Officers

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Brien Ashdown

Past President

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology

American University of Sharjah

P.O. Box 26666

American University of Sharjah

Department of International Studies (Psychology)

Sharjah, UAE

bashdown@aus.edu

Research interests: Evidence-based program evaluations for NGOs in Guatemala, adolescent social development in Guatemala, and the interaction of religion and sexuality.

Ted Bartholomew

Ted Bartholomew

President

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology & Department of Africana Studies

Scripps College

1030 Columbia Ave.

Claremont, CA

tbarthol@scrippscollege.edu

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

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Dan Benyshek

President-Elect

Professor & Chair

Department of Anthropology

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

4505 S. Maryland Parkway

Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003

(702) 895-2070

daniel.benyshek@unlv.edu

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.

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Helen Elizabeth Davis

Vice President

Assistant Professor

Arizona State University

hedavis8@asu.edu

Website

Research interests: Transitioning populations; foragers; formal education & environmental learning; spatial cognition & abstract reasoning; pedagogy; evolution of childhood; embodied capital; cognitive development & cognitive aging

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Ginny Q. Zhan

Treasurer

Professor of Psychology

Kennesaw State University

402 Bartow Ave. NW

Kennesaw, GA 30144

gzhan@kennesaw.edu

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

Casey Roulette

Newsletter Editor

Assistant Professor

Biological Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Dr.

San Diego, CA 92182-6040

croulette@sdsu.edu

Research interests: Recreational drug use, parasitic and infectious diseases, cultural transmission, and health interventions.

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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

alyssa.crittenden@unlv.edu
Website

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

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Kristen Herlosky

Student & Media Rep

Ph.D. Student

Department of Anthropology

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

4505 S. Maryland Parkway

Las Vegas, NV 89154

herlosk4@unlv.nevada.edu

Research interests: The intersection of reproductive and maternal health, nutrition, and environmental stressors.

AREA REPRESENTATIVES

Psychology

Amanda Faherty

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Ithaca College

Social Science

Parminder Parmar

Associate Professor
Human Development and Family Studies
The Pennsylvania State University Scranton

Anthropology

(2/2020-2/2023)

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Jennifer Roulette

Adjunct Professor
Department of Anthropology
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego, CA 92182-6040
jroulette@sdsu.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

Hemalatha Ganapathy-Coleman

Bonnie Hewlett

Jill Brown

Alyssa Crittenden

Brien Ashdown