Faculty Member
Deborah L. Crooks
College: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Anthropology
Designation: Associate Professor
Research: nutrition security, food security; political economy of food and nutrition; poverty, gender, and ethnicity in food and nutrition; child growth and population well-being; politics of health and healthcare; human adaptation and adaptability
Courses: ANT 230: Intro to Biological Anthropology; ANT 333: Contemporary Human Variation; ANT 303: Topics in Food Nutrition: Food Politics: ANT 440: Anthropological Perspectives on Child Growth and Development; ANT 603: Human Biology in Context ofSociocultural change: ANT 770-2: Anthropology of Food and Nutrition; ANT 774 - food and food security in a Changing World
ANT 350 - Food politics
ANT 333 - Contemporary human variation
ANT 230 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology
Current activities: I teach courses on topics that focus on the human/environment interaction and the consequences for human well-being. Gwembe Tonga Research Project
Current funding: National Science Foundation
Expertise: biocultural anthropology; human adaptation; political economy of child growth; nutrition and food security
human adaptation/human adaptability
Keywords: adaptation, environmental constraints, well-being, Biocultural, nutritional, security, political, economy, inequality, Sociocultural, International, Health, malnutrition
Location: 201A Lafferty Hall 40506-0024
Phone: (859) 257-4654
Fax: (859) 323-1959
Email address: dlcrooks@uky.edu
