Faculty
The Institute Faculty Speakers Bureau lists full- and part-time faculty members, their areas of scholarly and professional expertise, who teach in the Institute and are interested and available as guest lecturers to classes, consultants to the community, and collaborators on projects.| Diana Sherry Scholar-In-Residence (2007) B.S., University of New Mexico; Ph.D., Harvard University Diana Sherry's scholarly interests involve understanding human behavior and biology from an evolutionary perspective. Her research focuses mainly on the relationship between nutritional ecology and endocrine physiology. As part of her dissertation, Dr. Sherry studied the effects of body weight and insulin levels on the reproductive hormones of American Samoan women within the context of a modernizing society. Other research topics include the study of dietary ecology in hunter-gatherer societies and the reproductive biology of wild chimpanzees in relation to seasonal resource availability. Recent publications have appeared in the American Journal of Human Biology and the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Diana Sherry's scholarly pursuits also include expanding case-based teaching methods for the biological sciences and examining the role of evolutionary biology in modern society and everyday life. |
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Deirdre Conlon, Scholar-In-Residence Diana Sherry, Scholar-In-Residence |
Mirta Tocci, Artist-in-Residence Erika Williams, Scholar-In-Residence |
| Departmental Faculty Who Teach in the Institute | |
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John Anderson Elizabeth Baeten Flora Gonzalez Roger House Mark Leccese |
Wyatt Oswald Melinda Robins Murray Schwartz James Sheldon Stephen Shipps |
| Part Time Faculty | |
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Amy Aroopala Matthew Battles Steven Beeber Gaynor Blandford James Byrne Claudia Castaneda Robert Dulgarian Lance Eaton |
Nigel Gibson John Hodge Alden Jones Cynthia Miller Roseanne Montillo Jason Roush Meta Wagner |
