Need To Know Basis: Understanding Female Genital Cutting

What factors do parents consider when they weight the choice to have their girls cut? How is information about women’s cut status shared across communities? How does this inform our understanding of the cultural mechanisms underpinning the continuance of the practice?

The Evolutionary Demography of Religion

Does social support improve maternal and child outcomes? And what role does belonging to a religious group play in promoting social networks and cooperation?

Kailee and two nurses assess a child’s fine motor development

Anthropology of Childhood

Taught at the 200 level

RFP team shares early results of wave 1 in Keneba

Advanced Statistics - Multivariate

Taught at the graduate level

Laure and Jainaba visiting with a participant in the women’s garden

Alieu takes anthropometrics as children watch on, the Gambia

Tumbulu interviewing a participant, the Gambia

Mortality bias in growth

The purpose of this project is to reflect on the likely magnitude of mortality bias in growth in the past. Are archaeological skeletal samples of juveniles representative of their living peers?

Estimating the juvenile biological profile

The purpose of this project is to develop and test methods for estimating various parameters of the juvenile biological profile for use in both bioarchaeological and forensic contexts