Jason DeCaro, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, is the director of DEHB.
Dr. DeCaro's
primary areas of research interest concern the intersections of cognitive,
ecocultural,
and biological anthropology, with special foci on child development,
stress, and physical
activity.
Christopher Dana Lynn, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, is co-director of the lab. Dr.
Lynn's research focuses on human behavioral ecology, the biological stress
response, signaling
theory,
and energetics.
The support of graduate students from
throughout the Department of Anthropology in
their masters or dissertation research is a central component of
DEHB's mission. Current graduate students:
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Achsah Dorsey. Achsah is an MA student interested in
developmental responses to stress among children, especially
sex-differentiated effects of nutritional stress.
(Advisor: J. DeCaro)
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Matt
Greenemeier. Matt is an MA student interested in
epigenetic pathways in inheritance.
(Advisor: J. DeCaro)
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Ross
Owens. Ross is an MA student with interests in
psychosocial stress among end-of-life patients, in particular with
regards to the types of end-of-life care they receive. (Advisor: J.
DeCaro)
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Becky
Read Wahidi. Becky is a doctoral student whose
research interests concern Marianism, and religious moderation of the
experience of
immigration-related stress.
(Advisor: J. DeCaro)
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Martina
Thomas. Martina is a doctoral student who did her masters
work
in
Mobile, Alabama concerning body image and obesity among Alabama African
American
girls
and their mothers. She is now developing her PhD proposal with a focus on
HIV knowledge and cultural models of HIV among African American
adolescents in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
(Advisor: J. DeCaro)
Whenever possible the lab also involves
undergraduate
students in its research projects. Contact Dr. DeCaro
to learn about current opportunities.