Kathleen Marie Heath       Associate Professor of Anthropology    Educational Excellence Teaching Award, Arts & Sciences, 2000                           PH.D. University of Utah                             E-mail anheath@isugw.indstate.edu
                      Specialties:                                            Evolutionary Ecology                                  Life History                                                      Kin Selection                                                Behavior & Health                                         Mating & Parenting Strategies

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ANTHRO 202 – Multiple Lifeways (Gen Ed)
ANTHRO 202i – Multiple Lifeways (Gen Ed)
ANTHRO 204 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTRHO 301 – Emergence of Complex Societies
ANTHRO 303 – Aspects of Culture: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
ANTHRO 304 – Research Methods
ANTHRO 401 – Human Ecology
ANTHRO 402 – History of Anthropological Thought
ANTHRO 498 – The Human Discovery (GenEd, Capstone)                                        ANTHRO 499 – Senior Thesis                                                                               ANTHRO 4/510 – Independent Studies                                                                ANTHRO 4/510 – Climate & Human Adaptation

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Selected Publications

2004  Heath, K.M., & L.M. Gant.  Evolution, culture, and the processes of learning and memory.  Cognitive Technology (in press).

2004  Heath, K.M.  The effect of kin propinquity on infant mortality. Social Biology (in press).

2004  McCullough, J.M., & K.M. Heath.  Apocalypse buffered: The value of kin during crises. Chacmool Conference Proceedings (in press).

1999  Heath, K. M.  Book Review:  1999, S. A. LeBlanc. Prehistoric warfare in the American Southwest. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press. In:  Journal of Utah Archaeology 12: 71-72.

1999  Heath, K. M. Micro-botanical and micro-refuse analysis of flotation samples from Weston Canyon Rockshelter.  Tibiwa 27(1):60-64.

1998  Heath, K. M., and C. Hadley.  Dichotomous male reproductive strategies in a human polygynous society: mating versus parental effort. Current Anthropology 39(3):369-374.

Selected Publications in Review

Heath, K. M., and L. M. Gant.  Risky sexual behavior as an adaptation to HIV/AIDS.  

Gant, L. M., K. M. Heath, G. G. Ejikeme.  Early motherhood, high mortality, and HIV/AIDS rates in Sub-Saharan Africa.

McCullough, J. M., K. M. Heath, and J. D. Fields.  Culling the cousins: kingship, kinship, and competition in Mid-Millennial England.

Selected Abstracts

2003  Schlomer, G., V. Sheets, and K. Heath.  Parental Manipulation of Romantic Partner Choice in the U. S.  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Lincoln, NE. 

2002  Heath, K. M., J. M. McCullough, and J. D. Fields.  Daughters, Sisters, Wives, and the Making of Male Alliances. Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Rutgers, NJ. 

2001  Intigrinova, T., and K. M. Heath.  Traditions and Future: Land Care in Buryat Culture.  The Mongolian Society Fortieth Anniversary Meeting, Bloomington, IN. 

2000  Heath, K. M., and T. Intigrinova.  Revisting Pastoralists as Conservationists:  Why Do Pastoralists Seasonally Move?  Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amherst College, MA.