Name Alan Goodman Role Author | Books Race: Are We So Different | |
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Alan H. Goodman is a biological anthropologist and the author/editor of numerous publications, including Building a New Biocultural Synthesis (1999), Genetic Nature/Culture (2003), 978-0-8493-2720-9 The Nature of Difference (2006), and "Nutritional Anthropology: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Nutrition" (2012). He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the University of Connecticut, and a research fellow in stress physiology at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
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Career
He served as president of the American Anthropological Association from 2005 to 2007 and has been an important contributor to many of the organization's projects, including RACE: Are We So Different?. He is also the author of the companion book (2012) for the project. 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. 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.
Selected publications
His books include:
Food and Nutrition, 2e. (Oxford University Press, 544 pages.
Teacher’s Guide for Middle School. American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA, 68 pages.
Taylor and Francis, London.
Perspectives on Human Biology. University of Michigan Press.
His recent articles include:
Chilean mummies and contemporary Egyptian teeth by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). "Microchemical Journal" 106:340-346.
Singer and P Ericson (eds.) "A Companion to Medical Anthropology". Wiley-Blackwell. pp 29–48.
with Tourism-Based Economic Development in the Yucatan Economics and Human Biology 8(2):153- 158.
Infants’ Teeth” Implications for Reconstructing Paleodiets. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 140:399-409.