Bill Dressler (Professor)
Paper Presentation:
“Culture as a Mediator of Gene-Environment Interaction,” in the symposium “Stress
and Health From Genes to Culture: Genetic, Epigenetic, Developmental and
Biocultural Interactions” (organized by Bill Dressler and Jason DeCaro)
Jason DeCaro (Associate Professor)
Paper Presentation:
“What Constitutes a ‘Constitution?’ Biological Sensitivity, Canalization, and the
Biocultural Substrates of Differential Resilience,” in the symposium “Stress and
Health From Genes to Culture: Genetic, Epigenetic, Developmental and Biocultural
Interactions” (organized by Bill Dressler and Jason DeCaro)
Steve Kosiba (Assistant Professor)
Round Table Presentation:
“Animism and Authority in the Indigenous Americas,” in the symposium, “Sacred
Matter: Animism and Authority in the Indigenous Americas”
Lisa LeCount (Associate Professor)
Paper Presentation:
“Tangled Web: Classic Period Political Pragmatics on Naranjo’s Eastern Frontier in
the Mopan River Valley,” in the symposium, “Beyond the Familiar: Towards a
Pragmatic Model for Classic Maya Political Organization”
Chris Lynn (Associate Professor)
Paper Presentation:
“Anthropologists, Kids, and Careers: When Family is Strange and the Field Familiar,”
in the symposium, “Hidden Motivations and Glossed Justifications: Problems and
Priorities in Biocultural Field Research” (Organized by Jo Weaver and Chris Lynn)
Kathy Oths (Professor) and Hannah Smith (BA Current)
Poster Presentation:
“Ecological, Social, and Cultural Contributions to Rapid Secular Change in Child
Growth in Andean Peru”
Sonya Pritzker (Assistant Professor)
Paper Presentation:
“Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange: Reinventing Classical
Theories of Chinese Medical Psychology in Contemporary Beijing,” in the symposium, “Making Strange Traditions Familiar in Conventional and
Complementary Therapeutic Settings” (organized by Sonya Pritzker)
Sonya Pritzker (Assistant Professor)
Discussant in Open Meeting:
“Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM)
Group Open Business Meeting”
Tina Thomas (PhD Current)
Paper Presentation:
“The Social Ecology of HIV Risk Among Southern African American Female Youth,”
in the symposium, “Anthropology and HIV/AIDS: Has the Strange Become Too
Familiar?”
Jo Weaver (Assistant Professor)
Paper Presentation:
“Grappling with Race During Fieldwork,” in the symposium, “Hidden Motivations
and Glossed Justifications: Problems and Priorities in Biocultural Field Research”
(Organized by Jo Weaver and Chris Lynn)