Faculty Member

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• Erin Vogel
• Professor, SAS
• Specialization: Primate feeding ecology, functional morphology, digestive efficiency, protein balance, and energetics, the evolution of cooperation and coalition formation; Costa Rica, Central America; Central Kalimantan and Sumatra, Indonesia.
• Degree and University: PhD Stony Brook University, NY 2004
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• Office: Room 209B Biological Sciences Building, Douglass Campus
• Office Hours: Spring 2025: Monday 3:45-4:45 or send email for appointment
• Phone: 848-932-9277
• https://erinvogelphd.wordpress.com/erins-bio/

ONGOING RESEARCH:

My research interests cover a broad array of topics that revolve around the central theme of how primates are able to acquire the food resources they need for survival. As a primate dietary ecologist, I am interested in the factors that influence food acquisition and diet selection in non-human primates. In particular, I am interested in how primates have adapted to maximize energy intake, in face of variable environments. I answer research questions revolving around diet selection and energy acquisition in non-human primates by examining the behavior, morphology, and physiology of my study animals within an ecological context.

Current Research Projects

1. Digestive efficiency, protein balance, and energetics in non-human primates
2. Understanding the factors that affect geographic variation in orangutan diet selection
3. Diet selection and foraging efficiency in non-human primates
4. Functional ecology and the evolution of hominoid craniodental morphology
5. Coalitions and the evolution of cooperation

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

PUBLICATIONS:

Articles in Refereed Journals:

Donati, G., Arrigo-Nelson, S.J., Balestri, M., Boinski, S., Bollen, A., Bridgeman, L.L., Campera, M., Derbe, A., Epplet, T.M., Hohmann, G., Kinnaird, M., Kowalewski, M., Lahann, P., McLennan, M.R., Nekaris, A.K.I., Nijman, V., Ostner, J., Polowinsky, S.Y., Schulka, O., Schwitzer, C., Stevenson, P.R., Talebi, M.G., Tan, C., Vogel, E.R., Wright, P.C., and Ganzhorn, J.U. In press. Low levels of fruit nitrogen as drivers for the evolution of Madagascar’s primate communities. Scientific Reports.

Glowacka, H., McFarland, S.C., Vogel, E.R., Stoinski, T.S., Ndagijimana, F., Tuyisingize, D., Mudakikwa, A., Schwartz, G.T. Online. Toughness of the Virunga mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) diet across an altitudinal gradient. American Journal of Primatology.

Smith, T.M., Austin, C., Hinde, K., Vogel, E.R., and Arora, M. 2017. Cyclical nursing patterns in wild orangutans. Science Advances. Vol. 3, no. 5, e1601517; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601517

Vogel, E.R., Alavi, S.E. *, Utami-Atmoko, S.S., van Noordwijk, M.A., Bransford, T.D., Erb, W.M., Zulfa, A., Sulistyo, F., Farida, W.R., Rothman, J.M. 2017. The nutritional ecology of wild Bornean orangutans in a peat swamp habitat: effects of age, sex, and season. American Journal of Primatology 79:e22618.

Schuppli, C., Forss, S.F., Meulman, E.J, Zweifel, N., Lee, K.C., Rukmana, E., Vogel, E.R., van Noordwijk, M.A., van Schaik, C.P. 2016. Development of foraging skills in two orangutan populations: needing to learn or needing to grow? Frontiers in Zoology 13:43: 1-17.

Coiner-Collier, S. *, Scott, R.S., Chalk, J., Cheyne, S.M., Constantino, P., Dominy, N.J., Elgart, A.A., Glowacka, H., Loyola, L.C., Ossi-Lupo, K., Raguet-Schofield, M., Talebi, M.G., Sala, E.A., Sieradzy, P., Taylor, A.B., Vinyard, C.J., Wright, B.W., Yamashita, N., Lucas, P.W., and Vogel, E.R. 2016. Primate dietary ecology in the context of food mechanical properties. Journal of Human Evolution 98: 103-118.

Lucas, P.W., Vogel, E.R., Yamashita, N. 2016. Symposium of food properties and primates. Journal of Human Evolution 98: 1-4.

Marzec, A.M., Kunz, J.A., Falkner, S., Utami-Atmoko, S.S., Alavi, S.E., Moldawer, A., Vogel, E.R., Schuppli, C., van Schaik, C.P., van Noordwijk, M.A. 2016. The dark side of the red ape: Male-mediated lethal female competition in Bornean orangutans. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 70 (4):459-466.

Laird, M.F. *, Vogel, E.R., Pontzer, H. 2016. Chewing efficiency and occlusal functional adaptation. Journal of Human Evolution 93:140-149.

Chalk, J., Wright, B.W., Lucas, P.W., Schuhmacher, K.D. Richmond, B.G., Vogel, E.R., Fragaszy, D., Visalberghi, E., and Izar, P. 2016. Age-related variation in the mechanical properties of food processed by Sapajus libidinosus. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145(1):1-10.

Harrison, M.E., Zweifel, N., Husson, S.J., Cheyne, S.M., D’Arcy, L.J., Harsanto, F.A., Morrogh-Bernard, H.C., Purwanto, A., Rahmadt, Santiano, Vogel, E.R., Wich, S.A., van Noordwijk, M.A. 2016. Disparity in onset timing and frequency of flowering and fruiting events in two Bornean peat-swamp forests. Biotropica 48(2):188-197.

Vogel, E.R., Harrison, M.E., Zulfa, A., Bransford, T.D. *, Alavi, S.E. *, Husson, S., Morrogh-Bernard, H. , Santiano, Firtsman, T., Utami-Atmoko, S.S., van Noordwijk, M.A., Farida W.R. 2015. Nutritional differences between two orangutan habitats: implications for population density. PLoS One. 10(10): e0138612.

Vogel, E.R., Zulfa, A. *, Hardus, M. Wich, S.A., Dominy, N.J, and Taylor, A.B. 2014. Food mechanical properties, feeding ecology, and the mandibular morphology of wild orangutans. Journal of Human Evolution. 75: 110-124.

Chalk, J. and Vogel, E.R. 2012. Insights into primate dietary ecology: methods and theory. International Journal of Primatology. 33(3): 515-519.

Vogel, E.R., Knott, C.D., Crowley, B.E. , Blakely, M.D. , Larsen, M., Dominy, N.J. 2012. Bornean orangutans on the brink of protein bankruptcy. Biology Letters. 8(3): 333-336.

Vogel, E.R., Crowley, B.E. , Knott, C.D., Blakely, M.D. , Larsen, M., Dominy, N.J. 2012. A method for measuring nitrogen balance in free ranging primates. International Journal of Primatology. 33(3): 567-587.

Lucas, P.W., Constantino, P.J., Vogel, E.R., Chalk, J., Talebi, M., Wagner, M. 2012. Measuring the toughness of primate foods and its ecological value. International Journal of Primatology. 33(3): 598-610.

Vogel, E. R., Crowley, B. E., Knott, C. D., Blakely, M. D., Larsen, M., Dominy, N. J. A method for measuring nitrogen balance in free ranging primates. In press. International Journal of Primatology

Lucas, P.W., Constantino, P.J., Vogel, E.R., Chalk, J., Talebi, M., Wagner, M. Measuring the toughness of primate foods and its ecological value. In press. International Journal of Primatology.

Crowley, B. E.,Thorén, S^., Rasoazanabary, E., Vogel, E.R., Barrett, M.A., Zohdy, S., Blanco, M.B., McGoogan, K.C., Arrigo-Nelson, S.J., Irwin, M.T., Wright, P.C., Radespiel, U., Godfrey, L.R., Koch, P.L., and Dominy, N.J.In press.Geographic isotopic variation in mouse lemur (Microcebus) populations. Journal of Biogeography.

Wich, S., Vogel, E., Larsen, M. Frederiksson, G. Leighton , M., Yeager, C., Brearley, F., van Schaik, C., Marshall, A. 2011. Forest fruit production is higher on Sumatra than on Borneo. PLoS ONE. 6(6): e21278.

Vogel, E. R., Janson, C.H. 2011. Quantifying primate food abundance and distribution for socioecological studies: An objective consumer-centered method. International Journal of Primatology.32: 737-752.

Bastian, M.L.,Zweifel, N., Vogel, E.R., Wich, S.A., van Schaik, C.P. 2010. Diet traditions in wild orangutans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143(2): 175-187.

Ganzhorn, J.U., Arrigo-Nelson, S., Boinski, S., Bollen, A., Carrai, V., Derby, A., Donati, G., Koenig, A., Kowalewski, M., Lahann, P., Norscia, I., Polowinsky, S. Y., Schwitzer, C., Stevenson, P.R., Talebi, M.G., Tan, C., Vogel, E. R., Wright, P.C. 2009. Possible fruit protein effects on primate communities in Madagascar and the Neotropics. PLoS ONE. 4(12): e8253.

Vogel, E. R., Haag, L., Mitra-Setia, T., van Schaik, C. P. and Dominy, N. J. 2009. Foraging and ranging behavior during a fallback episode: Hylobatesalbibarbis and Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii compared. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.140:716–726.

Ross, C. F., Washington, R.L., Eckhardt, A., Reed, D. A., Vogel, E.R., Dominy, N .J., Machanda, Z. P. 2009. Ecological consequences of scaling of chew cycle duration and daily feeding time in Primates. Journal of Human Evolution 56:570-585.

Stamatopoulos, G., Sengupta, A. Vogel, E. R., and C. H. Janson. 2009. A game-theoretic model of within-group coalition formation in non-human primates. Journal of Bioeconomics11(2):165-183.

Harrison, M.E., Vogel, E.R., Morrogh-Bernard, H.C., van Noordwijk, M.A. 2009. Methods for calculating dietary composition compared: A case study using orangutans. American Journal of Primatology71:353–358.

Dominy, N.J., Vogel, E.R., Yeakel, J.D., Constantino, P., Lucas, P.W. 2008. The mechanical properties of plant underground storage organs and implications for the adaptive radiation and resource partitioning of early hominins. Evolutionary Biology 35(3): 157-175.

Taylor, A.B., Vogel,E.R., Dominy, N.J. 2008. Masticatory biomechanics and food mechanical properties in large-bodied hominoids.Journal of Human Evolution.55(4): 604-616.

Vogel E.R., van Woerden J.T., Lucas, P.W., UtamiAtmoko, S.S., van Schaik C.P, &Dominy N.J. 2008. Functional ecology and evolution of hominoid molar enamel: Pan troglodytesschweinfurthii and Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii.Journal of Human Evolution 55(1): 60-74.

Vogel, E.R., Neitz, M., and Dominy, N.J. 2007.Effect of color vision phenotype on fruit and energy intake rates of wild white-faced capuchins, Cebus capucinus.Behavioral Ecology.18(2): 292-297.

Vogel, E.R., Munch, S.B., &Janson, C.H. 2007. Understanding escalated aggression over food resources in white-faced capuchin moneys.Animal Behaviour 74:71-80.

Vogel, E.R. and Janson 2007. Predicting the frequency of food related agonism in white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus), Using a novel focal tree method. American Journal of Primatology 69(5):533-550.

Vogel, E.R. 2006. The Complete Capuchin: the Biology of the Genus Cebus, A Review (book review). Quarterly Review of Biology 81(4): 406-407.

Vogel, E.R. and Fuentes-Jiménez A. 2006. Rescue behavior in white-faced capuchin monkeys during an intergroup attack: support for the Infanticide Avoidance Hypothesis. American Journal of Primatology 68: 1012-1016.

Talebi, M.G., Pope, T.R., Vogel E.R., Neitz, M, and N.J. Dominy. 2006. Polymorphism of visual pigment genes in the muriqui (Primates, Atelidae). Molecular Ecology 15(2): 551- 558.

Vogel, E.R. 2005. Rank differences in energy intake rates in white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus): the effects of contest competition. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 58: 333-344.

van Schaik, C.P., Pandit, S.A., Vogel, E.R. 2004. A model for within-group coalitionary aggression among males. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 57:101-109.

Rose, L.M., Perry, S., Panger, M., Jack, K., Manson, J., Gros-Louis, J., MacKinnon, K., and Vogel, E. 2003. Interspecific interactions between white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) and other species: Preliminary Data from three Costa Rican sites. International Journal of Primatology 24(4):759-796.

Panger, M., Perry, S., Rose, L.M, Gros-Louis, J., Vogel E., MacKinnon, K., Baker, M. 2002. Cross-site differences in foraging behavioral of white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 119:52-66.

Wilson, W.H. and Vogel, E.R. 1997. The foraging behavior of Semipalmated Sandpipers in the Upper Bay of Fundy: Stereotyped or prey sensitive? Condor 99:206-210.

Book Chapters

Vogel, E.R. andDominy, N.J. 2010. Measuringecologicalvaraiablesforprimate field studies. In Campbell, C.J., Fuentes, A., MacKinnon, K.C., Panger, M., Bearder, S.K. (eds). Primates in Perspective, 2^nd Edition.Oxford University Press. Pp. 367-377.

van Schaik, C.P, van Noordwijk, M.A. Vogel, E.R. 2009. Ecological sex differences in wild orangutans. Wich, S.A., UtamiAtmoko, S., MitraSetia, T., van Schaik, C.P. (eds). Orangutans: Geographic Variation in in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation. Oxford University Press.pp. 256-268.

Janson, C.H. and Vogel, E.R. 2006. Estimating the effects of hunger on primate social ecology. InHohmann, G., Robbins, M., and Boesch, C. (eds).Feeding Ecology in Apes and Other Primates. Cambridge University Press.pp. 285-312.

van Schaik, C.P., Pandit, S.A., Vogel, E.R. 2006. Toward a general model for male-male coalitions in primate groups. In Kappeler, P.M. & van Schaik (eds) Cooperation in primates: comparative perspectives. Springer Verlag: Heidelberg. pp 151-171.

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• Ulla D. Berg
• Associate Professor, Latino & Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, SAS
• Specialization: Migration, Transnationalism, regimes of (im)mobility, immigrant detention and deportation, media and performance, race and affect, visual anthropology, ethnographic filmmaking, Latin America, Andes, U.S. Latinxs populations and communities.
• Degree and University: Ph.D, New York University, 2007
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• Office: RAB-315; LSH A-260

RESEARCH STATEMENT

As a sociocultural and visual anthropologist specializing in Latin America and in Latino communities in the U.S., my research focuses on historical and contemporary processes and experiences of migration and mobility within Latin America and between this region and the United States. My first monograph Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. (NYU Press, 2015), employs ethnographic methods and anthropological theories of exchange, circulation, and social and racial formations, to examine the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru and migrate to the United States and how they strive to communicate across multiple borders. By exploring how racialized and indigenous migrant populations through a variety of communicative practices create new renderings of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they face throughout the migration process, the book contributes to understanding technology’s role in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. Mobile Selves was translated into Spanish and published in 2016 by the Institute for Peruvian Studies in Lima, under the title Sujetos Móviles: Raza, Migración y Pertenencia en Peru y los Estados Unidos.

My current work centers on the detention and deportation of South American migrants from the United States in the Obama and Trump eras. I examine the current deportation regime as a set of social practices occurring over time and as a transnational social system which begins long before the migrant is apprehended and which continue long after an individual is removed from the US and exiled to their country of citizenship. By examining ethnographically the experiences and long-term effects of deportation and the dynamics of post-deportation life in both rural and urban communities in Ecuador and Peru, I seeks to expand the scope of anthropological studies of immigrant detention and deportation to consider the role of multiple actors and infrastructures in both “sending” and “receiving” locations.

I am also a practicing filmmaker and have directed, produced and edited the documentary Waiting for Miracles (2003), which follows a Peruvian Catholic brotherhood in NYC as it prepares for its yearly procession honoring the Lord of Miracles. My camera work is also featured in the film La Fiesta de la Asunción de Sarhua [The Festival of Our Lady of Assumption in Sarhua], directed by Luis Millones and Delia Ackerman (2011), among other productions. I am currently working on two documentary film projects: the first is an hour-long portrait of the Peruvian poet Domingo de Ramos– a film project which draws on visual material that I have shot over a twelve year-period. The second film is a collaboration with Zaire Dinzey-Flores, about memory and infrastructures in the Caribbean. This latter film traces the travels and imprints of Juan Vicente Dinzey Hazle, an octogenarian Dominican “cocolo” civil engineer of West Indian descent, and follows his laboral trajectory which traverses the ruins/remnants of a sugar mill in a West Indian enclave outside of San Pedro de Macorís in Dominican Republic, to technical training in the public University in Santo Domingo amidst political dictators and unequal racial landscapes, to the migration to New York City and later Puerto Rico. This short film explores how space—cities, buildings, infrastructure, built forms—are housed in the constructor’s labor—in its everyday experiences and in its landscapes of memories. 

 
            Fieldwork in Paterson, NJ 2004

EDUCATION

2007    Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology, New York University.
2005    Certificate Program in Culture and Media, New York University.
2001    M.A. in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
1998    B.A. in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

COURSES OFFERED

070:603 Personhood (grad seminar)
070:505 History of Anthropological Theory (grad seminar)
070:407 Documenting Latinx Lives: Video Production Seminar
070:368 Anthropology of Mass Media
070:101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
595:307 Latinx Ethnography
595:298 Latinxs and Migration
595:101 Introduction to Latinx Studies

LINKS

The Prize of Belonging.
http://affective-societies.de/2017/aus-der-forschung/the-prize-of-belonging/

Ulla Berg on her new book Mobile Selves. Interview with Ilana Gershon https://campanthropology.org/2017/09/11/ulla-berg-mobile-selves/
Interview Series “Seen Through a Spatial Lens … – Spatializations in Global Times”
Interview with Prof. Ulla Berg (Rutgers University, USA). Leipzig, August 2017.
Blog for Transregional Research: http://trafo.hypotheses.org/7485

Ulla Berg's video production class featured in Rutgers Today, in "Rutgers Students Training their lenses on Latino Lives."
Transnational New Jersey
Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

I am currently directing the Center for Latin American Studies at Rutgers (2018-2021).

I am collaborating since 2014 with First Friends of NJ and NY

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Books

• 2016    Sujetos Móviles: Raza, Migración y Pertencia en el Perú y en los Estados Unidos. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
• 2015    Mobile Selves: Migration, Race, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. New York University Press.
• 2013    Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas. Eds. Ulla D. Berg and Robyn Rodriguez. London and New York: Routledge
• 2005    El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diasporicas en la Migración Peruana [The Fifth Region: Transnationality and Diasporic Formations in Peruvian Migration]. Eds. Ulla Berg and Karsten Paerregaard. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

Editor Special Journal Issues

• 2020   Pathways: A Tribute to Thomas A. Abercrombie. Cultural Anthrpology's Theorizing the Contemporary Series. Curated by Ulla D. Berg, Sandra Rozental, and Emily Yates-Doerr.
• 2013   Guest editor with Robyn Rodriguez of special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power on transnational and diasporic citizenship. Vol. 20, Issue 6 (December 2013).
• 2010    Guest editor with A. Takenaka and K. Paerregaard of special issue of Latin American Perspectives on Peruvian Global Migrations (Vol. 37 No. 5, September, 2010)
• 2006    Guest editor with Roberto G. Varea of e-misférica 3.2. (Issue titled Borders: Hybrid Imaginaries / Fractured Geographies): http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/index.php.

Articles

• 2019 Documenting Latinx Lives: Visual Anthropology and Latinx Studies. Latino Studies 17(1):108-117. DOI 10.1057/s41276-018-00170-y
• 2017 “Cuerpos Confinados, Almas Resilientes: Un ensayo fotográfico.” Co-authored with Jennifer Castro. Iconos, Number 57 (May 2017).
• 2017 “La racialización del afecto: una propuesta teórica”, co-authored with Ana Ramos-Zayas. Etnografías Contemporáneas, Año 3, Nº 5, pp. 216-276.
• 2015.   “Racializing Affect: A Theoretical Proposition.” Co-authored with Ana Ramos-Zayas. Current Anthropology, Vol. 56, No. 5 (October 2015)
• 2013    “Introduction: Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas.” Co-authored with Robyn Rodriguez. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol. 20(6): 649-664.
• 2010    El Quinto Suyo: Contemporary Nation-building and the Political Economy of Emigration in Peru. In Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 121-    136
• 2010    Introduction: Peruvian Migration in a Global Context. Co-authored with A. Takenaka and K. Paerregaard in special issue of Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 37 No. 5.
• 2008    In Defense of Community? Long-distance Localism and Transnational Political Engagement between the US and the Peruvian Andes. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 34(7):1091-1108.
• 2006    ‘El Quinto Suyo’ from Above and from Below: State Agency and Transnational Political Practices Among Peruvian Migrants in the US and Europe. Co-authored with Carla Tamagno. In Latino Studies, vol. 4(3): 258–281

Selected Book Chapters

• 2020 The Afterlife of U.S. Disciplining Institutions: Transnational Structures of (Im)mobility among Peruvian deportees. In Rúa and Ramos-Zayas (eds): Critical Diálogos in Latino Studies, NYU Press (forthcoming 2020).
• 2018 “Affect, Race, and Generative Fieldsites in Urban Anthropology.” Co-authored with Ana Ramos-Zayas. In Setha Low (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City, (Chapter 6).
• 2016 Percepción Remota: Estructuras de sentimiento en la comunicación a larga distancia. In I. Kummels (ed): Los medios audiovisuales en el contexto transnacional México-EE.UU. Berlin: Edición Tranvía. Verlag Walter Frei.
• 2014 “Domingo de Ramos: De la soledad poética a la choledad cosmopólita.” In In-Sufrido Fuego: Poesía Reunida (1988-2011) by Domingo de Ramos, pp. 91-94. Lima: Fondo Editorial del Congreso de la República.
• 2013    Migration Brokers and Document Fixers: The Making of Migrant Subject in Urban Peru. In Nyberg-Sørensen and Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds): The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration. London and New York: Routledge).
• 2012    Video-Culturas Itinerantes: Visualidad y Performance en el Espacio Diaspórico Peruano [Itinerant Video-cultures: Visuality and Performance in the Peruvian Diaspora]. In Gisela Cánepa (ed.): Imaginación Visual y Cultura en el Perú. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP.

FILMS

• Domingo de Ramos. Documentary-in-progress on the Peruvian poet Domingo de Ramos (director)
• La Fiesta de la Asunción de Sarhua [The Festival of Our Lady of Assumption in Sarhua]. Documentary directed by Luis Millones and Delia Ackerman, cinematography by Ulla Berg (Lima: Asamblea Nacional de Rectores). View full documentary: https://vimeo.com/96767462 (password: ullaberg)
• Waiting for Miracles (2003). Documentary that follows a Peruvian Catholic brotherhood as it prepares for its yearly procession honoring the Lord of Miracles in NYC. This film explores the power of faith in the lives of immigrants in New York City (Director, Producer, and editor. NYU, Culture and Media).

Online Multimedia Projects

• Documenting Latinx Lives. On-line archive of the student documentary films made in the video production seminar “Documenting Latino Lives” at Rutgers University (available at: https://vimeo.com/album/5141847)
• Sarhua – Land of Mountains and Colors [Sarhua – Tierra de Montañas y Colores], on-line performance archive curated in 2006 with Luis Millones, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/atahualpa/)
• The Death of the Inca Atahualpa [La Muerte del Inca Atahualpa], on-line     performance archive curated in 2004 with Luis Millones, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/sarhua/)

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• Susan M. Cachel
• Professor, SAS
• Specialization: Physical anthropology, human and nonhuman primate evolution, evolutionary theory, morphology.
• Degree and University: PhD, U Chicago, 1976
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• Office: BIO-203C
• Office Hours: Spring 2025: Wednesday 1-3 pm or by appointment
• Phone: 848-932-9270
• Courses: 01:070:356 Human Variation

 Susan Cachel's Bibliography For Physical Anthropology

Education:                   Ph.D., University of Chicago 

Specialization:             Primate Evolution, Paleoanthropology, Evolutionary Theory, Primatology, Vertebrate Paleontology

Honors:

Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “incisive contributions to hominization theory, the role of nutritional fat in human occupation of high latitudes, and primate evolution,” December 2009

Plenary Session Member Prize, 75th Anniversary of the founding of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2005

Books:

2015. Fossil Primates. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. 299 pp. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2006. Primate and Human Evolution. Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology. 488 pp. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Selected papers:
2017. Energetics of the nasal cavity: The impact of total energy expenditure on cranial airway morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162 (Supplement S64):278 (abstract). V. Mason, R. Scott, & S. Cachel.

2016. Burial law impedes scientific discovery. Science 352:1526.

2012. Human tool behavior is species-specific and remains unique. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35(4):20 doi: 10.1017/50140525X11001981.

2009. Arboreal origins of hominid bipedalism. Abstracts of the 9th North American Paleontological Convention, p. 105 (abstract). Cincinnati Museum Center. Scientific Contributions no. 3.

2008. Does hominid bipedalism arise from arboreal locomotion on flexible branches? American Journal of Physical Anthropology S46:75. (abstract). (S. Cachel & M. Crisfield)

2007. Novelty transmittal and innovative species. Solicited commentary on “Animal innovation defined and operationalized.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(5):407-408. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X07002385.

2006. Use of modern Arctic peoples in modeling past behaviors. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 42:72 (abstract).

Selected Book Chapters:

2013a. “Natural history intelligence and hominid tool behaviour,” In: Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology, J. Wilkins & K. Anderson, eds., pp. 13-29. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.

2013b. “The paleobiology of Homo erectus: Implications for understanding the adaptive zone of this species.” In Companion to Human Evolution, S. McBrearty, ed. San Diego, CA: Cognella, Inc. Reprinted in a print and E-book form (S. Cachel & J.W.K. Harris).

2012a. “Human Evolution, Theories of: The Origins of Human Behavior,” in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd edition, N.A. Silberman,
Editor-in Chief, vol. 2, pp. 34-36. New York: Oxford University Press.

2012b. “Humans, Modern: Peopling of the Globe,” in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd edition, N.A. Silberman, Editor-in-Chief,
vol. 2, pp. 47-51. New York: Oxford University Press.

2009. “Using sexual dimorphism and development to reconstruct mating systems in ancient primates,” In: Primatology: Theories, Methods and Research, E. Potocki and J. Krasiński, eds., pp. 75-93. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

2006. “The behavioural ecology of early Pleistocene hominids in the Koobi Fora region, East Turkana Basin, northern Kenya,” In: Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, E.C. Robertson, J.D. Seibert, D.C. Fernandez, & M.U. Zender, eds., pp. 49-59. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. (S. Cachel & J.W.K. Harris)

Selected Book Reviews:

2019. Review of Ethnoprimatology. A Practical Guide to Research at the Human-Nonhuman Primate Interface. K.M. Dore, E.P. Riley, and A. Fuentes, eds. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. Anthropos (114.2019/2; Nov. 2019).

2018. Review of Crossing the Human Threshold. Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Middle Pleistocene. M. Pope, J. McNabb, and C. Gamble, eds. New York: Routledge. PaleoAnthropology 2018:47-48.

2017. Review of Human Paleontology and Prehistory: Contributions in Honor of Yoel Rak. A. Marom and E. Hovers, eds. Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media. PaleoAnthropology 2017:104-106.

2016. Review of The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany. M.N. Haidle, N.J. Conard, and M. Bolus, eds. Dordrecht: Springer Science + Business Media. PaleoAnthropology 2016:164-166. Doi: 10.4207/PA.2016.REV 154.

2013. Review of Early Miocene Paleobiology in Patagonia. High-Latitude Paleocommunities of the Santa Cruz Formation. S.F. Vizcaíno, R.F. Kay, and M.S. Bargo, eds. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. PaleoAnthropology 2013:85-87. doi: 10.4207/PA.2013.REV138. www.paleoanthro.org/journal

2011. Review of The First Four Million Years of Human Evolution. Special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Biological Sciences), vol. 365:3263-3410. PaleoAnthropology 2011:284-286. www.paleoanthro.org/journal.

2009. Review of Homo erectus. Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, Ethiopia, W.H. Gilbert and B. Asfaw, eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. PaleoAnthropology 2009:169-170. www.paleoanthro.org/journal.

2008. Review of Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins, J.G. Fleagle and C.C. Gilbert, eds., Springer Science, Developments in Primatology (2008), International Journal of Primatology 29:1383-1384. DOI: 10.1007/s10764-008-9288-z.

2006. Review of Debating Humankind’s Place in Nature, 1860-2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology. R.G. Delisle, Pearson Prentice Hall (2006). American Journal of Human Biology 18:867-869.

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• Lee Cronk
• Distinguished Professor, SAS
• Specialization: Human behavioral ecology, human evolutionary ecology; Africa, Caribbean
• Degree and University: PhD, Northwestern U, 1989
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• Office: Biological Sciences Building, Rm. 309
• Office Hours: Sp 2025: Monday noon-2 pm or by appointment
• Phone: (848) 932-9285
• Courses: 01:070:328 Evolution and Cooperation

Dr. Cronk is also affiliated with the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, the Perceptual Science Graduate Training Program, and the Program in Evolutionary Biology. He is a member of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the International Society for Human Ethology.

Dr. Cronk is also co-director, with C. Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University, of the Human Generosity Project. For more information, click here: http://humangenerosity.org

Click here for Dr. Cronk's author page on Amazon.com.

Read about Dr. Cronk's research in Rutgers Focus.

Click here to read Dr. Cronk's Meeting at Grand Central Blog.

Research and Teaching Interests

Human evolutionary ecology, including behavioral ecology, cultural ecology, and cognitive ecology; signaling theory; culture; cooperation; Africa, Caribbean.

Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, Northwestern University, 1989.

Dissertation: The Behavioral Ecology of Change Among the Mukogodo of Kenya.

M.A., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1983.

B.A., Anthropology, with distinction, Northwestern University, 1982.

Employment History

2006 - present Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University.

2012-2013 Member, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ

2008-2009 Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

1999 – 2006 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University.

1995-1999 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University.

1989-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University.

Selected Publications

Cronk, Lee. 2015. Human cooperation: Evolutionary approaches to a complex phenomenon. Handbook on Evolution and Society: Toward an Evolutionary Social Science, edited by Jonathan Turner, Richard Machalek, and Alexandra Maryanski, pp. 441-459. St. Paul, MN: Paradigm Publishing.

Hao, Yan, C. Athena Aktipis, Dieter Armbruster, and Lee Cronk. 2015. Need-based transfers on a network: A model of risk-pooling in ecologically volatile environments. Evolution and Human Behavior 36(4):265-273.

Soler, Montserrat, Frank Batiste, and Lee Cronk. 2014. In the eye (and ears) of the beholder: receiver psychology and human signal design. Evolutionary Anthropology 23:136-145. PDF: soler et al on receiver psych EA 2014.pdf (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

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Cronk, Lee, and Beth L. Leech.  2013.  Meeting at Grand Central:  Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press.

Cronk, Lee. 2013. Human behavioral ecology. In Encyclopedia of Social Theory in Anthropology. Richard Warms and Jon McGee, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Wagh, Kshitij, Aatish Bhatia, Gabriela Alexe, Anupama Reddy, Vijay Ravikumar, Michael Seiler, Michael Boemo, Ming Yao, Lee Cronk, Asad Naqvi, Shridar Ganesan, Arnold J. Levine, and Gyan Bhanot. 2012. Lactase persistence and lipid pathway selection in the Maasai. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44751. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

De Aguiar, Rolando, and Lee Cronk.  2011.  Stratification and supernatural punishment:  Cooperation or obedience?  Religion, Brain and Behavior 1(1):73-75. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Aktipis, C. Athena, Lee Cronk, and Rolando de Aguiar. 2011. Risk-pooling and herd survival: An agent-based model of a Maasai gift-giving system. Human Ecology 39:131-140. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Gerkey, Drew, and Lee Cronk. 2010. Why do we need to coordinate when classifying kin? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33:385-386. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee, Drew Gerkey, and William Irons.  2009.  Interviews as experiments: Using audience effects to examine social relationships.  Field Methods. 21:331-346. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Campbell, Lorne, Lee Cronk, Jeffry Simpson, Alison Milroy, Carol Wigington, and Bria Dunham.  2009.  The association between men’s ratings of women as desirable long-term mates and individual differences in women’s sexual attitudes and behaviors.  Personality and Individual Differences 46:509-513. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee, and Helen Wasielewski.  2008.   An unfamiliar social norm rapidly produces framing effects in an economic game.  Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 6(4):283-308. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee.  2007.  Boy or girl: Gender preferences from a Darwinian point of view.  Reproductive Biomedicine Online 15(suppl. 2):21-30.

Cronk, Lee, and Bria Dunham.  2007.  Amounts spent on engagement rings reflect aspects of male and female mate quality.  Human Nature 18(4):329-333. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee.  2007.  The influence of cultural framing on play in the trust game: A Maasai example.  Evolution and Human Behavior 28:352-358. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. and Andrew Gerkey. 2007. Kinship and descent. In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, edited by Robin Dunbar and Louise Barrett. Pp. 463-478. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [click here]

Cronk, Lee.  2006.  Intelligent design in cultural evolution.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29:352-353.

Cronk, Lee. 2006. Behavioral ecology and the social sciences. In Missing the Revolution: Evolutionary Psychology for Social Scientists, edited by Jerome Barkow. Pp. 167-185. Oxford: Oxford University Press [click here]

Cronk, Lee. 2005. The application of animal signaling theory to human phenomena: Some thoughts and clarifications. Social Science Information/Information sur les Sciences Sociales 44(4):603-620. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 2005. Comment on “Signaling Theory, Strategic Interaction, and Symbolic Capital” by Rebecca Bliege Bird and Eric Alden Smith. Current Anthropology 46(2):239-240.

Cronk, Lee. 2004. Continuity, displaced reference, and deception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27(4):510-511. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 2004. From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [click here]

Cronk, Lee. 2002. From true Dorobo to Mukogodo Maasai: Contested ethnicity in Kenya. Ethnology 41(1):27-49.

Cronk, Lee, and Shannon Steadman. 2002. Tourists as a common-pool resource: A study of dive shops on Utila, Honduras. In Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach, edited by Jeffrey Cohen and Norbert Dannhaeuser. Volume 19 of the Society for Economic Anthropology Monographs. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee, and D. Bruce Dickson. 2001. Public and hidden transcripts in the East African highlands. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20:113-121. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 2001. Anthropology and the evolutionary study of human behavior. Research in Biopolitics 8:1-30. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee, Napoleon Chagnon, and William Irons, eds. 2000. Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. [click here]

Irons, William, and Lee Cronk. 2000. Twenty years of a new paradigm. In Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective, edited by L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and W. Irons, pp. 3-26. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 2000. Female-biased parental investment and growth performance among the Mukogodo. In Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective, edited by L. Cronk, N. Chagnon, and W. Irons, pp. 203-221. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee, and Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., eds. 2000. Through the Looking Glass: Readings in Anthropology. Second edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. [click here]

Cronk, Lee. 1999. That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. [click here]

Cronk, Lee. 1999. Gethenian nature, human nature, and the nature of reproduction: A fantastic flight through ethnographic hyperspace. In Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts, edited by Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner, pp. 205-218. New York: Paragon. [click here]

Cronk, Lee. 1998. Ethnographic text formation processes. Social Science Information/ Information sur les Sciences Sociales 37(2):321-349. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 1995. Is there a role for culture in human behavioral ecology? Evolution and Human Behavior 16(3):181-205. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 1995. Comment on "Gene-Culture Coevolutionary Theory: A Test Case" by Kevin N. Laland, Jochen Kumm, and Marcus W. Feldman. Current Anthropology 36(1):147-148.

Cronk, Lee. 1994. Group selection's new clothes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17(4):615-616. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 1994. Sacrificing reality for the primitive accumulation of models.  Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 4:185-1889.

Cronk, Lee. 1994. Evolutionary theories of morality and the manipulative use of signals. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 29(1):81-101.[pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 1994. The use of moralistic statements in social manipulation. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 29(3):351-355. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 1993. Parental favoritism toward daughters. American Scientist 81:272-279. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee, and Beth Leech. 1993. "Where's Koisa?" The World & I 8(1):612-621.

Cronk, Lee. 1992. Old dog, old tricks. The Sciences 32(1):13-15.

Cronk, Lee. 1991. Preferential parental investment in daughters over sons. Human Nature 2(4):387-417. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 1991. Human behavioral ecology. Annual Review of Anthropology 20:25-53.

Cronk, Lee. 1991. Intention vs. behaviour in parental sex preferences among the Mukogodo of Kenya. Journal of Biosocial Science 23:229-240.

Cronk, Lee. 1991. Wealth, status, and reproductive success among the Mukogodo of Kenya. American Anthropologist 93:345-360. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 1991. Hypothesis testing and social engineering. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14(2):305-306.

Cronk, Lee. 1990. Comment on "Explaining biased sex ratios in human populations: A critique of recent studies," by Daniela Sieff. Current Anthropology 31(1):35-6.

Cronk, Lee. 1990. Stratification, bridewealth, and marriage patterns among the Mukogodo and their neighbors, Laikipia District, Kenya. Research in Economic Anthropology 11:89-109.

Cronk, Lee. 1990. Family trust The Sciences 30(6):10-12. [pdf]

Cronk, Lee. 1989. Low socioeconomic status and female-biased parental investment: The Mukogodo example. American Anthropologist 91(2):414-29. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 1989. From hunters to herders: Subsistence change as a reproductive strategy among the Mukogodo. Current Anthropology 30(2):224-34. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)

Cronk, Lee. 1989. Strings attached. The Sciences 29(3):2-4.

Cronk, Lee. 1988. Spontaneous order analysis and anthropology. Cultural Dynamics 1(3):282-308. [pdf] (This archived document is no longer maintained and may not meet accessibility standards. To request content in an accessible format, contact us.)