Brien Ashdown
President
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
300 Pulteney St.
Geneva, NY 14456
(315) 781-3000
Research interests: Evidence-based program evaluations for NGOs in Guatemala, adolescent social development in Guatemala, and the interaction of religion and sexuality.
Research interests: Evidence-based program evaluations for NGOs in Guatemala, adolescent social development in Guatemala, and the interaction of religion and sexuality.
Ted Bartholomew
Vice-President
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
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
Denise Lewis
President-Elect
Associate Professor
Human Development and Family Science
University of Georgia
405 Sanford Dr.
Athens, GA, 30602
(706) 542-0254
Research interests: Aging issues relevant to marginalized populations and on household production of health in elder-headed households.
Alyssa Crittenden
Past President
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S. Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003
(702) 895-3709
Research Interests: Small-scale societies; foragers; reproductive ecology; female life history; cooperative breeding; evolution of childhood; prosociality
Katelyn Poelker
Secretary
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Hope University
35 East 12th Street
Holland, MI 49423
Research interests: Adolescents’ socio-emotional development and how culture shapes developmental processes. She is particularly interested in working with Guatemalan and other Latin American youth, including at-risk children and adolescents.
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.
Herbert Barry
Parliamentarian and Archivist
Professor Emeritus
University of Pittsburgh
552 N. Neville St. #83
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2830
Office: 534 Salk Hall
Phone: 412-648-8551
Fax: 412-383-7436
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
Kristen Herlosky
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.
Helen Elizabeth Davis
Webmaster
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Research interests: Transitioning populations; foragers; formal education & environmental learning; spatial cognition & abstract reasoning; pedagogy; evolution of childhood; embodied capital; cognitive development & cognitive aging
AREA REPRESENTATIVES
Psychology
(2/2018-2/2019)
Maria Rosario de Guzman
Associate Professor
Child, Youth & Family Studies
University of Nebraska
135 Mabel Lee Hall
Lincoln, NE, 68588
mguzman2@unl.edu
(402) 472-9154
Social Science
(2/2018-2/2019)
Aileen Garcia
Assistant Professor
Department of Counseling
& Human Development
South Dakota University
1175 Medary Ave
Brookings, SD, 57006
aileen.garcia@sdstate.edu
(650) 688-4121
Anthropology
(2/2016-2/2019)
Peter Peregrine
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Lawrence University
711 E Boldt Way
Appleton, WI 54911
peter.n.peregrine@lawrence.edu
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
Bonnie Hewlett
Jill Brown