Steven J. C. Gaulin earned his undergraduate degree with a double major in anthropology and psychology from U. C. Berkeley, and his doctorate in biological anthropology from Harvard.  He has been a Professor of both Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, and is currently a Professor of Integrative Anthropological Sciences at U. C. Santa Barbara.  He has two cross-fertilizing research interests: the evolution of sex differences in human anatomy, physiology, cognition and behavior; and evolutionary psychology.  His research involves a wide range of field and laboratory techniques and has been published in books and journals that span evolutionary theory, ecology, anthropology, psychology and philosophy of science.  He is senior author of a leading textbook in evolutionary psychology, editor of a reader in biological anthropology, and junior author of a book on women’s fat metabolism.  He recently completed a ten-year term as Co-editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

John R. Weeks is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University, Clinical Professor of Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, and a Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He holds a doctorate in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. His textbook, Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Publishing, 2011) is now in its 11^th edition and has been the best-selling text in the field since it first came out in 1978. He has also published more than 130 papers and chapters in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is on the editorial boards of the Annals of the Association of American Geography, GeoJournal, and the Journal of Minority Health, and is the Historian of the Population Association of America.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2016-2021. Adolescent pregnancy and social networks in rural Honduras. 5K01HD087551. John R. Weeks, Mentor to Holly Shakya (UCSD School of Medicine).

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 2012-2016. Douglas Stow, PI, John R. Weeks, Co-Principal Investigator. The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change Through Analysis of Multi-Scale and Multi-Temporal Satellite Image Data. $900,000.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Land Use/Cover Change Grant (LULCC). 2012-2015. The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change Through Analysis of Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Satellite Image Data. PI: Doug Stow; co-PIs: David López-Carr, John Weeks, Li An. $993,000. 

Verta Taylor is a sociologist whose research focuses on gender, social movements, sexuality, and women’s health. She is the author of 15 books and edited volumes and over 100 scholarly articles on women’s and lesbian and gay movements, which have made important insights into rethinking the conditions associated with collective action, the role of activist networks, emotions, and collective identity.  Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the American Psychological Association Foundation, among others. Taylor was the 2011 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Jessie Bernard Award, and in 2008, she received the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Movements and the American Sociological Association’s Simon and Gagnon Award for the Lifetime of Scholarly Contributions to the Study of Sexuality. Her current research focuses on the same-sex marriage movement, the cultural outcomes of the gay and lesbian movement, and sexual fluidity and queer identity among college women.

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Shelly Lundberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics and the Leonard Broom Professor of Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, Fellow and past President of the Society of Labor Economists, a past President of the European Society of Population Economics and a Research Fellow at IZA. She served as Chair of the AEA’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession from 2016 to 2018 and as AEA Vice-President in 2021. Lundberg’s research is focused in labor economics, demographic economics, and the economics of the family, including issues such as discrimination, inequality, family decision-making and the intra-household allocation of resources. She has studied decision-making by children, the effects of child gender on parental behavior, the location decisions of married couples, the impact of government-provided care for the elderly on the labor supply of adult children, the economic returns to psychosocial traits, and the gender gap in educational attainment. Recently, she has written about the barriers to increasing women’s participation in the economics profession and on gender economics more broadly.

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Michael Gurven’s research focuses on the biodemography of the human lifespan and its implications for understanding development, aging, intergenerational transfers and family organization. He has also studied social and economic behavior among foragers and forager-farmers, with a view to understanding proximate and ultimate explanations for the diversity of pro-social behaviors that help smooth consumption and reduce mortality. He is a founder and director of the NIH/NIA-supported Tsimane Health and Life History Project, a 22+ year longitudinal study of health, aging and chronic diseases in transitioning Amerindians.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

National Institutes of Health/NIA, R01, “The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging” (Joint PI: Gurven, Kaplan). $1,250,000.