Research Cluster: Foodways, Diet and Nutrition
Foodways, Diet and Nutrition
This cluster explores eating, nutrition and diet, but also how humans engage with their worlds and each other.
Current research examines nutrition (and malnutrition), health and a wide range of practices including household dynamics, exchange and economics, religious practice, conquest and resistance, commercialization, and sustainable food systems.
Affiliated Courses
1AA3: Sex, Food and Death
2AN3: Food and Nutrition
2EO3: Intro to Biological Anthropology
3CAC: Ceramic Analysis
3CO3: Health and Environment
3PP3: Paleopathology
3XO3: Zooarchaeology
3BB3: Paleoethnobotany
3KO3: Archaeological Interpretation
4CC3: Archaeology of Foodways
4CP3: Cultural Politics of Food and Eating
4DN3: Diet and Nutrition
4HF3: Archaeology of Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers
4KK3: Archaeology of Neanderthals and Other Early Hominids
4RO3: Advanced Skeletal Biology
740: Biocultural Synthesis
741: Metabolic Disease
746: Bioarchaeology
749: Gastronomic Heritage
Researchers
Tina Moffat
PhD
Professor, Anthropology
Adjunct & Associate Member, Health, Aging & Society
Tracy Prowse
PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Editor, American Journal of Biological Anthropology
Kee Yong
PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Associate Member, Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition
Research Programs
Departmental faculty and graduate students fit into one or more research programs (sub-fields).
Research Clusters
While the department covers four main Research Programs (sub-fields) in Anthropology, we also integrate our Research Programs in the below six key areas of expertise and investigation.
