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My research blends the impacts of inequality on health with the acknowledgement that human biology is shaped by our evolutionary heritage. I am interested in blending evolution and embodiment - what evolutionary mechanisms allow us to track our social and physical environments to improve fitness, balanced by a need to document the health consequences of tracking marginalized environments. To achieve this goal I have focused primarily on women's reproductive and psychosocial health. Finally, I remain committed to developing theoretically and practically relevant research that matches the circumstances of East African pastoralists' lives.

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Courses
  • WHGP
    Women's Health in Global Perspective

  • DM
    Darwinian Medicine

  • SDHABEA
    Stress, Development, and Health: A Biological Embedding Approach

  • CAHB
    Contemporary Approaches to Human Biology

  • HE
    Human Evolution

Grants
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    Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $22.7K
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    Doctoral Dissertation Research: Allomaternal Care and Early Life Development

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2018

    $19.7K
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    Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2017

    $90.4K
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    Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2016

    $37.2K
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    Collaborative Research: Vulnerable transitions and Cumulative Embodied Stress Among Teens in High-Risk, High Stakes Pastoralism

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $154.8K
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    Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Culture Change, Women, and Diabetes in the United Arab Emirates

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2009

    $15.0K
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    Collaborative Research: The Violence of "Small Wars," Poverty, and Health in Three Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2008

    $168.1K
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    Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: The Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality in Rural Zambia

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2008

    $15.0K
News
  • School of Anthropology Celebrates Centennial

    2015

  • How Food Shapes Who We Are

    2015

  • UA-led Study Grapples With Health Effects of Low-intensity Warfare

    2009

  • Renowned Activist to Speak on Sudan Crisis

    2005

Publications (49)
Recent
  • Ageing and physical function in East African foragers and pastoralists

    2020

  • My own corner of loneliness: Social isolation and place among Mexican immigrants in Arizona and Turkana pastoralists of Kenya.

    2020

  • Intersections of Insecurity, Nurturing, and Resilience: A Case Study of Turkana Women of Kenya

    2019

  • High levels of objectively measured physical activity across adolescence and adulthood among the Pokot pastoralists of Kenya

    2019

  • Adolescent health in a conflict zone of Northern Kenya

    2018

  • A precarious developmental niche: How insecurity shapes nurturing strategies among Turkana women of Kenya

    2018

  • Low-intensity violence and the social determinants of adolescent health among three East African pastoralist communities.

    2018

  • Objectively Measured Physical Activity among the Pokot Agro-Pastoralists of Kenya

    2017

  • Comparative nutritional indicators as markers for resilience: A case study of the impacts of low-intensity violence among three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya

    2016

  • Suicide in three East African pastoralist communities and the role of researcher outsiders for positive transformation: a case study

    2015

  • Suicide in Three East African Pastoralist Communities and the Role of Researcher Outsiders for Positive Transformation: A Case Study.

    2015

  • Suicide and Troubled Mourning in Three East African Pastoralist Communities

    2015

  • Developmental systems and inequality: linking evolutionary and political-economic theory in biological anthropology

    2014

  • Dynamics of human biocultural diversity: A unified approach. By Elisa J. Sobo. 356 pp. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 2012. $39.95 (paper), $39.95 (e‐book)

    2014

  • A biocultural framework for examining maternal cravings and aversions among pastoral women in East Africa

    2012

  • Health Experiences of Elder Pastoralists in a Context of Endemic Violence

    2012

  • Unpacking resilience in extreme circumstances: a mixed-method, longitudinal case study from Turkana pastoralists of northern Kenya

    2011

  • 20 Pregnancy and Lactation

    2010

  • Does less autonomy erode women's health? Yes. No. Maybe

    2010

  • Documenting the health consequences of endemic warfare in three pastoralist communities of northern Kenya: a conceptual framework

    2010

  • Embodying violence and the biocultural approach: How can we revise our models to better inform global health disparities?

    2010

  • Evaluating the cultural value of elder women, communal responsibility for children, and implications for reproductive success.

    2007

  • Refining biocultural models: A case study from Zambia.

    2007

  • Incorporating psychosocial health into biocultural models: preliminary findings from Turkana women of Kenya

    2006

  • Understanding women s burdens: preliminary findings on psychosocial health among Datoga and Iraqw women of northern Tanzania.

    2006

  • Introduction. Fetal origins of developmental plasticity.

    2005

  • Maternal stress and fetal responses: evolutionary perspectives on preterm delivery

    2005

  • Fetal origins of developmental plasticity

    2005

  • The biosocial consequences of life on the run: a case study from Turkana District, Kenya

    2004

  • Life history perspectives on maternal stress and fetal developmental plasticity.

    2004

  • Examining women's psychosocial stress among three subsistence populations of East Africa.

    2003

  • Human biology of pastoral populations

    2003

  • Cattle raiding, cultural survival, and adaptability of East African pastoralists

    2003

  • Using the ethnographic record to assess cross-cultural recognition of developmental stages.

    2002

  • Understanding psychosocial health among reproductive age women from Turkana District, Kenya and Mbulu District, Tanzania

    2002

  • What does love have to do with it? Perceived stress levels and health in love marriages vs. arranged marriages in a tribal population of India.

    2002

  • Meaning of morning sickness still unsettled

    2001

  • The evolutionary and ecological context of human pregnancy

    2001

  • Pregnancy outcome for nomadic Turkana pastoralists of Kenya

    2000

  • The nutritional consequences of pregnancy sickness: a critique of a hypothesis

    2000

  • Infant, child, and adolescent growth, and adult physical status

    1999

  • Age, reproductive history, seasonality, and maternal body composition during pregnancy for nomadic Turkana of Kenya.

    1999

  • A test of a model using developmental stage instead of chronological age for collecting and analyzing data on infant and child mortality.

    1999

  • An alternative method for assessing early mortality in contemporary populations

    1998

  • The determinants of pregnancy outcome for nomadic Turkana women of Kenya

    1996

  • Pregnancies at Risk: Women's Health and Nutrition in Turkana District, Kenya

    1995

  • Drought Relief Food, Dietary Changes and Nutritional Status of Pregnant, Nomadic Women from Turkana District, Kenya

    1994

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