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Address: Employment MICHAEL A. LITTLE April 2020 Address: Department of Anthropology Binghamton University, State University of New York Binghamton, New York 13902-6000 Telephone: (Office) 607-777-2737 (Home) 607-748-2092 (Cell) 607-323-4034 Email: [email protected] Education: B.A. (1962), M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) in Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University Employment: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, the Ohio State University, 1967-70; the State University of New York at Binghamton, 1971-73 Scientific Coordinator of the Human Adaptability Component, International Biological Program and Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, the Pennsylvania State University, 1972-73 Associate Professor of Anthropology, the State University of New York at Binghamton, 1973-81 Professor of Anthropology, the State University of New York at Binghamton, 1981-98 Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, the State University of New York at Binghamton, 1998-2018 Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, the State University of New York at Binghamton, 2018- Present Awards: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant-in-Aid, 1966 Public Health Service Predoctoral Fellowship, 1966-67 Research Award, The Ohio State University, 1968 (Andes research, Peru) NASA Fellowship at the Manned (Johnson) Spacecraft Center in Houston, Summers 1969 and 1970 Population Council Fellowship, Cornell Summer Institute in Demography, 1971 Research Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid, State University of New York Research Foundation, 1972 (Andes research, Peru) NSF Graduate Equipment Grant, 1974 Research Fellowship and Grant-in-Aid, State University of New York Research Foundation, 1978 (Savanna research, Kenya) NSF Research Grant (Co-PI with N. Dyson-Hudson), Human Ecology of Savanna Pastoralists (nomadic Turkana pastoralists), 1978-80 NSF Research Grant (Co-PI with J.E. Ellis, N. Dyson-Hudson and P.W. Leslie), Activity, Nutrition, Growth and Energetics of Savanna Pastoralists (nomadic Turkana), 1980-81, 1982-86 NSF Research Grant (Co-PI with Paul W. Leslie), Human Ecology of Reproduction in Nomadic Turkana Pastoralists, 1988-1992 National Geographic Society Research Grant (PI with Michael A. DeLuca and Kenneth L. Campbell) Pregnancy Loss and Reproduction in Settled Turkana, 1993-1994 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and International Union of Biological Sciences (Paris) conference support "Human Biodiversity in Anthropological and Ecological Perspectives, Human Biology Association, 1996 Honors: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1980 Distinguished Ecologist Lecturer, Ecology of Pastoral Nomadism, Population Biology, and Anthropology, Colorado State University Program in Ecology, February 21, 22, 23, 2001 National Associate of the National Academies, National Research Council (NRC), National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Washington, DC, 2001-lifetime (this is not an elected membership, but rather a service associate membership) Franz Boas Distinguished Achievement Award, Human Biology Association, April 2005. Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Physical Anthropologists, March 2007. Michael A. Little Young Scholar’s Award, Human Biology Association, named award, Initiated April 2012. Professional American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow (AAAS) Organizations: American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Fellow (AAPA) Asociación Mexicana de Antropología Biológica (AMAB) Human Biology Association, Fellow (HBA) International Association of Human Biologists (IAHB) International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Society for the Study of Human Biology (SSHB) Society for the Study of Social Biology (SSSB) Professional Activities: Editorial Committee, U.S. International Biological Programme (IPB) Synthesis Volume Series, 1972-74 Member of Founding Committee, Human Biology Council 1973-74 Secretary/Treasurer, Human Biology Council, 1973-75 Executive Committee, Human Biology Council, 1974-79 UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme Subcommittee, Project 12-Human Studies, 1974-76 UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme Ad Hoc Committee for Information Management, 1976-78 American Association of Physical Anthropologists Nominations Committee, 1978-79 Editorial Board, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 1979-82 Book Review Editor, the journal Human Biology, 1981-89 UNESCO Man and the Biosphere U.S. Executive Committee, 1983-1995; Vice Chairman, 1987-1995 International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) Working Group on Tropical Mountain Ecosystems (International Decade of the Tropics Programme), 1984-1988 Human Biology Council Executive Committee, 1986-90 American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Vice President, 1988-90, President, 1991-93, Past President 1993-94 U.S. National Committee/International Union of Biological Sciences (USNC/IUBS), Member 1989-97, Chair 1995-97 AAAS Section H (Anthropology) Nominations Committee, Member 1989-92, Chair 1992 AAAS Section H (Anthropology) Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, 1995-1999 American Anthropological Association, Long-Range Planning Committee 1993-1999, Finance Committee 1995-98, Committee of Anthropology Association Presidents 1991- 93, 1995-8 Editorial Board, the journal Human Biology, 1990-2014 Editorial Board, Annual Review of Anthropology, 1992-1996 Council for the Preservation of the Anthropological Record (CoPAR), Executive Committee (Secretary/Treasurer) 1994-2000. Human Biology Association, President-Elect 1995-96, President 1996-98, Past President 1998-1999 Editorial Board, Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology, 1998- 2014 U.S. National Committee/International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (USNC/IUAES), Chair 1999-2002 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vice President, 1998- 2009 Chair, American Journal of Human Biology Editor Search Committee, 2000 Chair, American Association of Physical Anthropologists History Committee, 2000-2014 Council Member, International Association of Human Biologists, 2001-2003 Editorial Board, American Anthropologist, 2006-2008 AAAS Section H (Anthropology) Council Representative, 2008-2013 AAAS Section H (Anthropology) Chair-Elect 2009, Chair 2010, Past Chair 2011 Editorial Board, Japanese Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2007-2019 Editorial Board, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 2008-2013 AAAS Section H (Anthropology) Representative to the Human Biology Association, 2008-2010 Human Biology Association, Archives Preparation for Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives, 2010-2011 Editorial Board, American Journal of Human Biology, 2017-present Areas of Specialization: Biological Anthropology, Human Biology, Human Ecology, Human Adaptability, Environmental Stress (heat, cold, altitude, nutrition, disease, solar radiation), Child Growth, Reproduction, History of Biological Anthropology/Science Research/Field Work/Scholarship: Skeletal biology/cold and heat adaptation at altitude, Peruvian Andes, June-Sept. 1962. Bone density, U.S., June-Sept. 1963 Andean Biocultural Studies, Peruvian Andes, June-Dec. 1964, June 1965-Jan. 1966 Alcohol and coca effects on cold responses, Peruvian Andes, Aug.-Sept. 1968 3 Exercise capacity/circadian rhythms/heat stress, Environmental Physiology Laboratory, Manned Spacecraft Center, June-Aug. 1969, June-Aug. 1970 Microcold/energy flow, Peruvian Andes, May-Aug. 1972 Skin and hair reflectance relationships, 1978, 1983-84 Longitudinal Growth of Female Gymnasts, 1978-85 Preliminary Turkana Pastoral Nomad Studies, 1976-1978 South Turkana Ecosystem Project, Kenya, 1980-1988 Ecology of Reproduction and Health of Turkana Pastoralists, 1988-2002 History of Biological Anthropology and Human Biology 2000-present Publications: Book Reviews: 1970 (Book review) Interviewing: Strategy, Techniques, and Tactics by R.L. Gordon. Human Biology, 42: 341-342. 1971 (Book review) Brown Adipose Tissue, ed. by O. Lindberg. Human Biology, 43: 468-469. 1972 (Book review) Health and Biology of Circumpolor Human Populations, ed. by A.W. Eriksson, D. Hughes, and F.A. Milan. Human Biology, 44: 361-363. 1973 (Book review) The Human Biology of Environmental Change, ed. by D.J.M. Vorster. Human Adaptability Newsletter, No. 5 (University Park, PA). 1974 (Book review) Physiological and Behavioral Temperature Regulation, ed. by J.D. Hardy, A.P. Gagge, and J.A.J. Stolwijk. Human Biology 46:183-184. 1976 (Book review) Physical Anthropology and Workbook in Physical Anthropology by P.L. Stein and B.M. Rowe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 44:533-534. 1976 (Book review) Japanese International Biological Program, Human Adaptability Synthesis: Vol. 1-4. American Anthropologist, 78: 700-702. 1976 (Book review) Current status of environmental physiology research in Anthropology. Review of: Physiological Anthropology, ed. by A. Damon. Reviews in Anthropology, 3: 511-516. 1978 (Book review) Human Ecology in the Tropics, ed. by J.P. Garlick and R.W.J. Keay. American Anthropologist, 80: 173-74. (Film review) Regulating Body Temperature. American Anthropologist, 80: 512. 1979 (Book review) Eskimos of Northwestern Alaska: A Biological Perspective, ed. by P.L. Jamison, S.L. Zegura and F.A. Milan. Human Biology, 51:244-46. 4 1980 (Book review) Life at High Altitude by D. Heath and D.R. Williams, Annals of Human Biology, 7: 398-399. 1982 (Book reviews) Aboriginal Man Adapting by R.L. Kirk, Human Biology, 54: 166-167. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers:
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