Faculty Publications, Presentations, and Other Scholarly Achievements

Aaron Blackwell

Grant:

NSF Cultural Anthropology BCS-1945740/1945725: Collaborative Research: Disentangling the effects of extrinsic mortality risk and energy availability on adolescent maturation. (PIs: Aaron Blackwell, Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, Angela Garcia $398,464; Start date: Sept. 15, 2020.)

Papers:

Talks:

  • Jaeggi, A, Blackwell, AD. Wealth, inequality, and health in a small-scale subsistence society. Club EvMed. 2021
  • Blackwell, AD, Sugiyama, LS, Cepon-Robins, TJ, Gildner, TE, Liebert, MA, Urlacher, SS, Madimenos, FC, Eick, GN, Snodgrass, JJ. 2021 Socio-ecological variation in pathogen disgust and protection against infection in a high pathogen environment. International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2021 Virtual Meeting, July 2021.
  • Sugiyama, LS, Cepon-Robins, TJ, Blackwell, AD*, Gildner, TE, Liebert, MA, Urlacher, SS, Madimenos, FC, Eick, GN, Snodgrass, JJ. 2021 Pathogen disgust sensitivity protects against infection and is calibrated to local socio-ecological conditions in a high pathogen environment. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 2021 Virtual Meeting, June 2021. *LSS was not available so ADB gave this presentation.
  • Ackerman, J, Tybur, J, Blackwell, AD. 2021 Pandemic psychology is not simply pathogen-avoidance psychology. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 2021 Virtual Meeting, June 2021.
  • Schneider-Crease, I, Blackwell, AD, Kraft, TS, Thompson, ME, Maldonado Suarez, I, Cummings, DK, Stieglitz, J, Kaplan, H, Snyder-Mackler, N, Gurven, M, Trumble, BC. 2021 Eosinophilia Inhibits Cytokine Responses to Viral and Bacterial Stimulations in a Subsistence Population in Bolivia. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2021 Virtual Meeting. April 2021. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174, 92-93.

John Blong

Grant:

2021-2022 Wenner-Gren Post PhD Research Grant for the project “Assessing sexual division of labor in the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene Great Basin through steroid analysis of human coprolites.”

Publications:

  • 2021 Blong, JC. Lithic Landscape of the Upper Susitna River Basin, Central Alaska Range. Alaska Journal of Anthropology.
  • 2021 Blong, JC, Shillito, L-M. Coprolite research: archaeological and paleoenvironmental potentials. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13(5):1–7.
  • 2020 Krasinski, KE, Blong, JC. Unresolved questions about site formation, provenience, and the impact of natural processes on bone at the Bluefish Caves, Yukon Territory. Arctic Anthropology 57(1):1–21.
Blong collecting samples at geoarchaeological dig site.
Collecting Geoarchaeological Samples

Archaeological Research at the Kelly Forks Work Center Site, Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, Idaho.

In the fall of 2021, John Blong and students from the Department of Anthropology participated in fieldwork at the Kelly Forks Work Center site in the Nez Perce–Clearwater National Forest, Idaho. The site is within the homelands of the Nez Perce Tribe, in an upland area traditionally important for late summer and early fall subsistence activities. The site contains evidence for continuous use over more than 12,000 years spanning the end of the last ice age through the historic period. The site offers an opportunity to investigate the antiquity of Nez Perce upland subsistence practices, seasonal land-use patterns, and the timing of the initial settlement of the southern Columbia Plateau. The 2021 research focused on geoarchaeological fieldwork to better understand how the site formed and the sequence of human occupation over time. This fieldwork is the start of a long-term research project at the site incorporating WSU students and members of the Nez Perce Tribe. The 2021 crew included Department of Anthropology undergraduate student Sam Neunzig, graduate students Darcy Bird, Taekyeong Kim, Tiffany Kite, Katy Leonard-Doll, and Garrett Toombs, and postdoctoral researcher Molly Carney. The anthropology team was joined by Becca Gustine, a graduate student in the WSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jordan Thompson, a graduate student in the University of Idaho Department of Culture, Society and Justice, and Justin Holcomb, a postdoctoral researcher at the Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas.

Julia Cassaniti

  • Cassaniti, J. 2021 Mindfulness or Sati? The Cultural Diversity of a Global Concept for Resilience and Mental Health. Journal of Global Buddhism, 21(1): 105-120. Part of a Special Issue on Buddhism and Resilience, Nalika Gajaweera and Darcie DeAngelo, eds.
  • Cassaniti, J. 2021 Up in Smoke: Cosmopolitical Ecologies and the Disappearing Spirits of The Land in the Haze Crisis of Southeast Asia. Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places of Power in Changing Environments. Riam Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger, and David Sneath, eds. London: Routledge. pp. 62-80.

Andrew Duff

Barry Hewlett

  • Bard, KA, Keller, H, Ross, KM, Hewlett, BS, Butler, L, Moysen, ST, and Matsuzawa, T. 2021   Joint Attention in Human and Chimpanzee Infants in Varied Socio-Ecological Contexts. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. NY: Wiley.
  • Broesch, T, Carolan, P, Cebiuglu, S, von Rueden, C, Boyette, A, Moya, C, Hewlett, B, Kline, M. 2021 Learning from others: Examining “Natural Observations” of children in six societies. Human Nature Special Issue Teaching and learning in foraging and transitioning populations. doi: 10.1007/s12110-021-09393

Rachel A. Horowitz

Tim Kohler

  • Kohler, TA. 2021 Public Architecture and Power in Pre-Columbian North America. Methods, Mounds, and Missions: New Contributions to Florida Archaeology, edited by Ann S. Cordell and Jeffrey M. Mitchem. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
  • Scheffer, M, van Nes, EH, Bird, D, Bocinsky, RK, Kohler, TA. 2021 Loss of resilience preceded transformations of pre-Hispanic Pueblo societies. PNAS Vol. 118 No. 18 e2024397118.

Tim Kohler remains active in retirement

Professor Emeritus Tim Kohler officially retired at the end of May 2021. He spent fall 2021 in Kiel, Germany, where he was a Johanna Mestorf Academy chair in prehistory at Christian-Albrechts-Universität. He is working mostly on extensions to his earlier work on wealth inequality in prehistory, supported by a recent NSF grant on which he collaborates with Amy Bogaard of Oxford University. The grant is run through the new Center for Archaeological Synthesis. He reports that autumn in Kiel is much wetter than in Pullman but not necessarily colder, even though Kiel is much farther north than Pullman.

Read about Kohler’s recent work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in WSU Insider.

Jeannette Mageo

Book cover: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Volume 11; Authenticity & Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries. Edited by Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft (image of person with Pacific Islander)

Book Chapters

  • 2021 American Colonial Mimicry: Cultural Identity and Being “Authentic” in Samoa. In Authenticity, Authorship, and Pacific Island Encounters, pp. 71-104.
  • Mageo, Jeannette and Bruce Knauft. 2021 Introduction: On Authoring and Authenticity.  In Authenticity, Authorship, and Pacific Island Encounters: New Lives of Old Imaginaries, edited by Jeannette Mageo and Bruce Knauft, pp. 1-58.  New York: Berghahn Press.
  • Mageo, Jeannette. 2020 “Defining New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming,” In New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming.  Jeannette Mageo and Robin Sheriff, eds., pp. 3-22.
  • Mageo, Jeannette. 2020 “Metaphors We Dream By: On the Nature of Dream Cognition.” In New Directions, pp. 53-71.

Mark Mansperger

  • Mansperger, M. 2021 Expressive Content Amidst Personal Malignment: Writing Op-Eds for the Tri-City Herald. Journal of Northwest Anthropology.

Courtney Meehan

  • Caffé, B, Fehrenkamp, BD, Williams, JE, Lackey, KA, Pace, RM, McGuire, MA, Blackwell, AD, McGuire, MK, Meehan, CL. 2021 Cross-cultural test of Trivers-Willard hypothesis in human milk immune factors: The INSPIRE Study. Boise State University, Northwest Evolution Ecology, and Human Behavior Symposium.
  • Pace RM, Williams JE, Järvinen KM, Belfort MB, Pace, CDW, Lackey KA, Gogel AC, Nguyen-Contant, P, Kanagaiah, P, Fitzgerald, T, Ferri, R, Young, B, Rosen-Carole, C, Diaz, N, Meehan, CL, Caffé, B, Sangster, MY, Topham, D, McGuire, MA, Seppo, A, McGuire, MK. 2021 Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, antibodies, and neutralizing capacity in milk produced by women with COVID-19. mBio 12:e03192-20.
  • Ruiz, L, Rubio, CA, García, CC, Jimenez, QE, Lackey, KA, McGuire, MK, Meehan, CL, Foster, JA, Sellen, DW, Kamau, KW, Kamundia, EW, Mbugua, S, Moore, SE, Prentice, AM, Gindola, D, Otoo, GE, Pareja, RG, Bode, L, McGuire, MA, Williams, J, Rodríguez, JM. 2021 Comparison of two approaches for the metataxonomic analysis of the human milk microbiome. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 11, 228.
  • McGuire, MK, Randall, AZ, Seppo, AE, Järvinen, KM, Meehan, CL, Gindola, D, Williams, JE, Sellen, DW, Kamau-Mbuthia, EW, Kamundia, EW, Mbugua, S, Moore, SE, Prentice, AM, Foster, JA, Otoo, GE, Rodríguez, JM, Pareja, RG, Bode, L, McGuire, MA and Campo, JJ. 2021 Multipathogen Analysis of IgA and IgG Antigen Specificity for Selected Pathogens in Milk Produced by Women from Diverse Geographical Regions: The INSPIRE Study. Front. Immunol. 11:614372.

Anne Pisor

Luke Premo

  • Lin, SC, Premo, LS. 2021 Forager mobility and lithic discard probability similarly affect the distance to raw material discard from source. American Antiquity 86:845-863.

Erin Thornton

  • 2021 Testing for Mississippian Period Turkey Management in the Archaeological Record of the Southeastern United States Thornton, E, Peres, T, Chase, KL, Kemp, BM, Frome, R, Manin, A, Basnett, L, McGrath, K, Speller, C, Reitz. American Antiquity 86(4),  pp. 794–814.

Shannon Tushingham