Meet two of the college’s newest faculty, whose disciplinary expertise—from moral psychology to energetics of immunity, growth, and reproduction—enriches and expands the arts and sciences at WSU.
Aaron Blackwell
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Research and teaching interests:Human life history evolution; ecological impacts on the development of human immune function; human growth patterns; effects of parasitic infections on immunity and growth; fertility, pregnancy, and reproduction; energetics of immunity, growth, and reproduction
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Associate professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education and training:
Postdoctoral scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara; PhD, MA, Biological Anthropology, University of Oregon; BA, Biochemistry, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
Honors and achievements:
“Helminth infection, fecundity, and age of first pregnancy in women” in Science, 2015; “Immune Function in Amazonian Horticulturalists” in Annals of Human Biology, 2016; “Growth references for Tsimane forager‐horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon” in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2017
Outside of work, I enjoy:
Hiking, camping, biking, surfing, travel, cooking, virtual reality, and brewing beer.
Anne Pisor
![Anne Pisor.](https://wpcdn.web.wsu.edu/wp-cas/uploads/sites/3186/2018/08/pisor_anne-140x160.jpg)
Research and teaching interests:
Why relationships spanning distance became so important in the human lineage, and which social and ecological factors affect interest in between-group relationships today; integrating international development and evolutionary anthropology; market integration/globalization/urbanization and changes in health and behavior; moral psychology; collaborative field research with three populations of horticulturalists in the Bolivian Amazon
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Education and training:
PhD, MA, Anthropology; MA Applied Statistics, University of California Santa Barbara; BA, Anthropology and Psychology, UC Los Angeles
Honors and achievements:
New Investigator Award, Human Behavior & Evolution Society; recent publications in Scientific Reports, Psychological Science, Evolution & Human Behavior, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), and Proceedings of the Royal Society B; previously funded by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation
Outside of work, I enjoy:
Singing, running, biking, diving, and food.