CarolWorthman, PhD,
currently
holds theSamuelCandlerDobbs
Chair in the Department of
Anthropology, EmoryUniversity,
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 inbiological anthropologyatHarvardUniversity, having
also studied endocrinology at UCSD and neuroscience at
MIT under Jack Geller and RichardWurtman, 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, reproductiveecology, andbiocultural basesof
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/wakepatterns in thecontext of acontrolled
experiment withVietnamese villages lacking both television
andelectricity.
CAROLWORTHMAN, PHD
Sleep “in theWild”: Insights from
ComparativeCross-cultural Research
Monday, June 2, 2014 | 1:45pm – 2:45pm
RoomL100H
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