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Department of Anthropology 
University of Oklahoma 
521 Dale Hall Tower                                                                     (405) 325-9179 (office)
455 West Lindsey Street                                                              (405) 325-7386 (fax)
Norman, OK  73019                                                                     kganders@ou.edu

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Positions Held
Education and Training
Research Interests
Courses Taught
Published Papers
Published Book Chapters
Published Abstracts
Manuscripts Under Review
Selected Manuscripts in Preparation
Grants
Presentations
Dissertations
Fellowships and Honors
Professional Service
Other Professional Experience
Professional Memberships

Positions Held

Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma

• Assistant Professor, 2004 – present

• Lecturer, 2002 – 2004

Center for Applied Social Research, University of Oklahoma

• Project Director, 2004 – present

• US/Mexico Border Health HIV/AIDS Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center

•  American Indian/Alaska Native HIV/AIDS Center

• Research Affiliate, 2002 –  present

• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000 – 2002

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 1999 – 2000

Education and Training

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

• Ph.D., Anthropology, 1999

• M.S. (With Distinction), Anthropology, 1996

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• B.A., Biology/Anthropology (Highest Honors in Anthropology), 1993

• Junior year abroad: University of East Anglia (Norwich, England), School of Environmental Sciences, 1991 – 1992 

Research Interests

Anthropological demography; South Africa; HIV/AIDS; behavioral ecology; fertility; kinship; parental care; education and schooling outcomes; marriage/divorce; life history theory; nonpaternity.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Anth 2503), a required course for Anthropology majors covering historical, theoretical and applied perspectives of biological anthropology. Spring 2006.

Anthropological Demography (Anth 5273), a graduate seminar that considers demography, the study of human populations, from an anthropological perspective. Fall 2003.

Biology of Human Reproduction (Anth 4933), an upper-level advanced biological anthropology course on human reproductive ecology and the physiology of human fertility. Spring 2004, Spring 2007.

Statistical Concepts in Anthropology (Anth 4713), an upper-level course introducing students to statistics. Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007.

Primates (Anth 3953), a junior/senior course on primate behavior and ecology. Spring 2008.

General Anthropology (Anth 1113), a lower-level undergraduate course providing a four-field introduction to anthropology. Fall 2002, Fall 2003 (Honors), Fall 2005 (Honors), Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008.

Religion in Everyday Life (Anth 1823), a lower-level course using an anthropological perspective to examine how religion affects peoples’ lives. Fall 2007.

Peoples of the World (Anth 2203), a lower-level undergraduate survey of world cultures, dealing with representative hunting and gathering, horticultural, pastoralist and complex societies. Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005.

Internship program coordinator. The purpose of the internship program is to provide undergraduate anthropology students applied and real world experience in the field of Anthropology. Since Fall  2006. Intership course numbers: 

• Anth 3810 Internship in Linguistic Anthropology
• Anth 3910 Internship in Biological Anthropology
• Anth 3920 Internship in Museum Anthropology
• Anth 3940 Internship in Archaeology
• Anth 3950 Internship in Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Population Problems (Soc 330), a mid-level undergraduate course covering introductory demography and population issues. Fall 2000; University of Michigan (co-instructor with Dr. Stephanie Fonda).

Published Papers

Beutel, Ann M., and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2008. Race and the educational expectations of parents and children: The case of South Africa. The Sociological Quarterly 40: in press.

Carabin, Hélène, Marguerite S Keesee, Linda J Machado, Timothy Brittingham, Lynda Williams, Nancy K Sonleitner, Kermyt G Anderson, Adan Cajina, and Morris W Foster. 2008. Estimation of the prevalence of AIDS, opportunistic infections and standard of care among HIV/AIDS patients receiving care along the US/Mexico border through the Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS): A cross-sectional study. AIDS Patient Care and STDs: in press.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Ann. M. Beutel, and Brendan Maughan-Brown. 2007. HIV risk perceptions and first sexual intercourse among youth in Cape Town, South Africa. International Family Planning Perspectives 33(3):98-105. 

Anderson, Kermyt G., and Ann M. Beutel. 2007. HIV/AIDS prevention knowledge among youth in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Social Science 3(3):143-150.

Beutel, Ann M., and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2007. The educational expectations of South African youth. Sociological Focus 40(4):348-369.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. 2007. Confidence of paternity, divorce, and investment in children by Albuquerque men. Evolution and Human Behavior 28(1):1-10.

Anderson, Kermyt G. 2006. How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Results from worldwide nonpaternity rates. Current Anthropology 48(3):511-518.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. 2006. Demographic correlates of paternity confidence and pregnancy outcomes among Albuquerque men. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131(4):560-571.

Keesee, Marguerite, Kimberly Shinault, Hélène Carabin, Ahmad Saleem G. Ahmad, Kermyt G. Anderson, et al. 2006. Socio-demographic characteristics of a population of HIV/AIDS seropositive individuals receiving care through five demonstration sites along the US-Mexico border. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services 5(2):15-35.

Anderson, Kermyt G. 2005. Relatedness and investment in children in South Africa. Human Nature 16(1):1-31.

Hofferth, Sandra, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2003. Are all dads equal? Biology vs. marriage as basis for paternal investment. Journal of Marriage and Family 65:213-232.  

Low, Bobbi S., Carl P. Simon, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2002. An evolutionary ecological perspective on demographic transitions: Modeling multiple currencies. American Journal of Human Biology 14:149-167.

Kaplan, Hillard, Jane Lancaster, W. Troy Tucker, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2002. Evolutionary approach to below replacement fertility. American Journal of Human Biology 14:233-256.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Anne Case, and David Lam. 2001. Causes and consequences of schooling outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from survey data. Social Dynamics 27(1):37-59. 

Anderson, Kermyt G. 2000. The life histories of American stepfathers in evolutionary perspective. Human Nature 11:307-333.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. 1999. Paternal care by genetic fathers and stepfathers I: Reports from Albuquerque men. Evolution and Human Behavior 20:405-431.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, David Lam, and Jane B. Lancaster. 1999. Paternal care by genetic fathers and stepfathers II: Reports by Xhosa high school students. Evolution and Human Behavior 20:433-451.

Published Book Chapters

Anderson, Kermyt G., and Bobbi S. Low. 2003. Nonmarital first births and women's life histories. In The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility, J. Rodgers and H.P. Kohler, eds., pp. 57-86. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 

Low, Bobbi S., Carl P. Simon, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 2003. The biodemography of modern women: Tradeoffs when resources become limiting. In The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility, J. Rodgers and H.P. Kohler, eds., pp. 105-134. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Kaplan, Hillard, Jane B. Lancaster, and Kermyt G. Anderson. 1998. Human parental investment and fertility: The life histories of men in Albuquerque. In Men in Families: When Do They Get Involved? What Difference Does It Make?, A. Booth and N. Crouter, eds., pp. 55-111. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Published Abstracts

Anderson, Kermyt G. 2004. How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Results from worldwide nonpaternity rates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 38: 53.

Manuscripts Under Review

Selected Manuscripts in Preparation

Anderson, Kermyt G. Family structure, schooling outcomes, and investment in education in South Africa. 

Anderson, Kermyt G., and David Lam. Dynamics of family structure and progress through school in South Africa: Evidence from retrospective histories.

Lam, David, and Kermyt G. Anderson. Women’s schooling, fertility, and investments in children in South Africa. 

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Men's financial expenditures on genetic children and stepchildren from current and former relationships. Population Studies Center Research Report No. 01-484. 

Grants

R01 HD045581 Lam (PI)                        9/26/03 – 11/30/08
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Family Support and Rapid Social Change in South Africa
Provides five years of support, to analyze patterns of family dynamics and intergenerational transfers in South Africa. Also includes the development, administration, and analysis of a supplemental module on family support and intergenerational transfers for Wave II of the Cape Area Panel Study.
Role: Consultant

R01 HD039788 Lam (PI)                        5/1/01 – 4/30/06
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Families, Communities, and Youth Outcomes in South Africa
Analyzes the effect of family background and community characteristics on the outcomes of young people in South Africa, with special emphasis on educational attainment and grade repetition. Includes the development and implementation of a new longitudinal survey of adolescents and young adults in Cape Town, South Africa. Wave I of the survey collected data on almost 5,000 young adults and their households in 2002; Wave II is planned for 2005.
Role: Consultant

Presentations

Keesee, Marguerite S., Hélène Carabin, Nancy K. Sonleitner, Ahmad Saleem G. Ahmad, Kermyt G. Anderson, Adan Cajina, Robyn Schulhof, Morris Foster. Migrant labor, acculturation and risk behaviors of HIV/AIDS positive Hispanics patients receiving HIV/AIDS care along the US - Mexico border. American Public Health Association annual meeting, Washington, DC November 2007.

Anderson, Kermyt G. Life history tradeoffs and HIV/AIDS risk behaviors in South Africa. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, annual meeting, Williamsburg, VA, June 2007.

Anderson, Kermyt G. HIV/AIDS risk behavior over the male life course: A perspective from life history theory. International Union for the Scientific Study of Population's Seminar on the Ecology of the Male Life Course, Castle of Rauischholzhausen, Germany, October 2006.

Espinoza, Raffaella E., Hélène Carabin, Marguerite S. Keesee, Tim R. Brittingham, Kermyt G. Anderson. Evaluation of Standards of Care for HIV/ AIDS Patients along the U.S.-Mexico Border through Five SPNS Demonstration Projects. American Public Health Association annual meeting, November 2006, Boston MA.

Anderson, Kermyt G., and Ann M. Beutel. Self-perceived HIV/AIDS risk among youth in Cape Town, South Africa. Population Association of America annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2006.

Keesee, M., H. Carabin, K. A. Shinault, A. Ahmad, K. G. Anderson, T. Brittingham, L. Williams, N. K. Sonleitner. Socio-demographic characteristics of a population of HIV/AIDS seropositive individuals receiving care through five demonstration sites along the U.S.-Mexico Border. American Public Health Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, December 2005..

Anderson, Kermyt G. Timing of reproductive maturation in South Africa: Testing the Belsky-Draper hypothesis with three ethnic groups. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Austin, TX, June 2005.

Anderson, Kermyt G. How well does paternity confidence match actual paternity? Results from worldwide nonpaternity rates. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Tampa, FL, April 2004.

Anderson, Kermyt G. Father absence, childhood stressors, and reproductive maturation in South Africa. Population Association of America annual meeting, Boston, MA, April 2004.

Beutel, Ann M., and Kermyt G. Anderson. Educational expectations in South Africa: Comparisons between adolescents and parents. Population Association of America annual meeting, Boston, MA, April 2004.

Anderson, Kermyt G. Household coefficient of relatedness and investment in children in South Africa. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, June 2003.

Anderson, Kermyt G. Household coefficient of relatedness and investment in children in South Africa. The Human Behavioral Ecology Workshop: Future Questions, Approaches, and Applications for a Second Generation. Orono, ME, May 2003.

Anderson, Kermyt G., and David Lam. Dynamics of family structure and progress through school in South Africa: Evidence from retrospective histories. Population Association of America annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 2003.

Lam, David, and Kermyt G. Anderson. Women’s schooling, fertility, and investments in children in South Africa. Population Association of America annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 2002. 

Lam, David, and Kermyt G. Anderson. Women’s schooling, fertility, and investments in children in South Africa. Conference on Welfare, Demography and Development, Oxford, England, September 2001.

Anderson, Kermyt G., and Bobbi Low. Nonmarital first births and women's life histories. Population Association of America annual meeting, Washington, D.C., March 2001.

Hofferth, Sandra L., and Kermyt G. Anderson. Assessing biological and stepfather investment in children: Using the PSID-CDS. Workshop on Measuring Father Involvement, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, February 2001.

Anderson, Kermyt G. The life histories of American stepfathers in evolutionary perspective. Third Workshop on Lowest Low Fertility, with a special focus on the Biodemography of Fertility. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, August 2000.

Low, Bobbi, Carl P. Simon, and Kermyt G. Anderson. The Biodemography of fertility for Modern Women: Modeling Multiple Currencies. Third Workshop on Lowest Low Fertility, with a special focus on the Biodemography of Fertility. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, August 2000.

Anderson, Kermyt G. The life histories of American stepfathers in evolutionary perspective. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, June 2000.

Lam, David, Kermyt G. Anderson, and Hillard Kaplan. Determinants of educational outcomes among urban Xhosa in Cape Town, South Africa. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, June 2000.

Anderson, Kermyt G. Grade repetition, schooling attainment, and family background in South Africa. Presentation to the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa, April 2000.

Hofferth, Sandra L., and Kermyt G. Anderson. Biological and stepparent investment and children’s achievement and behavior. Conference on Conflict and Cooperation, sponsored by the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy and the NICHD Family and Child Well-Being Research Network, Bethesda, MD, March 2000. 

Anderson, Kermyt G. The life histories of American stepfathers in evolutionary perspective. Evolution and Human Adaptation Program Seminar, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, November 1999.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Paternity confidence and fitness outcomes: Abortion, divorce, and paternal investment. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, June 1999.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Male parental care among Albuquerque men: An evolutionary perspective. Society for Research in Child Development biannual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, April 1999.

Kaplan, Hillard, Jane Lancaster, W. Troy Tucker, and Kermyt G. Anderson. An evolutionary approach to below replacement fertility. Population Association of America annual meeting, New York, NY, March 1999. 

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Parental investment in Xhosa children in Cape Town, South Africa. Society for Cross Cultural Research annual meeting, Santa Fe, NM, February 1999.

Anderson, Kermyt G., and Hillard Kaplan. Parental care as mating effort among urban Xhosa in Cape Town, South Africa. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, University of California, Davis, CA, July 1998.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Paying for children’s college costs: Paternal effort as a collective good among Albuquerque men. Economic Science Association annual meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 1997.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Paying for children’s college costs: The paternal investment strategies of Albuquerque men. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, June 1997. 

Kaplan, Hillard, Jane B. Lancaster, and Kermyt G. Anderson. Human parental investment and fertility: The life histories of men in Albuquerque. Prepared for the National Symposium on Men in Families: When Do They Get Involved? What Difference Does It Make?, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, October 1996.

Anderson, Kermyt G., Hillard Kaplan, and Jane B. Lancaster. Determinants of parental expenditures among Albuquerque men. Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 1996.

Dissertations

Ph.D. dissertation: Paternal Care, Divorce and Stepfathers: Analyses of Parental Behavior by Anglo, Hispanic, and Xhosa Men in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Cape Town, South Africa. 

• Dissertation Committee: Dr. Hillard Kaplan, Dr. Jane Lancaster, Dr. Kim Hill, and Dr. Steve Gangestad

• Honors Thesis Committee: Dr. Bruce Winterhalder, Dr. Paul Leslie, and Dr. Richard Yarnell

Fellowships and Honors

William D. Hamilton Postdoctoral Presentation Award, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 2000.

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (Cultural Anthropology), University of New Mexico, 1994 – 1997. 

John Honigmann Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Anthropology, University of North Carolina, 1993.

Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina, 1993.

James M. Johnston Scholar, University of North Carolina, 1989 – 1993.

Professional Service

Consulting Editor, Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, 2002 – present.

Maintain the online Human Behavioral Ecology Bibliography of Recent Publications, 2003 – present.

Guest Editor, special issue of Human Nature on kin investment, vol 16 no. 1 (2005).

Chair, "Mating Strategies III" session, Human Behavior and Evolution Society annual meeting, 2005.

Chair, “Parent-Child Ties” session, Population Association of America annual meeting, 2002. 

Occasional Reviewer, Evolution and Human Behavior, Population and Development Review, American Anthropologist, Journal of Anthropological Research, Population Research and Policy Review, Social Dynamics, Research in Economic Anthropology, AIDS and Behavior, Journal of Family Issues, Social Biology.

Discussant, Evolutionary Biodemography Session II, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, 2001.

Member, Planning Committee for the 2001 Population Association of America annual meeting, 2000.

Proposal reader, Student Research Allocation Committee Graduate Student Grants, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1996 – 1997. 

Representative, Human Evolutionary Ecology Subfield, Anthropology Graduate Student Union, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1995 – 1996.

Other Professional Experience

Consultant, Khayelitsha/Mitchell’s Plain Survey 2000 (University of Cape Town, South Africa).

Sampling Program for Survey Statisticians, Institute for Social Research [non-degree certificate], University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1999.

Research Assistant, supported by NIA R01 AG015906 to Hillard Kaplan, “Evolutionary Approaches to the Biodemography of Aging,” 1998 – 1999.

Project Coordinator, Family Background and Education Project (Cape Town, South Africa). Funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation to the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan (David Lam, Principal Investigator). Duties included questionnaire design and implementation, data collection, data capture, and participation in qualitative interviews. January – July 1998.

Indexer, Ache Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People (1996, Aldine de Gruyter), by Kim Hill and A. Magdalena Hurtado, 1995.

Volunteer tour guide, Duke University Primate Center, Durham, NC, 1993 – 1994.

Participant, University of North Carolina Archaeology Field School’s excavation of a pre-Columbian settlement on the Dan River, Virginia, June – July 1991.

Professional Memberships

American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Population Association of America (PAA)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)