Our guest this week is Dr. Courtney Helfrecht, assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. Dr. Helfrecht chats with us about her path to bicultural anthropology and her work on adrenarche and alloparenting in sub-Saharan populations. She tells us about the importance of cooperation and what doing fieldwork far from home may teach us about ourselves.
Find out more about Dr. Helfrecht’s work at chelfrecht.people.ua.edu
Read her paper “Life History and Socioecology of Infancy” here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.24145
Find her article in the AJHB “Sibling effects on nutritional status: Intersections of cooperation and competition across development” here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.22763
You can contact Dr. Helfrecht at chelfrecht@ua.edu
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