Postdoctoral ScholarPh.D., Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2020M.A., Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2014B.S., Anthropology, Texas State University, 2012mhkeith@uw.eduPersonal Website CV (189.32 KB)Fields of Interest Behavioral Ecology Biological Anthropology Global Health Statistics Growth and DevelopmentHuman GeneticsBackground and ExperienceSummaryMy research integrates genetic, health, and ecological data to study longitudinal health and child growth in diverse contexts, and I implement Bayesian models to assess biocultural sources of variation. I work with three ongoing field studies researching health, growth, and biodemography in rural and indigenous populations: the Dominica Longitudinal Health Study (Saint David, Dominica), the Shodagor Longitudinal Health and Demography Project (Matlab, Bangaldesh), and the Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology (CARE) Program (Formosa, Argentina). Professional Affiliations: American Association of Physical Anthropologists, American Society of Human Genetics, Human Behavior and Evolution Society Research Publications Starkweather KE, Keith MH. 2019. One piece of the matrilineal puzzle: the socioecology of maternal uncle investment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: The evolution of female-biased kinship in humans and other mammals [Special Issue] 374:20180071. Keith MH, Blomquist GE, Flinn MV. 2019. Anthropometric heritability and child growth in a Caribbean village: A quantitative genetic analysis of longitudinal height, weight, and BMI in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170:393–403. Starkweather KE, Keith MH. 2018. Estimating impacts of the nuclear family and heritability of nutritional outcomes in a boat-dwelling community. American Journal of Human Biology 30: e23105. Ahsan MH, Blomquist GE. 2015. Modeling variation in early life mortality in the western lowland gorilla: genetic, maternal and other effects. American Journal of Primatology 77: 666–678. News & Events Related News Faculty News 2022 May 10, 2022 Anthropology researchers awarded prize in Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge Dec 8, 2021 Share: