Assistant University

Alyssa N. Crittenden

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Research & Publications

Curriculum Vitae

Media Coverage

Collaborators

Hadza Ethnography

Maps of Hadza Land

Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Culture and the Mind - University of Sheffield

By the Light of a Million Fires (Firestick Productions)

Curriculum Vitae

Alyssa N. Crittenden, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

4505 S. Maryland Parkway

Las Vegas, NV 89154-5003

aboy4a@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

PhD Biological Anthropology

2009 University of California, San Diego

MA Anthropology

2003 University of California, San Diego

BA Anthropology, High Honors

2001 University of California, Santa Cruz

POSITIONS, RESEARCH AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK

Fall 2011 - Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of

Nevada Las Vegas

2010 - 2011Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Varki Lab

University of California, San Diego

N-glycolylneuraminic acid in the human diet

2009 - 2010Postdoctoral Researcher: Center for Academic Research and Training in

Anthropogeny (CARTA),

University of California, San Diego

Food sharing networks among Hadza children

Grant writing; graduate program development; website development; program

representative

2008 Graduate Student Researcher: Center for Academic Research and Training in

Anthropogeny (CARTA),

University of California, San Diego

Project development and support

2007 Research Assistant: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

Working Group, UC San Diego

Folklore and creation of the Kumeyaay Native Americans

2006 Visiting Researcher: Department of Anthropology, Nutritional Ecology Lab, Harvard

University

Macronutrient analysis of Hadza diet

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2010 Contributing Author, Museum of Comparative Anthropogeny (MOCA), Center for Academic

Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), UC San Diego

2010 Alumni Representative Fellow, Marketing and Communications, University of

California, San Diego

2010 Biological Anthropology Colloquium Organizer, Department of Anthropology, University

of California, San Diego

2009 Graduate Student Representative Fellow, Division of Social Sciences Development

Department, University of California, San Diego

2007 Graduate Enrichment Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, University of

California, San Diego

JOURNAL REFEREE

Current Anthropology

Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective

Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITS AND HONORS

2010 Photo: Two girls babysit and carry their young siblings. In The Hadza Hunter-

Gatherers of Tanzania by Frank Marlowe. Page 206. Berkeley: University of California

Press. March 2010.

2009 Photo: Thirst Quencher Hadza hunter-gatherers dig tubers for water. In "Of Tools

and Tubers" Science 324: 588-589. April 2009.

2009 Photos: (1) Hadza babysitters (2) Research among the Hadza. In Finding Our Tongues:

Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk. Page 67. New York: Basic

Books. 2009.

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