-610.
2006— Obstetric Vesicovaginal Fistula as an International Public Health Problem. Lancet 368(9542): 1201-1209 (September 2006)
James V. Wertsch
Publications
2006— Georgia after the Rose Revolution. The Caucasus & Globalization: Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies 1(1): 54-66.
2006— Generalized Collective Dialogue and Advanced Foreign Language Capacities. In Advanced language learning: The contributions of Halliday and Vygotsky, H. Byrnes, ed., pp. 58-71. London: Continuum.
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