IHB Steering Committee
(Ph.D. Dartmouth College 2017; Assist. Prof). Behavioral ecology; how human health and life history are shaped by the interactions between social behavior, culture, and the environment
(Ph.D. U New Mexico 1979; Prof). Evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, hunter-gatherers
(Ph.D.; UCLA, 1994; Prof). Primate immunogenetics and molecular ecology
IHB Staff
Brittany Kiser
Anthropology Programs Manager
801.213.1399
brittany.kiser@anthro.utah.edu
Faculty
(Prof, Biology and Mathematics)
Evolutionary ecology; mathematical epidemiology and immunology; urban ecology
(Assoc. Prof, Anthropology)
Cultural evolution; evoultionary theory; statistical modeling; ethnography of Tonga
and the Tongan diaspora communities around the world; migration
(Prof and Dept. Chair, Anthropology)
Zooarchaeology, evolutionary ecology, human paleoecology, North American Prehistory (especially California and the Great Basin)
(Assist. Prof, Biology)
Evolutionary ecology of hosts and parasites; coevolution; parasite systematics; parasite biodiversity
(Distinguished Prof. Biology and of Geology and Geophysics)
Paleoecology; stable and cosmogenic isotopes; environmental studies
(Prof, Anthropology)
Behavioral ecology, foraging economies, anthropogenic fire, gender division of labor,
ethnoarchaeology, ethno-ecology, GIS; Australia & North America
(Distinguished Prof, Biology)
Microbiology and molecular evolution; insects and endosymbionts
(Distinguished Prof, Anthropology)
Human evolution, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, hunter-gatherers, life history evolution
(Assoc. Prof, Anthropology)
Biocultural perspectives on mate choice, human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, kinship; Brazil
(Asst. Prof, Anthropology)
Behavioral ecology; how human health and life history are shaped by the interactions between social behavior, culture, and the environment
(Prof, Anthropology)
Behavioral ecology, demography, cooperative breeding, evolution and economics of childhood & parenting; hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists; Latin America
(Assoc. Prof, Anthropology)
Archaeology, prehistoric demography, complex societies, human/land relationships; Mesoamerica, Europe
(Prof, Biology).
Host-pathogen coevolution; behavior; immunogenetics and evolutionary genetics
(Prof, Biology)
Avian ecology, climate change, community-based conservation, conservation finance, ecosystem services, entomology, landscape ecology, ornithology, primatology, tropical ecology