Carol Worthman, PhD,
currently
holds the Samuel Candler Dobbs
Chair in the Department of
Anthropology, Emory University,
where she also directs the
Laboratory for Comparative
Human Biology. After taking a
dual undergraduate degree in
biology and botany at Pomona
College, Dr. Worthman took her
PhD in biological anthropology at Harvard University, having
also studied endocrinology at UCSD and neuroscience at
MIT under Jack Geller and Richard Wurtman, respectively.
She joined the nascent anthropology faculty at Emory
University in 1986, and established a pioneering laboratory
advancing the use of biomarkers in population research.
Professor Worthman takes a biocultural approach to
pursuit of comparative interdisciplinary research on human
development, reproductive ecology, and biocultural bases of
differential mental and physical health. She has conducted
cross-cultural biosocial research in thirteen countries,
including Kenya, Tibet, Nepal, Egypt, Japan, Papua New
Guinea, Vietnam and South Africa, as well as in rural,
urban, and semi-urban areas of the United States. For the
past 20 years, she has collaborated with Jane Costello
and Adrian Angold in the Great Smoky Mountains Study,
a large, longitudinal, population-based developmental
epidemiological project in western North Carolina. Current
work includes a study of the impact of television on
adolescent sleep/wake patterns in the context of a controlled
experiment with Vietnamese villages lacking both television
and electricity.
CAROL WORTHMAN, PHD
Sleep “in the Wild”: Insights from
Comparative Cross-cultural Research
Monday, June 2, 2014
1:45pm – 2:45pm
Invited Lecturers
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