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Alyssa Crittenden is Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Dean of the Graduate College, and Professor of Anthropology at UNLV. She earned her Ph.D. from UC San Diego (2009) and B.A. from UC Santa Cruz (2001). An interdisciplinary scholar bridging anthropology and human biology, her research examines nutrition and maternal-infant health in evolutionary context, with fieldwork among Hadza foragers.
Research Focus: Crittenden investigates how subsistence transitions impact health outcomes, combining ethnographic methods with physiological measures. Her work addresses: evolutionary mismatch theory, cooperative childrearing, microbiome co-evolution, and dietary shifts among transitioning foragers.
- Laboratory: Nutrition and Reproduction Laboratory
- Honors: Conrad Arensberg Award (AAA 2021)
Publications reflect cross-disciplinary approaches to human behavior, with recent work on emotion expression, microbiome ethics, and juvenile foraging patterns across 12 societies. Methodological strengths include mixed-methods field studies integrating behavioral observation, biological sampling, and participatory research.
