Research
Publications
"Learning to be Queer: College Women’s Sexual Fluidity. "
Introducing the New Sexuality Studies, 4th edition, edited by Nancy Fischer, Steven Seidman, and Laurel Westbrook. New York: Routledge.
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"Patriarchical Sources of Male Abuse in Seven Muslim Majority Countries. "
#MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment. London: IB Tauris/Bloomsbury Press
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"Positive correlation between women’s status and intimate partner violence suggests violence backlash in Mwanza, Tanzania. "
Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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"The importance of elders: Extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers. "
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(28), e2200073119.
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"Context Matters: The Gendering of Physics Coursework in Arabic-speaking, Hebrew-speaking, and Single-sex School Sectors in Israel. "
Sex Roles 86:620-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-022-01292-3.
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"Who’s a Good Fit? Segregation, Stereotypes and STEM. "
Social Stratification: Class Race and Gender in Sociological Perspective, David Grusky, Nima Dahir and Claire Daviss, Editors. Routlege.
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"Of elephants and other mammals: A comparative review of reproductive tumors and potential impact on conservation. "
Animals. 2022 In Press.
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"Wins and losses in intergroup conflicts reflect energy balance in red-tailed monkeys."
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1851), 20210152.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0152
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"Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities"
Research in Labor Economics, forthcoming, 2022, 50.
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"Navigational experience and the preservation of spatial abilities into old age among a tropical forager-farmer population. "
Topics in Cognitive Science.
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"Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females. "
J of Human Evolution.
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"Cancer susceptibility as a cost of reproduction and contributor to life history evolution. "
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10 (2022): 861103.
Research Themes:
"The importance of elders: extending Hamilton’s force of selection to include intergenerational transfers. "
PNAS 119(28):e2200073119.
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"Female Health Across the Tree of Life: Insights at the Intersection of Women's Health, One Health and Planetary Health. "
PNAS nexus 1.2 (2022): pgac044.
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"Cultural variation in running techniques among non-industrial societies. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences 4:e14.
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"Forest terrains influence walking kinematics among the Amazonian Tsimane. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences.
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"Human total, basal and activity energy expenditures are independent of ambient environmental temperature. "
iScience 25:104682.
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"Niche diversity predicts personality structure across 115 nations. "
Psychological Science 33(2):285-298.
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"IAEA DLW Database Consortium. Total energy expenditure is repeatable in adults but not associated with short-term changes in body composition. "
Nature Communications 13:99.
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"The Development of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Identity among Mexican-Origin Youth across Latino/a Destinations."
Developmental Psychology. 57(11):1910-1925. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001251
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"Socioeconomic status effects on health vary between rural and urban Turkana. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 9:406-419, eoab39. [“Editor’s choice” article]
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"Helminth infection is associated with dampened cytokine responses to viral and bacterial stimulations in Tsimane hunter-horticulturalists. "
Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 9:349-359, eoab035. (*=co-senior author).
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"Is it the timing? Short-term mobility and coital frequency in Agbogbloshie, Ghana. "
Archives of Sexual Behavior 50(2):589-600. (PMCID: PMC7889649)
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"A biological approach to adult sex differences in skeletal indicators of childhood stress. "
American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24424
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"Elephant genome reveal accelerated evolution in mechanisms underlying disease defenses. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38.9 3606-3620.
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"The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. "
Science 374: eabf0130. (*=co-senior)
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" Drone service response: spatiotemporal heterogeneity implications."
Journal of Transport Geography 93, 103074 (DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103074).
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"Multi-objective trajectory optimization in planning for sequential activities across space and through time. "
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48, 945-963 (DOI: 10.1177/2399808320913300).
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"Exploring public open data: micro-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of restaurant entrepreneurship in Seoul, Korea. "
International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research 8(3), 5.
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"Resilience in complex networks. "
In Handbook on Entropy, Complexity and Spatial Dynamics: A Rebirth of Theory? edited by A. Reggiani, L.A. Schintler, D. Czamanski and R. Patuelli, 418-431 (Edward Elgar Publishing) (DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100598).
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"Physical activity and fat-free mass during growth and in later life"
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 114(5):1583-1589.
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"Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer. "
Evolutionary applications 14.4: 877-892.
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"Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 9.1: 11-23.
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"APOE4 is associated with elevanted blood lipids and lower levels of innate immune biomarkers in a tropical Amerindian population. "
eLife 10:e68231. (*=co-corresponding author)
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"Using Longitudinal Data to Explore the Gender Gap for Academic Economists"
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings.
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"The Structure of Health Incentives: Evidence from a Field Experiment"
Management Science, 2020, 66(5): 1783-2290. (Also NBER Working Paper #23188)
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"Who Chooses Commitment? Evidence and Welfare Implications?"
Review of Economic Studies.
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"Teaching Sociology of Gender During Covid-19: Lessons from Contexts Magazine."
Contexts, Sociology for the Public, Blog. April 15, 2021.
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"Energy compensation and adiposity in humans. "
Current Biology 31:1-8.
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"Benefits of megastudies for testing behavioural interventions"
392-393
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"Connecting paleopathology and evolutionary medicine to cancer research: past and present. "
Evolving Health: Paleopathology and Evolutionary Medicine, Oxford University Press.
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"The Specter of Motherhood: Culture and the Production of Gendered Career Aspirations in Science and Engineering."
Gender & Society 35(3): 395-421.
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"Very low prevalence and incidence of atrial fibrillation among Bolivian forager-farmers. "
Annals of Global Health 87(1):18.
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"Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society? "
eLife 10:e59437.
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"Human uniqueness? Life history diversity among small-scale societies and chimpanzees. "
PLoS ONE 16(2): e0239170. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239170
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"The indigenous South American Tsimane exhibit relatively modest decrease in brain volume with age despite high systemic inflammation. "
J. of Gerontology: Series A Biological Sciences glab138.
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"High prevalence of sternal foramina in indigenous Bolivians Compared to Midwest Americans and Indigenous North Americans. "
Anatomical Science International.
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"Was facial width-to-height ratio subject to sexual selection pressures? A life course approach. "
PLoS ONE 16(3): e0240284. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240284
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"Traditional and biomedical maternal and neonatal care practices in a rural indigenous population of the Bolivian Amazon. "
Global Public Health: 1-15. doi:10.1080/17441692.2021.1882531.
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"Daily energy expenditure through the human life course. "
Science 373:808-812.
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"Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions. "
International Journal of Paleopathology 33:209-219.
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"A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies. "
Cell Reports Medicine, 2(2), 100203.
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"He for she? Variation and exaggeration in men's support for women's empowerment in northern Tanzania. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, E27. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.23
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"PhDLand use impacts on parasitic infection: a cross-sectional epidemiological study on the role of irrigated agriculture in schistosome infection in a dammed landscape. "
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 10:1: 1-10
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"Rethinking Resilient Agriculture: From Climate-Smart Agriculture to Vulnerable-Smart Agriculture. "
Journal of Cleaner Production.
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"A Review of Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets and Indicators in Support of Drought Monitoring. "
Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 3. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 94.
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"Agricultural Innovations to Reduce the Health Impacts of Dams. "
Sustainability 13.4 (2021): 1869.
Research Themes:
"A Review of Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets and Indicators in Support of UNCCD Strategic Objective (SO): To Improve Living Conditions of Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought. "
Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 2. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 76.
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"Perceptions and application of the ecosystem services approach among Pacific Northwest National Forest managers. "
Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1259.
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"Effective strategies to promote HIV self-testing for men who have sex with men: evidence from a mathematical model. "
Epidemics 37:100518.
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"The Development of STEM Efficacy and Identity among Mexican-Origin Youth across Latino/a Destinations. "
Developmental Psychology.
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"Understanding the Health Landscapes where Latinx Immigrants Establish Residence in the United States.”"
Health Affairs. 40(7): 1108-1116.
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"Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity. "
Handbook of Cities and Networks, edited by Z. Neal and C. Rozenblat, 331-349 (Edward Elgar Publishers).
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"Coastal vulnerability under extreme weather. "
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-020-09357-0).
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"Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation. "
Geospatial Technology and Smart Cities, edited by Poonam Sharma, 299-314 (Springer) (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71945-6).
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"Gender, family separation, and negative emotional well-being among recent Mexican migrants"
The Journal of Marriage and Family
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"Can Positive Feedback Encourage Female and Minority Undergraduates into Economics? "
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, 111(5).
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"Small farmer land use and deforestation in tropical forest frontiers: Implications for conservation and sustainable livelihoods. "
Land 10(11), 1113
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"Coal exploitation and income inequality: Testing the resource curse with econometric analyses of household survey data from northwestern China. "
Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy
53 (1), 452-469.
Research Themes:
"Gender and Social Movements. "
Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology, edited by Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press.
Research Themes:
"Elephant genome reveals insights into differences in disease susceptibility between species. "
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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"Postpartum depression and mother-offspring conflict over maternal investment. "
Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. 9.1 11-23.
Research Themes:
"Identifying key questions in the ecology and evolution of cancer. "
Evolutionary applications 14.4 877-892.
Research Themes:
"Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process:Evidence from China. "
Journal of Development Economics.
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"Experimental Methods: Eliciting Beliefs. "
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 189, September, 2021, 234-256.
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"A call for epidemic modeling to examine historical and structural drivers of racial disparities in infectious disease. "
Social Science & Medicine 276:113833. (PMCID: PMC8168281)
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"Traditional Asians? Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Policy Attitudes in the United States. "
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 7:130–53. Special issue on Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda.
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"Using a multimethod life history approach to navigate the osteological paradox: A case study from Prehispanic Nasca, Peru. "
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24279
Research Themes:
"Do computed tomography findings agree with traditional osteological examination? The case of porous cranial lesions. "
International Journal of Paleopathology.
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1d2al6hTLQgXap
Research Themes:
"Human uniqueness? Life history diversity among small-scale societies and chimpanzees. "
PloS one 16.2 (2021): e0239170.
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"Married too young? The behavioral ecology of 'child marriage'. "
Social Sciences. 10: 161
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"Data and HIT Systems in Primary Care Settings: an Analysis of Perceptions and Use."
Journal of Health Organization and Management. Vol. 35 No.4, pp.425-442, PMID 33354961. https://doi. org/10.1108/JHOM-03-2020-0071
Research Themes:
"He for She? Variation and exaggeration in men’s support for women’s empowerment in northern Tanzania. "
Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3: E27.
Research Themes:
" Shared interests or sexual conflict? Spousal age gap, women’s wellbeing and fertility in rural Tanzania. "
Evolution and Human Behavior. 42: 165-175
Research Themes:
"Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration. "
Nature Human Behaviour. 5:668-671.
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"“I have never seen something like that”: Discrepancies between lived experiences and the global health concept of child marriage in northern Tanzania. "
PLOS ONE. 16(4): e024920.
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"Are Men Animals? How modern masculinity sells men short. Men and Masculinities. "
Book Review.
Research Themes:
"Holiday, Just One Day Out of Life: Birth Timing and Post-natal Outcomes. "
Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming (NBER Working Paper #27346).
Research Themes:
"Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia. "
Global Environmental Change, 71, 102414.
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"Straight Girls Kissing: Heteroflexibility in the College Party Scene."
Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies, edited by James J. Dean and Nancy L. Fischer. New York/Routledge.
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"Consideraciones metodólogicas para el conteo de la población afromexicana en el Censo 2020"
Coyuntura Demográfica, 14, 49-56.
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"Anticipated and experienced ethnic/racial discrimination and sleep: A longitudinal study. "
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-12. doi: 10.1177/014616722C928859.
Research Themes:
"Mixed signals: The unintended effects of diversity initiatives. "
Social Issues and Policy Review, 14. (1), 152-181. doi: 10.1111/sipr.12059.
Research Themes:
"Cardiovascular, behavioral and psychological responses to organizational prodiversity messages among racial/ethnic minorities. "
Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1-21. doi: 10.1177/1368430220944222.
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"Mano Suave–Mano Dura: Legitimacy Policing and Latino Stop-and-Frisk."
American Sociological Review.
Research Themes:
"The countervailing effects of weight stigma on weight-loss motivation and perceived capacity for weight control. "
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/0146167220903184.
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"Sex-specific effects of harsh childhood environment on psychometrically assessed life history strategy: No mediation through developmental timing or embodied capital."
Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. 6(3), 307-333.
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"Vulnerable Boys: Short-term and Long-term Gender Differences in the Impacts of Adolescent Disadvantage "
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. October 2020,178: 424-448.
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"Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder a Disorder? In the Context of a Disaster, Not Really."
British Sociological Society, Everyday Society Blog. April 14, 2020.
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