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Robert
Quinlan, Ph.D. |
Associate
Professor
Evolutionary
& Sociocultural Anthropology
Washington
State University
P.O. Box
644910
Pullman, WA
99164-4910 USA
Office:
College Hall 219
Phone:
509-335-5400
Email: rquinlanATwsuDOTedu
Areas: Evolutionary & behavioral ecology, medical & psychological anthropology, methods, cross-cultural
analysis, East Africa
My
research focuses on relations among environmental risk, human reproductive
behavior, life history, and cultural and psychological factors associated with
risk. After many years of research in the West Indies, I relocated my field
research to East Africa in 2011 where I am engaged in a study of life history
and population pressures in Ethiopia. I am also co-PI
on a NSF funded study of the evolution of antibiotic resistance among
agro-pastoralists in Northern Tanzania. I am very interested in developing
research capacity in East African Universities, especially at Hawassa University in Ethiopia. I regularly teach Human Issues in
International Development; Quantitative Methods in Anthropology; History of
Anthropological Thought; and graduate seminars on various topics in sociocultural anthropology and human behavioral ecology.
Representative
Publications
Adolescent Fertility and Risky Environments.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2012 Placek
& Quinlan
Human Biology. 2012 Caudell
& Quinlan
Extrinsic Mortality Effects on
Reproductive Strategies in a Caribbean Community.
Human
Nature. 2010
Human Parental Effort and Environmental Risk.(pdf)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2007
Gender and Risk in a Matrifocal Caribbean Community: A View from Behavioral
Ecology.(pdf)
American
Anthropologist. 2006