Alan H. Goodman

Alan H. Goodman is a biological anthropologist and author. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut, and a research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.

Career

He served as president of the American Anthropological Association from 2005 to 2007. He has been a professor of anthropology at Hampshire College since 1985 where he is a former dean of the School of Natural Science, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dean of Faculty.[1] He is a founding member of the Five College Consortium "Culture, Health and Science " program and currently teaches courses in Hampshire's School of Natural Science, including Human Variation: Race, Science, and Politics, and Sex, Death and Teeth: Life Stories Recorded in Teeth.[2]

Selected publications

His books include:

  • AH Goodman, Y Moses, and JL Jones. (2012). Race: Are We So Different? Wiley-Blackwell, est. 286 pages.
  • DL Dufour, AH Goodman and G Pelto (eds.). (2012). Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition, 2e. (Oxford University Press, 544 pages.
  • J. Jones, M.M. Overvbey, AH Goodman, C. Mukhopadhyay, Y. Moses and A Beckrich. (2007). RACE: A Teacher’s Guide for Middle School. American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA, 68 pages.
  • G. Ellison and A. Goodman (eds.) (2006). The Nature of Difference: Science, Society and Human Biology. Taylor and Francis, London.
  • AH Goodman and TL Leatherman (eds.). (1998). Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology. University of Michigan Press.

His recent articles include:

  • J Farrell, D Amarasiriwardena, AH Goodman and B Arriaza. (2013). Bioimaging of trace metals in ancient Chilean mummies and contemporary Egyptian teeth by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). "Microchemical Journal" 106:340–346.
  • TL Leatherman and AH Goodman. (2011). Critical Biomedical Approaches in Medical Anthropology. In. M. Singer and P Ericson (eds.) "A Companion to Medical Anthropology". Wiley-Blackwell. pp 29–48.
  • TL Leatherman, AH Goodman and Tobias Stillman. (2010). Changes in Stature, Weight and Nutritional Status with Tourism-Based Economic Development in the Yucatan Economics and Human Biology 8(2):153–158.
  • AE Dolphin and AH Goodman. (2009). Maternal Diets, Nutritional Status, and Zinc in Contemporary Mexican Infants’ Teeth” Implications for Reconstructing Paleodiets. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140:399–409.

Notes
  1. "Alan Goodman Is Appointed Hampshire College Interim Dean of Faculty". American Anthropological Association. 26 May 2009. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
  2. "Alan Goodman, Professor of Biological Anthropology". Hampshire College. Retrieved 2014-12-15.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.