Current Lab Members

Alyssa Crittenden, Ph.D.

Director of Lab
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Mail Code: 1017
Phone: 702-895-0225
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Kristen Herlosky, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor 
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Mail Code: 3063
Phone: 702-748-4393
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A’liciah Carr

Ph.D. Student
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Miriam Kopels

Ph.D. Student
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Current Research Projects

Graduate student, Trevor Pollom, using a mounted compass to measure wayfinding ability among child foragers during the summer field season, 2017.

Graduate student, Trevor Pollom, using a mounted compass to measure wayfinding ability among child foragers.

  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation (SCAN) among children and juveniles. In collaboration with the SCAN project at the University of Utah
  • Anthropometric measurements of physical growth and macro-level indicators of health and nutrition status
  • Foraging distance and estimates of energy expended – before and during nutrition transition

  • Measurement of diet composition data – before and during nutrition transition
  • 24-hour dietary recalls
  • Estimation of food and water insecurity
  • Hydration strategies and water quality analysis
Alyssa Crittenden conducting 24 hour dietary recall interviews for a study on oral health and nutrition.

Alyssa Crittenden conducting 24 hour dietary recall interviews for a study on oral health and nutrition.

Graduate student, Kristen Herlosky, collecting child interviews for SCAN, August 2017

Graduate student, Kristen Herlosky, collecting child interviews.

  • Ethnography of labor and delivery among Hadza foragers in Tanzania
  • Post-partum health and pain management among the Hadza

  • Continuity and change in reproductive practices of Hadza women undergoing economic transition

Laboratory Alumni

  • Jacob White, PhD (2024)
    Dissertation: Mixed Methods Approach to Assess "Placental Opioid-Enhancing Factor" Activity Within Alternative Health Contexts of Human Maternal Placentophagy
  • Kristen Herlosky, PhD (2023)
    Dissertation: Maternal Health in the Context of Social, Political, and Economic Change among Hadzabe Foragers of Tanzani
  • Trevor Pollom, PhD (2022)
    Dissertation: Hunter-Gatherers in Context: Hadzabe People and Early Nutrition Transition
  • Kayleigh Meighan, MA (2021)
    Thesis: Prevalence and predictors of postpartum co-sleeping practices after midwife-led births in the United States
  • Stephanie Schnorr, Postdoctoral Fellow (2021)
    Project: Relevance of Positive Selection on Human Salivary Amylase Gene
  • Marlena Gatlin, BA (2020)
    RAMP Project: Maternal Happiness and Unhappiness in Hadza Foragers of Northern Tanzania
  • Spencer Holmes, BA (2020)
    Project: Documenting the Diversity and Functions of Music in Hadza Life
  • Mayisha Smalls, BA (2020)
    Project: Documenting the Diversity and Functions of Music in Hadza Life
  • Roger Arenas, PhD (2019) Dissertation: Virtually healthy: Using Virtual Ethnography to Survey Healthcare Seeking Practices of Online Transgender Individuals
  • Alina Lindquist BA (2019)
    Honors Thesis: Emic Perspectives on Ritualistic Ingestion of Entheogenic Substances
  • Alexia Janda BA (2019)
    Honors Thesis: An Examination of the Relationship Between Acculturative Stress and Eating and Body Image Disorders Among Asian Americans

  • Elle Ford, BA (2018)
    Anthopometric Measurements of Physical Growth among Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Children (McNair Fellowship)
  • Mariah Clanton, BA (2018)
    Keep Calm and Carry On: Infant Carrying Practices and Motor Development (AANAPISI Fellowship)
  • Celeste Giordano, PhD (2017)
    Aging and Fermentation as Adaptive Food Management Strategies in the Arctic
  • Sharon Young, PhD (2016)
    Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Postpartum Maternal Affect, Health, and Recovery
  • Laura Gryder, MA (2015)
    Effects of Human Maternal Placentophagy on Maternal Postpartum Iron Status
  • Jessica Parsons BA (2014)
    Honors Thesis: A Dollar Per Milligram: An Exploration of the Appalachian Opiate Abuse Epidemic from a Critical Medical Anthropology Perspective
  • Kilian Wells, BA (2013)
    Activity Budgets and Energy Expenditure among Hunter-Gatherer Children: Results from the Hadza of Tanzania (NIH IDeA Fellowship)
  • Kara Osborne, BA (2013)
    Evolution of the Human Diet: What We Can Learn from Hadza Hunter-Gatherers (McNair Fellowship)
  • Diane Hardgrave, PhD (2010)
    The effects of Cellular Theta Breathing Meditation on Cell Mediated Immune Response: A Controlled, Randomized Investigation of Altered Consciousness and Health
  • Allison Cantor, MA (2010)
    Impacts on Maternal Diet in a Transitional Community in Rural Costa Rica: Potential Implications for the Developmental Origins of Obesity-related Disorders
  • Julie Kachinski , MA (2010)
    Use of an Animal Model to Explore Prenatal Predictors of Insulin and Glucose Metabolism in Southwestern Alaskan Yupiit
  • Lauren Emes BA (2008)
    The Effect of Diabetina Tea Consumption on Glycosylated Hemoglobin, Fasting Glucose and Lipid Levels, and BMI in Normoglycemic Individuals (NSF EPSCoR Project)
  • Anel Rojas BA (2008)
    Honors Thesis: The ‘Young Hunter Hypothesis’: An Anthropological Cross Cultural Assessment
  • Luz Andrea Pfister, MA (2006)
    Paleoepidemiology of Bacterial Infections among Prehistoric Human Populations in Northern Chile: an Ancient DNA Approach
  • Karmen Boelke BA (2004)
    Lower Carbohydrate / Higher Protein Eating Plans: Possible Effects on Psychological and Emotional States (McNair Fellowship)

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