Ted Bartholomew
Past President
Department of Psychology & Department of Africana Studies
Scripps College
1030 Columbia Ave.
Claremont, CA
Research interests: Culture and mental health, diverse beliefs about psychopathology, culture and psychological treatment, positive and multi cultural psychotherapy processes, refugee and immigrant mental health and well-being, methodology
Dan Benyshek
President
Professor & Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003
(702) 895-2070
Research interests: Developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD), political ecology, cardiometabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, indigenous-complementary-alternative medicine, placentophagy, public health policy, Native North America, community-based participatory research.
Helen Elizabeth Davis
President Elect
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Institute of Human Origins
Arizona State University
Temple, AZ
Research interests: Transitioning populations; foragers; formal education & environmental learning; spatial cognition & abstract reasoning; pedagogy; evolution of childhood; embodied capital; cognitive development & cognitive aging
Ginny Q. Zhan
Treasurer
Professor of Psychology
Kennesaw State University
402 Bartow Ave. NW
Kennesaw, GA 30144
Research interests: Dr. Zhan’s research mainly focuses on comparative studies between East Asian and American college students on developmental topics, for example: mate preference and aging attitudes. She’s also interested in examining Asian American cultural identities.
Casey Roulette
Newsletter Editor
Assistant Professor
Biological Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182-6040
Research interests: Recreational drug use, parasitic and infectious diseases, cultural transmission, and health interventions.
Alyssa Crittenden
Parliamentarian and Archivist
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003
(702) 895-3709
Research interests: Analyses of attributes of personal names; cultural variation; territorial loss, ownership, and natural resources; sympathetic and intellectual empathic choices; rational and emotional choices
Jennifer_Roulette
Student & Media Rep
Ph.D. Student
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154
Research interests: The intersection of reproductive and maternal health, nutrition, and environmental stressors.
AREA REPRESENTATIVES
Jennifer Roulette
Anthropology
Adjunct Professor
Department of Anthropology
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182-6040
FORMER PRESIDENTS
1970s
Beatrice Whiting
Herbert Barry III
John Roberts
William Lambert
Barbara Ayres
Fred Strodtbeck
Albert Pepitone
John Whiting
1980s
Marshall Segall
Melvin Ember
Leigh Minturn
Ronald Rohner
Paul Rosenblatt
Carol Ember
Joel Aronoff
Marc Ross
Alice Schlegel
Roy Malpass
1990s
R. Lee Munroe
Harry Triandis
Ralph Bolton
B. James Starr
Patricia Draper
Douglas Davis
Lew Hendrix
Susan Abbott
Uwe Gielen
Garry Chick
2000s
Harry Gardiner
William Divale
Judith Gibbons
Douglas Raybeck
Lewis Aptekar
Robert Veneziano
Juris Draguns
Douglas Caulkins
David W. Shwalb
William Divale
2010s
Ziarat Hossain
Deborah L. Best
William Jankowiak
Valerie Havill
Paul Ngo
Hemalatha Ganapathy-Coleman
Bonnie Hewlett
Jill Brown
Alyssa Crittenden
Brien Ashdown
Ted Bartholomew
Society for Cross-Cultural Research 