Postdoctoral Scholar
Biography
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2020
M.A., Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2014
B.S., Anthropology, Texas State University, 2012
Curriculum Vitae
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My 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).
Research
Selected Research
- 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. Download PDF
- 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. Download PDF
- 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. Download PDF
- 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.
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, American Society of Human Genetics, Human Behavior and Evolution Society