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Department of Anthropology

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Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

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Faculty: Select Recent Publications, Awards & Honors, Grants

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Lois C. Beck, Professor
Publications
2005 — “Rostam: Qashqa'i Rebel.” In Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, E. Burke III & D. Yaghoubian, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences
Grants
Carnegie Fellowship, “Making French Islam”

Pascal Boyer, Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory
Publications
2005 — (with H.C. Barrett) Evolved Intuitive Ontology. In Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, D. Buss, ed., pp. 96-118. New York: John Wiley.

David L. Browman, Professor
Publications
2005 — Tierras Comestibles de la Cuenca del Titicaca: Geofagia en la Prehistoria Boliviana. Estudios Atacameños 28: 133-141.
Awards & Honors
President, Washington University Chapter, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Honorary

Robert L. Canfield, Professor
Publications
2004 — New Trends among the Hazaras: From “The Amity of Wolves” to “The Practice of Brotherhood.” Iranian Studies 37(2): 241-262.

James Cheverud, Professor
Publications
2005 — (with G. Marroig) Size as a Line of Least Evolutionary Resistance: Diet and Adaptive Morphological Radiation in New World Monkeys. Evolution 59: 1128-1142.
Awards & Honors
Associate Editor, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Associate Editor, American Naturalist
Grants
National Science Foundation–Anthropology, “Collaborative Research: Genetics of Craniofacial Variation and Human Origins”
National Institutes of Mental Health, “Genetics of Schizophrenia-Related Traits in Mice”
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, “Genetic Basis of Dietary Obesity in Mice”

Geoff Childs, Assistant Professor
Publications
2005 — (with M.C. Goldstein, B. Jiao, & C.M. Beall) Tibetan Fertility Transitions in China and South Asia. Population and Development Review 31(2): 337-349.
Grants
National Science Foundation, “Economic Development and Intergenerational Relations in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China” (with M. Goldstein)

Glenn Conroy, Professor
Publications
2005 — (with J.W. Adams) Plio-Pleistocene faunal remains from Gondolin G2 in situ assemblage, Northwest Province, South Africa. In Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human, Primate, and Mammal Evolution in Honor of David Pilbeam, D.E. Lieberman, R.J. Smith, & J. Kelley. eds., pp. 243-261. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.

Patrick Eisenlohr, Assistant Professor
Publications
2004 — Temporalities of Community: ‘Ancestral Language,’ Pilgrimage and Diasporic Belonging in Mauritius. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 14(1): 81-98.

Gayle J. Fritz, Professor
Publications
2005 — Paleoethnobotanical Methods and Applications. In Handbook of Archaeological Methods, D.G. Herbert Maschner & C. Chippindale eds., pp. 771-832. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamisra Press.
Awards & Honors
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, and inducted in 2005
Co-Editor of Southeastern Archaeology

Bret Gustafson, Assistant Professor
Grants
Fulbright Grant, “Indigenous Language Ideologies and Educational Change in Bolivia”

T.R. Kidder, Professor
Publications
2004 — Prehistory of the Lower Mississippi Valley after 800 B.C. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14, Southeast, R.D. Fogelson, ed., W. Sturtevant, general ed., pp. 545-559. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Awards & Honors
Co-Editor, Southeastern Archaeology

Fiona Marshall, Professor
Publications
2004 — (with D. Dale & T. Pilgram) Delayed-Return Hunter-Gatherers in Africa? Historic Perspectives from the Okiek and Archaeological Perspectives from the Kansyore. In Hunters and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology, G. Crothers, ed., pp. 340-375. Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper 31. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University.
Grants
National Science Foundation award, “Domestication of the Donkey: Aridity, Mobility, and the Development of African Pastoral Societies”

Shanti A. Parikh, Assistant Professor
Publications
2005 — From Auntie to Disco: The Bifurcation of Risk and Pleasure in Sex Education in Uganda. In Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective, V. Adams & S. Pigg, eds. Durham: Duke University Press.
Grants
Fulbright Fellowship New Century Scholar, “Bargaining with Female Sexuality: Assessing the Age of Consent as a Feminist Strategy in Uganda”
National Institutes of Health, “Love, Marriage, and HIV: A Multi-Site Study of Gender and HIV Risk”

Jane E. Phillips-Conroy, Professor
Publications
2005 — (with J. Beehner & P. Whitten) Female testosterone, dominance rank, and aggression in an Ethiopian population of hybrid baboons. American Journal of Primatology 67(1): 101-19.
Awards & Honors
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2004
Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Physical Anthropologists
Grants
Leakey Foundation Grant, “Baboons in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia: Contact and Hybridization”

D. Tab Rasmussen, Professor
Publications
2005 — (with R.W. Sussman) Parallelisms among Primates and Possums. In Primate Origins and Adaptations, M. Ravosa & M. Dagosto, eds. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Richard J. Smith, Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and Chair
Publications
2005 — Relative Size versus Controlling for Size: Interpretation of Ratios in Research on Sexual Dimorphism in the Human Corpus Callosum. Current Anthropology 46: 249-273.

Glenn D. Stone, Professor
Publications
2004 — Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in India. Human Organization 63: 127-140.
Grants
National Science Foundation, “Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in Andhra Pradesh”
National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates Award for Anthropology Honors Student Robyn D'Avignon

Bradley P. Stoner, Associate Professor
Publications
2004 — (with S.O. Aral, et al.) The Seattle ‘Sexual Mixing,’ ‘Sexual Networks,’ and ‘Sexual Partnership Ttypes’ Studies. In Network Epidemiology: A Handbook for Survey Design and Data Collection, M. Morris, ed., pp. 139-171. New York: Oxford University Press.
Awards & Honors
Executive Board Member, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
Board of Directors Member, American Social Health Association
Grants
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Psychosocial Burden of a Positive Test for Chlamydia trachomatis”
Missouri Department of Health, “Syphilis Elimination”

Robert W. Sussman, Professor
Publications
2005 — (with P. Garber & J. Cheverud) The Importance of Cooperation and Affiliation in the Evolution of Primate Sociality. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 128: 84-97.
Awards & Honors
Council Delegate for Anthropology, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erik Trinkaus, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor in Arts & Sciences
Publications
2005 — Early modern humans. Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 207-230.
Grants
National Science Foundation and Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research grants, “Human Paleontology and Radiocarbon Chronology of the Pefltera Cioclovina and Pefltera Muierii, Romania” (Co-PIs: A. Soficaru & A. Dobofl)
National Science Foundation and Leakey Foundation grants, “Paleoanthropological Investigation of the Pefltera cu Oase, Romania” (Co-PIs: O. Moldovan, J. Zilhão, & H. Rougier)

James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences
Publications
2005 — Vygotsky’s two approaches to mediation. In Discourse in action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis, S. Norris & R.H. Jones, eds., pp. 52-61. London: Routledge.
Awards & Honors
Director, McDonnell International Scholar Academy, Washington University
Grants
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Conference grant for a meeting at the Bellagio Conference Center in August 2005 on “Negotiating a New National Narrative in Georgia”