Faculty: Selected Recent Publications, Awards & Honors, Grants

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Peter Benson
Publications
2008—El Campo: Faciality and Structural Violence in Farm Labor Camps. Cultural Anthropology 23(4):589-629.
2008—Good Clean Tobacco: Phillip Morris, Biocapitalism, and the Social Course of Stigma in North Carolina. American Ethnologist 35(3):357-379.

Pascal Boyer
Publications
2008—Bound to Belief? Nature 455:1038-9.
2008—P. Boyer and P. Lienard. Ritual Behavior in Obsessive and Normal Individuals: Moderating Anxiety and Reorganizing the Action-Flow. Current Directions in Psychological Science 17(4):291-4.
2008—Evolutionary Economics of Mental Time-Travel? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(6):219-223.
2008—P. Boyer and B. Bergstrom. Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion. Annual Review of Anthropology 37:111-130.

Robert L. Canfield
Publications
2008—Continuing Issues in the New Central Asia. In Le Monde Turco-Iranien en Question: Définition, Confins, Spécificités, M. Djalili, A. Monsutti, and A Neubauer, eds. L’Institut Universitaire d’études du Développement, Geneva.
2008—Fraternity, Power, and Time in Central Asia. In The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan, pp. 212-237, R. Crews and A. Tarzi, eds. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

James M. Cheverud
Publications
2008—G.P. Wagner, J.P. Kenney-Hunt, M. Pavlicev, J.R. Peck, D. Waxman, and J.M. Cheverud. Pleiotropic Scaling of Gene Effects and the “Cost of Complexity.” Nature 452:921-931.
2008—G.L. Fawcett, C.C. Roseman, J.P. Jarvis, B. Wang, and J.M. Cheverud. Genetic Architecture of Adiposity and Organ Weight Using Combined Generation QTL Analysis. Obesity 16:1861-1868.
2008—J.M. Cheverud, R. Hager, C.C. Roseman, G.L. Fawcett, B. Wang, and J.B. Wolf. Genomic Imprinting Effects on Adult Body Composition in Mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:4253-4258.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Editorial Board, Evolutionary Biology
Editorial Board, Journal of Experimental Zoology, Division of Molecular and Developmental Evolution
National Institutes of Health, Integrative Physiology of Obesity and Diabetes, NIH Center for Scientific Review

Grants

• National Science Foundation—Human Origins, Moving in New Directions, “Collaborative Research: Human Origins and the Molecular Genetic Basis of Craniofacial Evolution,” Co-Principal Investigator (K. Weiss, PI)
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences, “Genomic Approaches to Common Chronic Disease,” Co-Principal Investigator (C. Sing, PI)
• National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, “Genetic and Environmental Relationships between Bone, Obesity, and Leptin,” Principal Investigator

Geoff Childs
Publications
2008—M.C. Goldstein, G. Childs, and P. Wangdui. “Going for Income”: A Longitudinal Analysis of Change in Farming Tibet, 1997–98 to 2006–07. Asian Survey 48(3):514-534.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Editorial Board, Tibet Journal
Associate Editor, Himalaya
Board of Directors, SEEDS (Social, Educational, Environmental Development Services)

Glenn C. Conroy
Publications
2007—J.W. Adams, A.I.R. Herries, K.L. Kuykendall, and G.C. Conroy. Geology, Faunas, and Taphonomy of the GD 1 Deposits at Gondolin, A Plio-Pleistocene Paleocave System in the Northwest Province, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:2526-2543.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Distinguished Teaching Award, Washington University School of Medicine
Coursemaster of the Year, Washington University School of Medicine

Michael Frachetti
Publications
2008—Variability and Dynamic Landscapes of Mobile Pastoralism in Ethnography and Prehistory. In The Archaeology of Mobility: Nomads in the Old and in the New World, pp. 366-396, H. Barnard and W. Wendrich, eds. Cotsen Advanced Seminar Series 4, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Advisory Editor, Journal of World Prehistory
Co-Chair (with David Browman), Events Committee for 75th Anniversary Meeting (2010) of SAA, St. Louis, MO

Grants

• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Eurasia, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), “Nomadic Networks and the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor: Documenting the Earliest Spread of Domestic Animals and Pastoralism in Inner Asia”
• Fulbright Research Scholar, Almaty (Kasakhstan), “Nomadic Networks and the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor: Documenting the Earliest Spread of Domestic Animals and Pastoralism in Inner Asia”
• Mary-Morris Stein Foundation Grant, “Dzhungar Regional Archaeological Project”
• Grimm Travel Grant, “Dzhungar Regional Archaeological Project”

Gayle Fritz
Publications
2008—Paleoethnobotanical Information and Issues Relevant to the I-69 Overview Process, Northwest Mississippi. In Times River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi River Valley, pp. 299-343, J. Rafferty and E. Peacock, eds. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
2008—The Transition to Agriculture in the Desert Borderlands: An Introduction. In Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico, pp. 25-33, L.D. Webster and M.E. McBrinn, eds. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2008—Plum Bayou Foodways: Distinctive Aspects of the Paleoethnobotanical Record. The Arkansas Archaeologist 47-48:31-41.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Co-editor, Southeastern Archaeology
Archaeobotanical Consultant, National Science Foundation-funded Project, “Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonialism and Household Practice at the Berry Site, North Carolina”

Rebecca J. Lester
Publications
2008—Anxious Bliss: A Case Study of Dissociation in a Mexican Nun. Transcultural Psychiatry 45(1):56-78.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Board Member, Society for Psychological Anthropology
Special Recognition, Faculty Mentor Award, 2008

Derek Pardue
Publications
2008—Los Altibajos de la Negritude Entre los Hip-hoppers Brasileños: Historia Cultural e Interpretación en la Nación Más Negra de América Latina. In South by Midwest: Cultura y Cambio Social en América Latina, pp. 367-401, M. Moraña, ed. and G. Aguiar, trans. Iberoamericana, Madrid.
2008—Review of Silence: The Currency of Power, M-L. Achino-Loeb, ed. American Ethnologist 35(2):2008-2011.
2008—Back Cover Review of Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal, J. Levin. Prometheus Books, New York.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Nominee for ArtSci Council’s Faculty Award from the Council for Undergraduate Students of Arts and Sciences, Washington University
International Area Fellowship, Washington University
Event Organizer, “Brazil Week,” Washington University

Shanti A. Parikh
Publications
2008—Beyond the Structure vs. Agency Debate in Sexual Decision-making: Love Letters, Youth Romance and Condoms in Uganda. In Sex, Power and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond, pp. 67-84, Dorothy Roberts et al. (eds.). Ian Randle Publishers: Kingston, Jamaica.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Advisory Board, United Nations Gender Division, Eastern Caribbean, Building Responsive Policy: Gender, Sexual Culture, and HIV in the Caribbean
Board of Directors, Planned Parenthood Saint Louis Region
Board of Directors, Saint Louis Effort for AIDS

Grants

• Pilot Research Grant, Columbia University School of Public Health, “The Social Impact of Antiretrovirals: Sexuality, Gender, and Life Projects of People Living with HIV”

Jane Phillips-Conroy
Publications
2008—C.J. Jolly, J.E. Phillips-Conroy, J.R. Fontenot Kaplan, and J.J. Mann. Cerebrospinal Fluid Monoaminergic Metabolites in Wild Anubis (Papio anubis) and Hamadryas (P. hamadryas) Baboons Are Concordant with Taxon-Specific Behavioral Ontogeny. International Journal of Primatology 29:1549-1566.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Election to Alpha Omega Alpha
Second Century Award
Preclinical Teacher of the Year, Washington University School of Medicine
Distinguished Service Teaching Award, Washington University School of Medicine

Herman Pontzer
Publications
2008—D.A. Raichlen, H. Pontzer, and M.D. Sockol. The Laetoli Footprints and Early Hominin Kinematics. Journal of Human Evolution 54:112-117.
2008—M.L. Carter, H. Pontzer, R.W. Wrangham, and J. Kerbis Peterhans. Skeletal Pathology in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in Kibale National Park, Uganda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135:389-403.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
2008–11 Earle H. & Suzanne S. Harbison Faculty Fellowship, Washington University

Grants

• Washington University Faculty Research Grant, “Energy Use in Bonobos”

Bradley P. Stoner
Publications
2008—Sexually Transmitted Infections: Overview. In International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Vol. 5, pp. 713-723, H.K. Heggenhougen and S.R. Quah, eds. Academic Press, San Diego.
2008—Rapid Tests for Maternal Syphilis Screening: Effective and Cost-Effective. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 35:785-786.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Board Member, American Social Health Association
Editorial Board Member, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Vice President, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association
Initiated Public Health Speaker Series, Washington University

Robert W. Sussman
Publications
2008—R. Sussman and D. Hart. The Behavior and Ecology of Our Earliest Hominid Ancestors. In Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, pp. 259-279, J.G. Fleagle and C.C. Gilbert, eds. Springer, New York.
2008—M. Fourrier, R.W. Sussman, R. Kippen, and G. Childs. Demographic Modeling of a Predator–Prey System and Its Implications for the Gombe Red Colobus (Procolobus badius) Population. International Journal of Primatology 29:497-508.
2008—DeSalle’s and Tattersall’s Human Origins: A Companion to The Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Human Origins and More. Evolution: Education and Outreach (Book Review Essay, Published Online). Springer: New York.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Treasurer and Co-Founder, Midwest Primate Interest Group
Executive Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropology
Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Interdisciplinary Activity, American Society of Primatology
Member, La Suerte Honorary Board, Estación Biológica La Suerte, Costa Rica
Secretary, Section H (Anthropology), American Association for the Advancement of Science
Member, Panel of Reviewers, Wenner-Gren Foundation
Editor, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology
Editorial Board, Tropical Conservation Science (e-journal)
Editor, Primate Field Studies Monograph Series, Prentice Hall, Massachusetts
Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Primatology
Member, Selection Committee, Field Research Program, Saint Louis Zoological Park
Member, Scientific Advisory Council, Lemur Conservation Foundation
Member, Nomination and Selection Committee, Conservation Action Prize, International Center for Tropical Ecology, University of Missouri–St. Louis
Member, Advisory Board, Roundtable Viewpoint: Physical Anthropology, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Boston
Invited Speaker, Modeling Social Behavior Informational Conference, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington D.C.

Grants

• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Conference Proposal, and National Science Foundation Conference Proposal, “Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality”
• Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values, Washington University, Workshop on “Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality and Altruism”

Erik Trinkaus
Publications
2008—M.J. Walker, J. Gibert, M.V. Lopez, A.V. Lombardi, A. Prez-Prez, J. Zapata, J. Ortega, T. Higham, A. Pike, J.L. Schwenninger, J. Zilho, and E. Trinkaus. Late Neandertals in Southeastern Iberia: Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Murcia, Spain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:20631-20636.
2008—M.P. Richards, M. Pacher, M. Stiller, J. Quils, M. Hofreiter, S. Constantin, J. Zilho, and E. Trinkaus. Isotopic Evidence for Omnivory among European Cave Bears: Late Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus from the Pestera cu Oase, Romania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:600-604.
2008—E. Trinkaus, B. Maley, and A.P. Buzhilova. Paleopathology of the Kiik-Koba 1 Neandertal. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 137:106112.

James V. Wertsch
Publications
2008—H. Daniels, M. Cole and J.V. Wertsch (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2008—Blank Spots in Collective Memory: A Case Study of Russia. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 617:58-71.
2008—Collective Memory. In Cognitive Psychology of Memory, pp. 297-940, H.L. Roediger, III, ed. Vol. 2 of Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, J. Byrne, ed. Elsevier, Oxford.
2008—The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory. Ethos: Journal for the Society for Psychological Anthropology 36(1):120-135.

Awards, Honors, Achievements
Member, Board of Editors, Culture and Psychology
Member, Board of Editors, Psikhologiya. Novyi Vek (Psychology. New Century)
Member, Board of Editors, The Caucasus and Globalization: Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies
Member, Board of Directors, World Security Institute, Washington, D.C.
Member, Board of Editors, Mind, Culture and Activity: An International Journal
Concurrent Professor, Institute for International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Guest Professor, Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Professor II, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway