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IPEM Faculty


IPEM core faculty are based in one of three units at two universities: Department of Anthropology or School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University, Pullman (WSU), or Department of Anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle (UW). In addition, there are affiliated faculty at partner institutions in the U.S. and abroad, as well as at WSU and UW. Links to the web pages of each faculty member provide additional information on their research and teaching (see also Research Opportunities and Curriculum on this web site).

Faculty in Core Units:

Jessica W. Lynch Alfaro (Anthropology, WSU)
Primate social systems, mating and life history, endocrinology, cultural transmission; neotropics.
[email; more info]

Michael E. Alfaro (Biology, WSU)
Phylogeny, Bayesian methods, complex trait evolution in fishes and snakes; Costa Rica.
[email; more info]

John H. Bodley (Anthropology, WSU)
Cultural evolution, power and scale relations, cultural ecology, environmental change, globalization.
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Ben Fitzhugh (Anthropology, UW)
Archaeology, evolution of hunter-gatherer social, cultural, technological, and economic organization, coupled human-environmental change; North Pacific Rim.
[email; more info]

Richard S. Gomulkiewicz (Biology & Mathematics, WSU)
Evolutionary ecology, niche evolution, mathematical biology.
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Steven M. Goodreau (Anthropology, UW)
Biocultural anthropology, infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, social network models, population genetics; Latin America and South Africa.
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Edward H. Hagen (Anthropology, WSU)
Darwinian medicine, mental health, child growth and development, evolution of cognition.
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Barry S. Hewlett (Anthropology, WSU)
Evolutionary cultural anthropology, biocultural contexts of infectious diseases, child development, Central Africa.
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Darryl J. Holman (Anthropology, UW)
Biological anthropology, statistical modeling, biodemography; Bangladesh.
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Brian M.  Kemp (Biology, WSU)
Molecular anthropology, ancient DNA, population genetics, peopling of the Americas, Native American prehistory, rates of molecular evolution, gene/culture/language co-evolution.
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Timothy A. Kohler (IPEM Director; Anthropology, WSU)
Archaeology, computational modeling of coupled social-natural systems, behavioral ecology, cultural transmission; prehistoric U.S. Southwest.
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Donna Leonetti (Anthropology, UW)
Biocultural anthropology, behavioral ecology, ecological demography, kinship and mating systems; India and North America.
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Karen D. Lupo (Anthropology, WSU)
Archaeology, behavioral ecology, zooarchaeology, hunter-gatherers, human-wildlife interactions; Central and East Africa.
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Robert J. Quinlan (Anthropology, WSU)
Biocultural anthropology, evolutionary ecology of reproduction and kinship, evolutionary medicine, cultural transmission; Caribbean.
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Eric Alden Smith (IPEM Co-director; Anthropology, UW)
Biocultural anthropology, game theory, behavioral ecology, ecological demography; small-scale societies of Native North America and Australia.
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Paul A. Verrell (Biology, WSU)
Animal social behavior, behavioral ecology, quantitative behavioral observation and experimentation, conflict and cooperation, mating strategies, conservation.
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Michael S. Webster (Biology, WSU)
Evolution of behavior, genetic markers, avian mating systems, migration ecology, population biology; Australia.
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Faculty in Affiliated Units:

Carl T. Bergstrom (Biology, UW)
Theoretical and mathematical biology, signaling systems (including human language), game theory, host-parasite coevolution.
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Mark Collard (Anthropology, U of British Columbia and Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity [CECD] at University College London [UCL])
Human origins and evolution, evolutionary archaeology, phylogenetic methods, cultural transmission, hunter-gatherer toolkit variation.
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Joseph Felsenstein (Genome Sciences and Biology, UW)
Statistical and computational methods of phylogenetic inference, population genetics.
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Peter Jordan (Archaeology, U of Aberdeen & CECD)
Ethnoarchaeology, cultural transmission and phylogeny, evolution of cultural diversity, technology; Siberia and Western Native North America.
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Ruth Mace (Anthropology, UCL & CECD)
Evolutionary anthropology, human life history and reproductive behavior, phylogenetic methods, biocultural evolution.
[email; more info]

John H. Miller (Santa Fe Institute)
Economics and decision theory, computational social science, game theory.
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John (Skip) Paznokas (Biology, and Science Mathematics and Engineering Education Center, WSU)
Science education, educational assessment.
[email; more info]

Stephen Shennan (Institute of Archaeology, UCL & CECD)
Prehistory, cultural evolution and cladistics; prehistoric Europe.
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Michael S. Trevisan (Assessment and Evaluation Center, WSU)
Student assessment, applied statistics, program evaluation.
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