North America
Social Networks, Wellbeing and Responses to Shifts in Immigration Policy and Practice
Description:
This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of team members can be found here. Core faculty include:
• Jennifer Glick, Associate Professor, SSFD
• Alexandra Brewis, Professor of Medical Anthropology
• Amber Wutich, Assistant Professor
• Christopher Boone, Associate Professor
• National Science Foundation ($750,000—pending)
This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of partners can be found here.
Leveraging Culture and History to Support Healthy, Resilient & Just Communities
Description: 
This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of team members can be found here. Core faculty include:
• SHESC's Late Lessons from Early History program, supported by the President's Initiative Fund
This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of partners can be found here.
Prelude to Plant Domestication in Eastern North America
With National Science Foundation support, Dr.
- Jane Buikstra, Professor of Bioarchaeology
- Tim Messner, Postdoctoral Fellow (Archaeobotany)
- Gregory Vogel, Director of Research, Center for American Archeology
- David Asch, Archaeobotanist
- April Sievert, Lithics Analyst (microwear)
- Steve Bozarth, Phytoliths
- NSF: ~$300,000
- Center for American Archeology
- Illinois State Museum
The Phoenix Innovation Study
The Phoenix Innovation Study, initiated by the School of Human Evolution and Social Change is a core project of the Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University Initiative. The research team, led by professor Sander van der Leeuw, is exploring the entrepreneurial landscape of the Phoenix Metro Area. To spur increased innovation in the Phoenix metropolitan area, we must first understand our community's assets.
- Sander van der Leeuw, Principal Investigator, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
- Nancy Jurik, School of Justice and Social Inquiry
- Jose Lobo, School of Human Evolution and Social Change & W.P. Carey School of Business
- Gabriella Sanchez, Research Assistant
- Lisa Meierotto, Project Coordinator
The Kauffman Foundation
Phoenix Area Environmental Justice Project Series
Description:
Grineski, S., Bolin, B. & Boone, C. (2007). Criteria air pollution and marginalized populations: Environmental inequity in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Social Science Quarterly, 88(2), 535-554.
Bolin, B. (2006) Race, class, and disaster vulnerability. In Rodriguez, Quarantelli and Dynes (Eds.), Handbook of disaster research (pp. 113-130). New York: Springer.
Grineski, S., Bolin, B. & Agadjanian, V. (2006). Tuberculosis and urban growth: Class, race and disease in early Phoenix, Arizona." Health and Place, (12), 603-629
Bolin, R., Grineski, S., & Collins, T. (2005). The geography of despair: Environmental racism and the making of South Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Human Ecology Review, 12(2), 156-168.
Geographic Vulnerability Analysis of Water Resources in the Phoenix Area
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AOC: Archaeological Data Integration for the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics
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National Science Foundation
Protohistoric Zuni Social and Political Organization
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The Hopewell Ancient Native American Societies Project
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The Anthropology of Host-Pathogen Co-Evolution
Description:
- Jane Buikstra, SHESC, Principal Investigator
- A. Magdalena Hurtado, SHESC
- Anne C. Stone, SHESC
- Amy W. Farnbach, SHESC
- Alicia K. Wilbur, SHESC
- Lisa Jones-Engel, University of Washington
- Charlotte A. Roberts, University of Durham
- Noreen Tuross, Harvard University