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CURRICULUM VITAE
Lisa Sattenspiel
Department of Anthropology e-mail: [email protected]
112 Swallow Hall 573-882-9405 (w), fax: 573-884-5450
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211
EDUCATION
Undergraduate
Stanford University (Fall 1973-Winter 1977)
BA in Interdepartmental — Human Evolution (with distinction) awarded March 1977
Post-undergraduate
University of Calgary (Archaeological Field School, 1977)
Graduate
University of New Mexico (Fall 1977 to Spring 1984)
MS in Anthropology awarded May 1979
PhD in Anthropology awarded May 1984
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia (September 2016-present)
Research Affiliate, Population, Education and Health Center, University of Missouri-Columbia
(July 2016-present)
Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia (September 2003-
present)
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia (August
1993-August 2003)
Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University,
England (January-June 1993)
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia (August
1987-July 1993)
Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track), Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
(September 1984-May 1987)
AWARDS
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013)
Division of Student Affairs Excellence in Education Award (2001)
Alumnae Anniversary Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Education of Women at
Mizzou (1998)
Elected to Sigma Xi, The Society for Scientific Research (1989)
Elected to Kappa Mu Epsilon, Mathematics Honor Society (1979)
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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND CONTRACTS
National Science Foundation, ‘Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Inequalities and
Respiratory Mortality in Newfoundland during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic’ (DDIG for
Taylor Paskoff) (August 2019 – February 2021)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend The Social Impact of Epidemics: A
Workshop marking 100 Years of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, Oslo Metropolitan
University (Oslo and Akershus University College), Oslo Norway, September 3-5, 2018
National Science Foundation, ‘Doctoral Dissertation Research: Assessing the potential causes of
the second epidemiological transition in Newfoundland and Labrador’ (DDIG for Dana
Schmidt) (May 2017 - October 2019)
Santa Fe Institute, Short-term Visitor, Santa Fe, NM (with George Gumerman III, Alan
Swedlund, and Amy Warren) (March 2016)
National Science Foundation, ‘Doctoral Dissertation Research: Simulating prehistoric population
dynamics and adaptive behavioral responses to the environment in Long House Valley and
Black Mesa, Arizona’ (DDIG for Amy Warren) (September 2015- August 2017)
Santa Fe Institute, Short-term Visitor, Santa Fe, NM (with George Gumerman III, Alan
Swedlund, and Amy Warren) (March 2014)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend the 6th Workshop on Design and
Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach,
Germany, November 11-15, 2013
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), Short-term Visitor,
Knoxville, TN (April 8-10, 2013)
Santa Fe Institute, Short-term Visitor, Santa Fe, NM (with Alan Swedlund) (October 26-29, 2012)
National Science Foundation, ‘Doctoral Dissertation Research: Kinship and European-derived
diseases at Mission San Diego, California 1775-1845’ (DDIG for Carolyn Orbann)
(September 2011- August 2012)
MISMS Travel Scholarship to attend ‘Historical Influenza Pandemics: Lessons Learned,’
Copenhagen, Denmark, May 3-7, 2010
University of Missouri Summer Research Fellowship and Research Council Grant, ‘The potential
impact of co-circulating pathogens in St. John’s, Newfoundland’ (June 2009-May 2010)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend the DIMACS Workshop on Spatio-
temporal and network modeling of disease, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 14-18, 2007
University of Missouri Research Board Grant, ‘Traditional social activities and epidemic spread
in Newfoundland’ (June 2006-May 2007) (with C Palmer)
University of Missouri Research Leave and Research Council Grant, ‘Agent-based model of
epidemic spread in Newfoundland’ (June 2006-May 2007)
Government of Canada, Canada Studies Faculty Research Grant Program, ‘Traditional social
activities and epidemic spread in Newfoundland’ (June 2006-May 2007) (with C Palmer)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend ICM2002 Satellite Conference in
Mathematical Biology, Guilin, China, August 15-18, 2002
National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-0094449, ‘Modeling interactions among
environment, behavior, and mortality in the Western James Bay Cree’ (REU Supplement)
(Apr 2003-Mar 2004)
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Contract No. DTRA01-02-C-0035, ‘Geographic Epidemic
Modeling (GEM) study’ (May, 2002-April, 2003)
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University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend The Changing Face of Disease:
Implications for Society, Cambridge, England, September 17-18, 2001 (unable to attend
because of September 11 terrorism)
National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-0094449, ‘Modeling interactions among
environment, behavior, and mortality in the Western James Bay Cree’ (Mar 2001-Feb 2005)
(with R Hoppa, DA Herring, and R Preston)
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, ‘Historical interactions of
environment, behaviour and mortality among the Western James Bay Cree’ (June 2000-May
2003) (with R Hoppa, DA Herring, and R Preston)
National Science Foundation; Population contact and the spread of the 1918-19 influenza
pandemic in the central Subarctic (REU Supplement) (April 6, 1998 - May 31, 1999), $4000
University of Missouri Research Board, ‘Child social networks and disease transmission’ (May
1998-August 1999) (with M Flinn)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend The Spanish Flu Pandemic After 80
Years — Reflections on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, Cape Town, South Africa,
September 1998
University of Missouri Research Leave and Grant, ‘Influenza in native Canadian fur-trapping
communities’ (August 1998-July 1999)
National Science Foundation, Grant No. SBR-9615945, ‘Population contact and the spread of the
1918-19 influenza pandemic in the Central Subarctic’ (June 1997-May 2000) (with DA Herring)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend the Workshop on Mathematical and
Epidemiological Models of HTLV-I, Bielefeld, Germany (October 1995)
University of Missouri Research Board Grant, ‘Fur-trapping and the spread of influenza in
Manitoba’ (May 1995-April 1996)
University of Missouri Research Council Summer Fellowship and Grant, ‘Human mobility and
the geographic spread of disease’ (Summer 1994)
University of Missouri Development Leave, to attend the Isaac Newton Institute program on
Epidemic Models, Cambridge, England (January-June 1993)
University of Missouri International Travel Grant, to attend 3rd International Conference on
Mathematical Population Dynamics, Pau, France (June 1992)
National Science Foundation, Grant No. BNS-9010265, ‘Population mobility and disease spread
in Dominica, West Indies’ (August 1990-January 1992)
University of Missouri Research Council Grant, ‘Population mobility and disease spread in
Dominica, West Indies’ (February 1990-December 1990)
University of Missouri Research Council Grant, ‘Population mobility and disease spread in
Dominica, West Indies’ (June 1989-May 1990)
University of Missouri Alumni Association Grant, ‘Population mobility and disease spread in
Dominica, West Indies’ (1989)
University of Missouri Research Council Summer Fellowship and Grant, ‘The spread of dengue
fever in a structured population’ (Summer 1988)
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Student Grant-in-Aid (January-August 1984)
National Science Foundation Grant for Doctoral Dissertation Improvement, Grant No. BNS83-
10491 (July 1983-December 1984)
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BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
1. Sattenspiel, Lisa (with contributions from Alun Lloyd) (2009) The Geographic Spread of
Infectious Diseases: Models and Applications. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
298 pages.
2. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Alun Lloyd, with contributions from Jianguo Sun, Steven Tanner, and
Benjamin Bolker (2003) Modeling the Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases. Report
prepared for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Washington, DC. 243 pages.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1. Sattenspiel, Lisa, Dimka, Jessica, and Carolyn Orbann (2019) Using cultural, historical, and
epidemiological data to inform, calibrate, and verify model structures in agent-based
simulations. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 16(4):3071-3093. DOI:
10.3934/mbe.2019152
2. Paskoff, Taylor and Lisa Sattenspiel (2018) Sex- and age-based differences in mortality
during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland. American Journal of
Human Biology 31(1):e23198. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23198
3. Schmidt, Dana M and Lisa Sattenspiel (2017) Timing of the second epidemiological
transition in Newfoundland. American Journal of Human Biology 29(5):e22997.
doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.e22997
4. Orbann, Carolyn, Lisa Sattenspiel, Jessica Dimka, and Erin Miller (2016) Defining
epidemics in computer simulation models: how do definitions influence conclusions?
Epidemics 19:24-32. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2016.12.001
5. Chowell, Gerardo, Lisa Sattenspiel, Shweta Bansal, Cécile Viboud (2016) Early sub-
exponential epidemic growth: Simple models, nonlinear incidence rates, and additional
mechanisms: Reply to comments on “Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic
growth: a review.” Physics of Life Reviews 18:114-117.
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2016.08.016
6. Chowell, Gerardo, Lisa Sattenspiel, Shweta Bansal, Cécile Viboud (2016) Mathematical
models to characterize early epidemic growth: a review. Physics of Life Reviews 18:66-97.
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2016.07.005
7. Swedlund, Alan C, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, Richard S Meindl, and George J
Gumerman III (2016) Explorations in paleodemography: an overview of the Artificial Long
House Valley agent-based modeling project, with new observations on demographic
estimation. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology, Molly K Zuckerman and Debra
Martin (eds.), New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 403-426.
8. Sattenspiel, Lisa, Erin Miller, Jessica Dimka, Carolyn Orbann, and Amy Warren (2016)
Epidemic models with and without mortality: when does it matter? In Mathematical and
Statistical Modeling for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Gerardo Chowell
and James M Hyman (eds.), Switzerland: Springer International, pp. 313-327.
dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40413_2.
9. Walker, Robert S, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Kim R Hill (2015) Mortality from contact-related
epidemics among indigenous populations in Greater Amazonia. Scientific Reports 5:14032.
DOI:10.1038/srep14032.
10. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2015) Coevolution of humans and pathogens. In Basics in Human
Evolution, Michael Muehlenbein (ed.), Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 415-426.
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11. Swedlund, Alan, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, and George Gumerman (2015) Modelling
archaeology: 20 years after Artificial Anasazi. In Agent-based Modeling and Archaeology,
Gabriel Wurzer, Kerstin Kowarik, and Hans Reschreiter (eds.), Berlin: Springer, pp. 37-50.
12. Dimka, Jessica, Carolyn Orbann, and Lisa Sattenspiel (2014) Applications of agent-based
modeling techniques to studies of historical epidemics: the 1918 flu in Newfoundland and
Labrador. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, New Series 25(2):265-296.
13. Orbann, Carolyn, Lisa Sattenspiel, Jessica Dimka, and Erin Miller (2014) Agent-based
modeling and the second epidemiological transition. In Modern Environments and Human
Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition, Molly K Zuckerman (ed.),
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 105-122.
14. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Rebecca S Lander (2014) The timing of the second epidemiological
transition in small US towns and cities: evidence from local cemeteries. In Modern
Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition, Molly
K Zuckerman (ed.), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 163-177.
15. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Svenn-Erik Mamelund (2013) Co-circulating epidemics, chronic
health problems, and social conditions in early 20th century Labrador and Alaska. Annals of
Anthropological Practice 36(2):402-421.
16. Mamelund, Svenn-Erik, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Jessica Dimka (2013) Influenza associated
mortality during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: a comparison.
Social Science History 37(2):177-229.
17. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2012) Epidemiology and epidemiological modeling. In Encyclopedia of
Theoretical Ecology, Alan Hastings and Louis J Gross (eds.), Berkeley: University of
California Press, pp. 263-270.
18. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Karen Slonim (2012) The epidemiology of human disease. In Human
Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, 2nd edition, Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin,
and Dennis O'Rourke (eds.), New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 387-457.
19. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2011) Regional patterns of mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic
in Newfoundland. Vaccine 29S:B33-B37.
20. O’Neil, Caroline A and Lisa Sattenspiel (2010) Agent-based modeling of the spread of the
1918-1919 Spanish flu in three Canadian fur trading communities. American Journal of
Human Biology 22:757-767.
21. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2010) What can the historic record tell us about modern infectious disease
epidemics? Oberwolfach Reports 48:2688-2689.
22. Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (2010) Emerging themes in anthropology and
epidemiology: geographic spread, evolving pathogens, and syndemics. In A Companion to
Physical Anthropology, Clark S Larsen (ed.), Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 167-178.
23. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Melissa Stoops (2010) Gleaning signals about the past from cemetery
data. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142:7-21.
24. Lloyd, Alun L and Lisa Sattenspiel (2009) Spatiotemporal dynamics of measles: Synchrony
and persistence in a disease metapopulation. In Spatial Ecology, Stephen Cantrell, Chris
Cosner, and Shigui Ruan (eds.), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 251-272.
25. Carpenter, Connie and Lisa Sattenspiel (2009) The design and use of an agent-based model
to simulate the 1918 influenza epidemic at Norway House, Manitoba. American Journal of
Human Biology 21(3):290-300.
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26. Tanner, Matthew W, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Lewis Ntaimo (2008) Finding optimal
vaccination strategies under uncertainty using stochastic programming. Mathematical
Biosciences 215(2):144-151.
27. Palmer, Craig T, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Chris Cassidy (2007) Boats, trains, and immunity:
the spread of the Spanish influenza on the island of Newfoundland. Newfoundland and
Labrador Studies 22(2):473-504.
28. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2007) Modeling the geographic spread of infectious diseases using
population- and individual-based approaches. In BIOMAT 2006 — International Symposium
on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Rubem P Mondaini and Rui Dilão (eds.),
World Scientific Publishing, pp. 103-122.
29. Herring, D Ann and Lisa Sattenspiel (2007) Social context, syndemics, and infectious diseases
in northern Aboriginal populations. American Journal of Human Biology 19:190-202.
30. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Connie Carpenter (2004) Using an individual-based model to study the
spread of infectious diseases among Canadian fur-trapping populations. Oberwolfach
Reports 1(4):2636-2637.
31. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2004) The evolution, transmission, and geographic spread of infectious
diseases in human populations: questions and models. In The Changing Face of Human
Disease, Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Jean Peters, and Stephen T McGarvey (eds.), Boca
Raton: CRC Press, pp. 40-63.
32. Herring, D Ann and Lisa Sattenspiel (2003) Death in winter: the Spanish flu in the
Canadian Subarctic. In The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19, Howard Phillips and
David Killingray (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 156-172.
33. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2003) Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach.
In Human Biology in the Archives, D Ann Herring and Alan Swedlund (eds.), Cambridge:
University Press, pp. 234-265.
34. Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (2003) Simulating the effect of quarantine on the
spread of the 1918-19 flu in central Canada. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 65(1): 1-26.
35. Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (2002) Human mobility and the spread of the 1918-
1919 influenza epidemic in the Norway House Region of Manitoba. In Ancient Travellers
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of
the University of Calgary, Claire Alume, Jennifer Kahn, Christine Cluney and Meaghan
Peuramaki-Brown (ed.), Calgary, Alberta: The Archaeological Association of the
University of Calgary, pp. 245-258.
36. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2000) Tropical environments, human activities, and the transmission of
infectious diseases. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 43:3-31.
37. Sattenspiel, Lisa, Anne Mobarry, and D Ann Herring (2000) Modeling the influence of
settlement structure on the spread of influenza among communities. American Journal of
Human Biology 12(6):736-748.
38. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2000) The epidemiology of human disease. In Human Biology: An
Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Rebecca Huss-
Ashmore, and Dennis O'Rourke (eds.), New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 225-271.
39. Schoeninger, Margaret J, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Mark R Schurr (2000) Transitions at
Moundville: a question of collapse. In Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of
Agriculture, PM Lambert (ed.), University of Alabama Press, pp. 63-77.
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40. Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (1998) Structured epidemic models and the spread of
influenza in the Norway House District of Manitoba, Canada. Human Biology 70:91-115.
41. Vradenburg, Joseph A, Robert A Benfer, and Lisa Sattenspiel (1997) Evaluating
archaeological hypotheses of population growth and decline on the central coast of Peru. In
Integrating Archaeological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric
Population, RR Paine (ed.), Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No.
24, pp. 150-172.
42. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1996) Spatial heterogeneity and the spread of infectious diseases. In
Models for Infectious Human Diseases: Their Structure and Relation to Data, V Isham and
G Medley (eds.), Cambridge, England: University Press, pp. 286-289.
43. Bolker, BM, M Altmann, M Aubert, F Ball, ND Barlow, RG Bowers, AP Dobson, JS
Elkington, GP Garnett, CA Gilligan, MP Hassell, V Isham, JA Jacquez, A Kleczkowski, SA
Levin, RM May, JAJ Metz, D Mollison, M Morris, LA Real, L Sattenspiel, J Swinton, P
White, and BG Williams (1995) Group report: spatial dynamics of infectious diseases in
natural populations. In Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations, BT Grenfell
and AP Dobson (eds.), Cambridge, England: University Press, pp. 399-420.
44. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Klaus Dietz (1995) A structured epidemic model incorporating
geographic mobility among regions. Mathematical Biosciences 128:71-91.
45. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) Comment on ‘Epidemics: models and data,’ by Denis Mollison,
Valerie Isham, and Bryan Grenfell. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 157(1):136-
137.
46. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) Population contact among different regions and disease spread. In
Mathematical Population Dynamics: Analysis of Heterogeneity, Volume One: Theory of
Epidemics, O Arino, D Axelrod, M Kimmel, and M Langlais (eds.), Winnipeg, Canada:
Wuerz Publishing Ltd, pp. 171-184.
47. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) How does a disease get from here to there? The geographic spread
of AIDS and other diseases. In Modeling the AIDS Epidemic, EH Kaplan and ML Brandeau
(eds.), New York: Raven Press, pp. 501-514.
48. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Christopher Powell (1993) Geographic spread of measles on the island
of Dominica, West Indies. Human Biology 65:107-129.
49. Flinn, Mark and Lisa Sattenspiel (1990) Comment on ‘Explaining biased sex ratios in
human populations: A critique of recent studies,’ by Daniela F Sieff. Current Anthropology
31:37-38.
50. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1990) Modeling the spread of infectious disease in human populations.
Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:245-276.
51. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Carlos Castillo-Chavez (1990) Environmental context, social
interactions, and the spread of HIV. American Journal of Human Biology 2:397-417.
52. Sattenspiel, Lisa, James Koopman, Carl Simon, and John A Jacquez (1990) The effects of
population subdivision on the spread of the HIV infection. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 82:421-429.
53. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1989) The structure and context of social interactions and the spread of
HIV. In Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to AIDS Epidemiology, C Castillo-
Chavez (ed.), Lecture Notes in Biomathematics 83. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 242-259.
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54. Koopman, James, Carl Simon, John Jacquez, Jill Joseph, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Taesung Park
(1988) Sexual partner selectiveness effects on homosexual HIV transmission dynamics.
Journal of AIDS 1:486-504.
55. Jacquez, John A, Carl P Simon, James Koopman, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Timothy Perry
(1988) Modeling and the analysis of HIV transmission: the effect of contact patterns.
Mathematical Biosciences 92:119-199.
56. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Carl P Simon (1988) The spread and persistence of infectious diseases
in structured populations. Mathematical Biosciences 90:341-366. (Also published in
Nonlinearity in Biology and Medicine, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International
Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Edited by AS Perelson, B Goldstein, M
Dembo, and JA Jacquez, pp. 341-366.)
57. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1988) The spread and maintenance of a disease in a structured population.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 77:497-504.
58. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1987) Epidemics in non-randomly mixing populations: a simulation.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 73:251-266.
59. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1987) Population structure and the spread of disease. Human Biology
59:411-438.
60. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1985) Population subdivision and the spread of disease: Application to
hepatitis A in day care centers. H'aliksai: UNM Contributions to Anthropology 4:50-67.
61. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1984) Patterns in accidents and deaths by drowning in the Åland Islands
1749-1850. H'aliksai: UNM Contributions to Anthropology 3:90-104.
62. Sattenspiel, Lisa and Henry Harpending (1983) Stable populations and skeletal age.
American Antiquity 48:489-497.
PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS, UNDER REVIEW, IN PREPARATION
1. Paskoff, Taylor and Lisa Sattenspiel (nd) Differential excess mortality from respiratory
infections during the 1918 flu pandemic and associated socioeconomic consequences. (in
preparation)
PUBLISHED COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELS
1. Sattenspiel, Lisa, Jessica Dimka, Erin Miller, and Becca Lander (2019, April 15). “St
Anthony flu” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved
from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/758c8616-0d8a-44d4-a3fa-
921f902b9561/releases/1.0.0/
2. Orbann, Carolyn and Lisa Sattenspiel (2019, April 15). “Mission San Diego Model” (Version
1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved
from:https://www.comses.net/codebases/9e677564-24e7-4355-89a8-
1d0b6a67c610/releases/1.0.0/
BOOK AND ARTICLE REVIEWS
1. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2016) Review of Anthropology of Infectious Disease by Merrill Singer.
International Journal of Paleopathology 13:77-78.
2. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2012) Review of Disease Maps: Epidemics on the Ground by Tom Koch.
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American Journal of Human Biology 24(1):195.
3. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2002) Review of Mosquito by Andrew Spielman and Michael D’Antonio.
Quarterly Review of Biology 77(4):461.
4. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2000) Review of Epidemic Modelling: An Introduction by DJ Daley and J
Gani. Human Biology 72(5):903-905.
5. Sattenspiel, Lisa (2000) Review of Evolutionary Medicine, edited by WR Trevathan, EO
Smith, and JJ McKenna. Journal of the American Medical Association 284:99-100.
6. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1998) Review of Biological Invasions: Theory and Practice by Nanako
Shigesada and Kohkichi Kawasaki. American Journal of Human Biology 10:683-684.
7. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1997) Review of Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of
People and Plagues by Christopher Wills. American Journal of Physical Anthropology
104:536-538.
8. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1995) Review of ‘A mathematical model of epidemics with screening and
variable infectivity,’ by MY Kim and FA Milner. Mathematical Reviews 96g:92013.
9. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1995) Review of ‘Women in the American mathematical research
community: 1891-1906,’ by Della Dumbaugh Fenster and Karen Hunger Parshall.
Mathematical Reviews 95i:10010
10. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1995) Review of ‘A profile of the American mathematical research
community: 1891-1906,’ by Della Dumbaugh Fenster and Karen Hunger Parshall.
Mathematical Reviews 95i:10009.
11. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1995) Review of Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant
Menace", by Alan M Kraut. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96:99-100.
12. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) Review of The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, edited
by Kenneth F Kiple. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93:400-402.
13. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) Review of Statistical First Aid by Robert P Hirsch and Richard K
Riegelman and Basic and Clinical Biostatistics by Beth Dawson-Sanders and Robert G
Trapp, Human Biology 66:351-354.
14. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1993) Review of ‘Construction of linear invariants in phylogenetic
inference,’ by Yun-Xin Fu and Wen-Hsiung Li. Mathematical Reviews 93f:3460.
15. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1993) Review of Miasmas and Disease by Carlo M Cipolla, and AIDS
and Accusation by Paul Farmer. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 90:259-261.
16. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1991) Review of Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to AIDS
Epidemiology, edited by C Castillo-Chavez. Mathematical Reviews 91k:6341.
17. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1991) Review of ‘Relatives' risks: frailty models of life history data,’ by J
Vaupel. Mathematical Reviews 91k:6340-6341.
18. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1991) Review of ‘Vaccination campaigns for common childhood
diseases,’ by D Greenhalgh. Mathematical Reviews 91i:92009.
19. Sattenspiel, Lisa (1991) Review of Community Food Webs by JE Cohen, F Briand, and CM
Newman. Mathematical Reviews 91f:92031.
20. Sattenspiel, L (1988) Review of Evolution: Essays in Honour of John Maynard Smith,
edited by PJ Greenwood, PH Harvey, and M Slatkin. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 76:272-273.
21. Sattenspiel, L (1986) Review of Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective, by Ann
McElroy and Patricia K Townsend. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 17:106-107.
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INVITED PRESENTATIONS
‘“Bring out your dead!” Plague epidemics and human history’, presented in the Fall 2018 Osher
A&S Potpourri Session, September 10, 2018.
‘Concomitant effects of cultural and economic disparities on health and society among peoples
of the Far North and Yukon Delta regions of Alaska in the early 20th century,’ presented at
The social impact of epidemics: A workshop marking 100 years of the Great Flu Pandemic of
1918, Oslo Metropolitan University (Oslo and Akershus University College), Oslo Norway,
September 3-5 2018 (with M Murray).
‘Differential excess mortality from respiratory infections during the 1918 flu pandemic and
associated socioeconomic consequences,’ presented at The social impact of epidemics: A
workshop marking 100 years of the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, Oslo Metropolitan
University (Oslo and Akershus University College), Oslo Norway, September 3-5 2018 (with
T Paskoff).
‘What can we learn from history? Using network formulations to model the spread of historic
infectious disease epidemics,’ keynote lecture presented at Contagion and Networks:
Progress and Issues with Models and Data, Satellite symposium, second edition @
NetSci2018, Paris, France, June 11, 2018.
‘Co-circulating epidemics and health care access in early 20th century Alaska and Labrador:
implications for emerging diseases of the present,’ poster presented in an invited poster
symposium at the 2018 Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Austin, TX, April 11-14, 2018 (with M Murray, T Paskoff, and S-E Mamelund) (Abstract
published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, Suppl S66:239)
‘”Spanish flu. Asking for 1 Gallon good rum.” Experiences with flu a century ago and now’,
presented at the Museum of Anthropology Tea Time Talks, University of Missouri, March
22, 2018.
‘Intrigue: The 1918 influenza pandemic’, presented at Science Café Columbia, March 12, 2018.
‘Geographic heterogeneity in mortality by age and sex during the 1918 influenza pandemic on
the island of Newfoundland,’ presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Social Science
History Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2-5, 2017 (with T Paskoff)
‘Sex and age differences in mortality during the Spanish influenza epidemic in Newfoundland,’
presented at the ICASS IX conference, Umeå, Sweden, June 8-12, 2017 (with T Paskoff and
D Schmidt)
‘Let them eat corn: cause-specific mortality and prehistoric population dynamics in transitional
environments,’ presented at the 2017 Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA, April 19-22, 2017 (with A Warren and AC Swedlund)
(Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162, Suppl S64:403)
‘Parallel tracks: Cross-fertilization in studies of mortality and fertility throughout human
history,’ invited poster presented at the 2017 Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA, April 19-22, 2017 (Abstract published in
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162, Suppl S64:344-345)
‘When the ill cannot be counted: a multidirectional approach to studying the health and
demography of pre-Columbian populations in the Southwest US,’ Department of
Anthropology, University of Tennessee, September 29, 2016.
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‘Integrating biology, culture, and society in the study of infectious diseases: The 1918 influenza
pandemic in Labrador,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, September
28, 2016.
‘Cemetery records and the second epidemiological transition,’ Department of Anthropology and
The Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, March 18, 2016.
‘Modeling environmental and demographic effects on population size in the Southwest US,’
presented at the 2015 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
San Jose, CA, February 12-16, 2015 (with AL Warren, AC Swedlund, GJ Gumerman)
‘Regional variability in the timing of changes in mortality and infectious disease in early 20th
century Newfoundland: the impact of government policies and access to health care,’
presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, November 6-9, 2014 (with D Schmidt)
‘The second epidemiological transition in Newfoundland and Labrador,’ presented at the
RAPIDD Workshop on Quantitative Studies of Major Historic Epidemics, Copenhagen,
Denmark, August 14-16, 2014 (with D Schmidt)
‘Challenges in realistically modeling prehistoric demography: the Long House Valley project,’
presented at the 2014 Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SASci section),
Albuquerque, NM, March 18-22, 2014 (with AL Warren, AC Swedlund, RS Meindl, GJ
Gumerman)
‘Modeling the influence of social interactions and disease-related mortality during epidemics in
small communities: an agent-based approach,’ Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
University of Missouri-Kansas City, January 31, 2014.
‘The impact of disease-related mortality during epidemics in small communities,’ presented at
the 6th Workshop in Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies,’ Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany, November 11-15, 2013.
‘Modeling the spread of the 1918 flu in a small community in Newfoundland and Labrador: an
agent-based approach,’ presented at the 2013 American Mathematical Society Central
Sectional Meeting, St Louis, MO, October 19, 2013.
‘Social networks and the 1918 flu in Newfoundland,’ presented at the RAPIDD Workshop on
Individual-based and Network Models in Epidemiology, Princeton, NJ, October 7-8, 2013.
‘Explorations in paleodemography: An overview of the Artificial Anasazi agent-based modeling
project, with new observations on demographic estimation,’ poster presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville, TN, April 10-
13, 2013 (with AC Swedlund, RS Meindl, and GJ Gumerman) (Abstract published in
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150, S56:267)
‘Agent-based modeling and the second epidemiological transition,’ presented at the 2011
Postdoctoral Fellows Conference: ‘Moving the Middle to the Foreground: Re-visiting the
second epidemiological transition,’ University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 18-19
2011 (with C Orbann, J Dimka, and E Miller)
‘The timing of the second epidemiological transition in small US towns and cities: evidence from
local cemeteries,’ presented at the 2011 Postdoctoral Fellows Conference: ‘Moving the
Middle to the Foreground: Re-visiting the second epidemiological transition,’ University of
South Carolina, Columbia, SC, April 18-19 2011 (with R Shattuck)
‘The spread of the 1918 flu in Newfoundland: insights for the present,’ Department of Health
Sciences, University of Colorado-Denver, March 14, 2011.
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‘The geographic spread of the Spanish influenza epidemic on the island of Newfoundland,’
presented at the Annual Meeting of the World History Association, San Diego, CA, June 25,
2010.
‘Modeling the geographic spread of influenza: methods, approaches, and applications,’ presented
at the MISMS conference on Historical Influenza Pandemics: Lessons Learned, Copenhagen,
Denmark, May 5, 2010.
‘The spread of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic on the island of Newfoundland,’ presented at the
MISMS conference on Historical Influenza Pandemics: Lessons Learned, Copenhagen,
Denmark, May 4, 2010.
‘What can the historic record tell us about modern infectious disease epidemics?,’ presented at
the 5th Workshop in Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies,’ Mathematisches
Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany, November 2, 2009.
‘The potential significance of co-circulating pathogens on patterns of spatial spread: Insights
from the historic record,’ presented at the Third Workshop on Spatiotemporal and Network
Modeling of Diseases, Tübingen, Germany, October 21-24, 2008.
‘Population structure and disease spread: comparing population-based and individual-based
models of the 1918-19 flu epidemic in Manitoba and Newfoundland, Canada,’ presented at
the Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation Symposium on Facing the Challenge of
Infectious Diseases, Turin, Italy, October 13-17, 2008.
‘The origin and evolution of HIV and other pathogens,’ presented at the 2008
HIV/STD/Hepatitis Symposium, North Dakota Department of Health, Bismarck, ND, April
30, 2008.
‘Why Canadian fur trappers should stay in bed when they have the flu: modeling the geographic
spread of infectious diseases,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma,
Norman, OK, February 25, 2008
‘Boats, trains, immunity, and measles: the spread of the Spanish influenza on the island of
Newfoundland,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK,
February 25, 2008.
‘Spanish influenza on the island of Newfoundland,’ presented at the Workshop on
Spatiotemporal and Network Modeling of Diseases, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 14-18, 2007.
‘Epidemic models, historical data, and the spread of the 1918-19 flu in Canadian fur trappers and
fishermen,’ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard University School of Public Health,
Boston, MA, March 6, 2007.
‘Modeling the geographic spread of infectious diseases using population- and individual-based
approaches,’ presented at the BIOMAT 2006 conference, Manaus, Brazil, November 26-30,
2006.
‘Why Canadian fur-trappers should stay in bed when they have the flu: modeling the geographic
spread of infectious diseases,’ Department of Biology, The University at Albany, Albany,
NY, October 13, 2006.
‘Why Canadian fur-trappers should stay in bed when they have the flu,’ Anthropology Visiting
Lecture Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, October 19, 2005.
‘What local cemeteries can tell us about community improvements and health,’ Anthropology
Visiting Lecture Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, October 18, 2005.
‘Why Canadian fur-trappers should stay in bed when they have the flu,’ presented to the
Department of Mathematics, St Olaf College, April 5, 2005.
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‘Using an individual-based model to study the spread of infectious diseases among Canadian fur-
trapping populations,’ presented at the 4th Workshop in Design and Analysis of Infectious
Disease Studies, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Oberwolfach, Germany,
October 21, 2004.
‘The impact of human social organization on the spread of infectious diseases among Canadian
fur-trapping populations,’ presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Ecology Society of
America, Portland, OR, August 6, 2004.
‘Why Canadian fur-trappers should stay in bed when they have the flu,’ presented to the
Department of Mathematics, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, April 8, 2004.
‘Why Canadian fur-trappers should stay in bed when they have the flu,’ presented in the
Department of Mathematics Colloquium Series, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO,
September 9, 2003.
‘Modeling the effect of social organization on the geographic spread of infectious diseases:
modeling issues and data needs,’ presented at the Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis
Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI, July 24-25, 2003.
‘Modeling the process of contact between subgroups in spatial epidemics,’ presented at the
DIMACS Working Group Conference on Spatio-temporal and Network Modeling of
Diseases, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 22-26, 2003.
‘Modeling the geographic spread of infectious diseases,’ presented at the 3rd International
Conference on Mathematical Biology, Satellite Meeting, Guilin, China, August 15-18, 2002.
‘The effect of quarantine on the spread of the 1918-19 flu in central Canada,’ presented at the
University of Michigan Conference to honor John Jacquez, Ann Arbor, MI, October 19-21,
2001.
‘Death in winter: Modeling the spread of the Spanish flu epidemic in the Canadian Subarctic,’
Program for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, April 9, 2001.
‘Furs, flu, and feather beds; or, why Canadian Native fur trappers should stay in bed when they
have the flu,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, April 12, 2000.
‘How can mathematical models help the dead to speak?’ Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, OH, April 29, 1999. (Abstract published
in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl 28:241)
‘Where in the world is the epidemic Carmen Sandiego started? — Modeling the geographic
spread of infectious diseases,’ Department of Epidemiology, University of California,
Berkeley, January 29, 1999
‘Modeling within-group and between-group contact processes: implications for the geographic
spread of infectious diseases,’ University of California, San Francisco, January 27, 1999.
‘Furs, flu, and feather beds; or, why Canadian Native fur trappers should stay in bed when they
have the flu,’ San Francisco Department of Health, January 26, 1999
‘Modeling within-group and between-group contact processes: implications for the spread of
HIV,’ Dynamics and Control of AIDS, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, November 13, 1998.
‘Furs, flu, and feather beds; or, why Canadian Native fur trappers should stay in bed when they
have the flu,’ Workshop on Modelling of Contact Structure and the Spread of Infectious
Diseases, RIVM, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, September 24, 1998.
‘Furs, flu, and feather beds; or, why Canadian Native fur trappers should stay in bed when they
have the flu,’ Anthro group, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 23, 1998
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‘Where in the world is the epidemic Carmen Sandiego started?’ Anthropology Brown Bag,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 23, 1998
‘What makes hot zones so hot? Environmental disruption and the spread of infectious diseases,’
Environmental Studies Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, January 22, 1998
‘Where in the world is the epidemic that Carmen Sandiego started?’ presented at NIH-funded
seminar course, ‘Epidemiology and Mathematical Models’ at Cayey University College
(University of Puerto Rico), October 9, 1997.
‘Where in the world is the epidemic that Carmen Sandiego started?’ Noel P Gist International
Lecture Series, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, May 2, 1996.
‘Environmental disruption, human social behavior, and changing patterns of infectious disease,’
Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Raleigh, NC, April 9-10, 1996. Abstract
published in American Journal of Human Biology 8:127-128)
‘On modeling social interactions,’ presented at the Workshop on Mathematical and
Epidemiological Models of HTLV, Zentrum für Interdisziplinaire Studien, Universität
Bielefeld, Germany, October 4-14, 1995.
‘Human mobility and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu epidemic around Norway House,
Manitoba,’ 1994 Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, November 10-13, 1994
(with DA Herring)
‘Birth in four cultures,’ Grand Rounds, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Good
Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, June 6, 1994.
‘Where in the world is the epidemic that Carmen Sandiego started? — The geographic spread of
infectious diseases,’ International Conference on Differential Equations, Claremont, CA,
June 1-4, 1994.
‘Where in the world is the epidemic that Carmen Sandiego started?’ Working Group on New and
Reemergent Viruses, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, May 24, 1994.
‘Keyboards vs. pencils, or how computer simulations have contributed to understanding the
effects of population structure,’ 1st Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Anthropological Genetics, Denver, CO, March 29, 1994.
‘Where in the world is the epidemic that Carmen Sandiego started?’ McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario, November, 1993.
‘Structured epidemic models and the spread of measles on Dominica, West Indies,’ XIIIth
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City, July 29-
August 5, 1993.
‘The importance of interregional mobility for infectious disease spread in bounded geographic
areas,’ SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Salt Lake City, UT,
October 15-19, 1992.
‘Population contact among different regions and disease spread,’ 3rd International Conference on
Mathematical Population Dynamics, Pau, France, June 1-5, 1992.
‘Workshop on Mixing and Contact Patterns,’ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 28-29, 1991.
‘Environmental context, social interactions, and the spread of HIV,’ Mathematical Biology and
Biometry Group, Cornell University, August 16, 1990.
‘Population mobility and disease spread on Dominica,’ Interdisciplinary Seminar on
International Health, University of Iowa, February 13, 1990.
‘Geographic and behavioral mobility and the spread of Caribbean island worms and AIDS,’
Seminar for the Mathematical Biology Group, University of Iowa, February 13, 1990.
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‘The context of social interactions and the spread of HIV,’ Annual Meeting of the Human
Biology Council, San Diego, CA, April 5, 1989. (Abstract published in American Journal of
Human Biology 1:130-131)
‘The context of social interactions and the spread of AIDS,’ Department of Anthropology,
University of Kansas, March 9, 1989.
‘Social contacts and the spread of AIDS,’ Seminar in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior,
Department of Biology, University of Missouri-Columbia, September 1988.
‘The spread and persistence of infectious diseases in structured populations: application to day
care hepatitis,’ Workshop on Nonlinearity in Medicine and Biology, Los Alamos National
Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM, May 1987.
‘The spread and maintenance of a disease in a structured population,’ Sunbelt Social Network
Conference, Clearwater, FL, February 1987.
‘Population structure and the spread of disease,’ Department of Mathematics, University of
Tennessee-Knoxville, April 1985.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
‘Comparison of two Alaskan cultural groups during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic using social
network modeling,’ poster presented at the 2019 Meeting of the American Association of
Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, OH, March 27-30, 2019 (with M Murray) (Abstract
published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 168, Suppl S68:172)
‘Excess mortality of respiratory infection during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland
and Labrador,’ poster presented at the 2018 Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Austin, TX, April 11-14, 2018 (with T Paskoff) (Abstract published in
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, Suppl S66:200)
‘The impact of illness behavior of patients and caregivers on the spread of an influenza
epidemic,’ presented at the 2016 Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Atlanta, GA, April 12-16, 2016 (with JL Dimka). (Abstract published in
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, Suppl S62:131)
‘The effect of age-related reductions in school attendance on the size and timing of infectious
disease epidemics in a small, traditional community,’ presented at the 2016 Meeting of the
Human Biology Association, Atlanta, GA, April 13-14, 2016 (with JL Dimka). (Abstract
published in American Journal of Human Biology 28:274-275.)
‘A family of five is not the same as one household: the effects of disaggregation on demographic
outcomes in archaeological simulation models,’ presented at the 2016 Meeting of the Society
for American Archaeology, Orlando, FL, April 6-10, 2016 (with A Warren, AC Swedlund,
and GJ Gumerman III)
‘Timing of the second epidemiological transition in Newfoundland,’ poster presented at the 2015
Meeting of the Human Biology Association, St Louis, MO, March 25-26, 2015 (with D
Schmidt). (Abstract published in American Journal of Human Biology 27:286)
‘Exploring the effects of constant versus age-specific fertility rates on prehistoric population
estimates,’ presented at the 2015 Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, St Louis, MO, March 26-29, 2015 (with AL Warren, U Bhat, AC
Swedlund, GJ Gumerman). (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 156, Suppl S60:320)
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‘The timing of the late 19th/early 20th century epidemiological transition in small US towns and
cities,’ presented in the Population, Education, and Health Lecture Series, University of
Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 9, 2014.
‘Tracking the spread of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador: a
professional and personal journey,’ presented to the 2014 summer Life Sciences
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO,
July 8, 2014.
‘The reincarnation of Artificial Anasazi: How the grandfather of agent-based models in
archaeology is morphing into the Artificial Long House Valley project,’ Santa Fe Institute,
March 24, 2014 (with AL Warren, AC Swedlund, GJ Gumerman)
‘Modeling the demography of a pre-Columbian Southwest US population: The Artificial Long
House Valley (ALHV) project,’ presented at the National Institute for Mathematical and
Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), Knoxville, TN, April 9, 2013 (with AC Swedlund)
‘A comparison of mortality in Alaska and Labrador during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic,’
poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Portland, OR,
April 11, 2012. (with J Dimka and S-E Mamelund) (Abstract published in American Journal
of Human Biology 24:223)
‘Population and agent-based approaches to modeling the spread of infectious diseases:
application to the spread of the 1918 flu pandemic,’ presented in the MU Faculty-to-Faculty
Modeling Seminar Series, Columbia, MO, December 6, 2011.
‘An agent-based model for the spread of infectious diseases in small communities: application to
the spread of the 1918-19 flu in St Anthony, Newfoundland and Labrador,’ poster presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Minneapolis, MN, April 13, 2011.
(with E Miller, C Orbann, and J Dimka) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human
Biology 23:267)
‘Effects of the identity of the first case in an agent-based model of a flu epidemic in a
Newfoundland community,’ poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology
Association, Minneapolis, MN, April 13, 2011. (with J Dimka, C Orbann, and E Miller)
(Abstract published in American Journal of Human Biology 23:256-257)
‘The geographic spread of the Spanish influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland: is
there a measles connection?’ poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology
Association, Minneapolis, MN, April 13, 2011. (Abstract published in American Journal of
Human Biology 23:275-276)
‘The identification of prehistoric Amazonian slash-and-burn cultivation practices using an agent-
based model,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology,
Sacramento, CA, April 1, 2011. (with M O’Brien and D Pearsall)
‘Spanish flu mortality in Alaska and Labrador: a comparison,’ presented at the Social Science
History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 19, 2010. (with S-E
Mamelund)
‘Anthropology and medicine,’ presented to the SIGHT medical students association, University
of Missouri, October 21, 2010.
‘An agent-based computer simulation of infectious disease epidemics in Newfoundland,
Canada,’ presented at the EIALS lecture series, Department of Anthropology, University of
Missouri, April 28, 2010. (with C Orbann, J Dimka, and E Miller)
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‘Individual-based modeling of acute infectious diseases in historic St Anthony, Newfoundland,’
poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Chicago, IL,
April 1-2, 2009. (with C Orbann, C Atkisson, and L Huber)
‘The impact of prior and concurrent exposure to other infectious diseases on variability in the
1918-19 flu epidemic on the island of Newfoundland,’ poster presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Columbus, OH, April 8-9, 2008. (Abstract
published in American Journal of Human Biology 20:232) (with T Smith)
‘Interactions between a 1916-17 measles epidemic and the 1918-19 influenza epidemic on
Newfoundland,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Physical
Anthropology, Banff, Alberta, Canada, November 14-18, 2007 (with T Smith)
‘Boats, trains, and immunity: the spread of the Spanish influenza on the island of
Newfoundland,’ presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Association of Canadian
Studies, Kansas City, MO, February 16, 2007 (with C Palmer and C Cassidy)
‘Agent-based modeling of the spread of the 1918-1919 Spanish flu in three Canadian fur trading
communities’ poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association,
Anchorage, AK, March 8-9, 2006 (with C Ahillen) (Abstract published in American Journal
of Human Biology 18:250-251)
‘Infectious diseases in northern Aboriginal populations,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Human Biology Association, Anchorage, AK, March 8-9, 2006 (with A Herring and K
Slonim) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human Biology 18:287-288)
‘Human biology at the top of the world: Introductory comments,’ presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Anchorage, AK, March 8-9, 2006 (with A
Herring and W Leonard)
‘Agent-based modeling of seasonal population movement and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu,’
poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Tampa, FL, April
13-15, 2004 (with C Carpenter) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human Biology
16: 197-198)
‘Simulating the spread of smallpox in 19th century Canadian fur trapping communities,’ poster
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Tampa, FL, April 13-
15, 2004 (with M Stoops and A Herring) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human
Biology 16:226-227)
‘The spread of pertussis in two Canadian regions in the late 1800s and early 1900s,’ presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Tempe, AZ, April 25-27, 2003.
(with E Williams, A Herring, R Preston, and R Hoppa) (Abstract published in American
Journal of Human Biology 15:289-290)
‘Community improvements in health and changing patterns of death in Columbia, Missouri from
1900 to 1990,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Buffalo,
NY, April 12-14, 2002 (with M Stoops) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human
Biology 14:130)
‘Cyclospora cayetanensis: the shape of a protozoan attack,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Human Biology Association, Buffalo, NY, April 12-14, 2002 (with D Miller and A
Smith) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human Biology 14:124-125)
‘Trade-related travel and the spread of epidemics among the western James Bay Cree,’ presented
at the Canadian Association of Social and Cultural Anthropologists Annual Meeting,
Windsor, Ontario, May 2-5, 2002 (with DA Herring, RD Hoppa, and R Preston)
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‘Social and environmental factors influencing aquatic reservoirs of Vibrio cholerae,’ poster
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Kansas City, MO,
March 26-28, 2001 (with S Kellner and C Carpenter) (Abstract published in American
Journal of Human Biology 13:127)
‘Simulations of a 1984 measles epidemic on the island of Dominica,’ poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Kansas City, MO, March 26-28, 2001
(with S Blake, K Sadlo, and R Colvin) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human
Biology 13:113)
‘The impact of quarantine on the spread of the 1918-19 flu in central Canada,’ paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Physical Anthropologists, Hamilton, ON,
October 25-28, 2000 (with DA Herring)
‘Simulations of a 1984 measles epidemic on the island of Dominica,’ poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, August 3-5,
2000 (with S Blake, K Sadlo, and R Colvin)
‘The impact of quarantine on the spread of the 1918-19 flu in central Canada,’ presented at the
4th ESMTB meeting on Theory and Mathematics in Medicine and Biology, Amsterdam,
Netherlands, June 28-July 3, 1999 (with DA Herring and E Philpott)
‘Death in winter: The Spanish flu in the Canadian Subarctic,’ presented at The Spanish Flu
Pandemic After 80 Years — Reflections on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, Cape
Town, South Africa, September 1998 (with DA Herring)
‘Using simulation to detect potential effects of apparently minor social responses to an
epidemic,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1998 (with A Mobarry and DA Herring)
(Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Suppl 26:195)
‘Trade, traffic and the transmission of infection,’ Annual meeting of the Canadian Association
for Physical Anthropology, London, Ontario, November, 1997 (with DA Herring)
‘Gangway for the grippe: modeling the travel of Spanish flu through the central Canadian
Subarctic,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, St Louis,
MO, April 1-2, 1997 (with A Mobarry and DA Herring) (Abstract published in American
Journal of Human Biology 9:137)
‘Simulating the spread of measles in Dominica, West Indies,’ poster presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Human Biology Association, St Louis, MO, April 1-2, 1997 (with R
Colvin) (Abstract published in American Journal of Human Biology 9:126)
‘Transitions at Moundville: diet habitation, and health,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Raleigh, NC, April 11-13, 1996 (with MJ
Schoeninger and MR Schurr) (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl 22:209)
‘Social contact and the spread of the 1918 influenza epidemic in the central Subarctic,’ presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Raleigh,
NC, April 11-13, 1996 (with DA Herring) (Abstract published in American Journal of
Physical Anthropology Suppl 22:123)
‘A model for the geographic spread of infectious diseases,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Oakland, CA, March 29-April 1,
1995. (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl 20:189-190)
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‘Social interactions among school children and the spread of infectious diseases,’ presented at
the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Denver, CO,
March 30-April 2, 1994 (with M Morris and M Handcock) (Abstract published in American
Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl 16:176-177)
Comment on ‘Epidemics: models and data,’ by Denis Mollison, Valerie Isham, and Bryan
Grenfell, presented at the Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, Cambridge, England, June
23, 1993.
‘Spatial heterogeneity and the spread of infectious diseases,’ presented at the Workshop on
Models for Infectious Human Diseases Structure and Relation to Data, Isaac Newton
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, March 28-April 2, 1993.
‘Patterns of mobility in Dominica, West Indies: implications for disease spread,’ poster presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Las Vegas,
NV, April 1992. (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suppl
14:147)
‘Population mobility and the spread of measles in Dominica, West Indies,’ presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Milwaukee, WI,
April 1991 (with C Powell). (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical
Anthropology Suppl 12:144)
‘Population mobility and disease spread in Dominica, West Indies,’ poster presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Miami, FL, April
1990 (with C Powell) (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
81:290)
‘The effects of population structure on the spread of the HIV infection,’ presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Kansas City, MO, April
1988. (Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75:266)
‘Predation and infection in early hominid evolution,’ poster presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Albuquerque, NM, April 1986.
(Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:261)
‘The use of simulation in studying natural processes,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Knoxville, TN, April 1985. (Abstract
published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 66:225)
‘Population structure and the spread of disease,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Detroit, MI, April 1984. (Abstract
published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 63:214)
‘A migration matrix model of day-care hepatitis,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Indianopolis, IN, April 1983. (Abstract
published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60:249)
‘Modelling human land use: implications for culture change,’ presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology, April 1982 (with L Wandsnider and H Harpending).
‘Migration and population structure in the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea,’ presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, April 1978 (with LL Cavalli-Sforza). (Abstract published in American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 48:433)
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EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Advisory Panel, Defining Moments Canada project—a commemoration of the 100th anniversary
of the 1918 influenza pandemic in collaboration with the Government of Canada (January
2018-April 2019)
External Review Committee Member, University of Pittsburgh Department of Anthropology
(February 2017)
Executive Board, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2016-19) [elected position]
Review Panel — NIH Special Emphasis Panel (April 2015)
HBA Representative to Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (2015-2020)
Nominations Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2013-15)
Nominations Committee, Section H (Anthropology), American Association for the Advancement
of Science (2013-2016) [elected position]
Article Editor — SAGE Open (September 2012)
Review Panel — NIH Special Emphasis Panel, AIDS [Chairman] (July 2012)
Review Panel — NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Program (February 2012)
Review Panel — NIH Special Emphasis Panel (July 2011)
Advisory Board — National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
(August 2010-August 2014)
Editorial Board — American Journal of Physical Anthropology (May 2009-April 2013)
Review Panel — NIH MIDAS Centers for Excellence (April 2009)
Review Panel — NSF Mathematical Biology Program, Washington, DC, January 31-February 1,
2008
Invited participant and presenter — ‘Workshop on a Center in Mathematical Biology,’
Washington, DC, September 18-20, 2006
Organizer — ‘Human biology at the top of the world,’ plenary session presented at the 2006
Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association, Anchorage, Alaska, March 8-9, 2006
Ad hoc Reviewer — NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship program, March 2006
Member, Organizing Committee for Life Sciences Week, University of Missouri (2005-2006)
Review Panel — NIH MIDAS program (June 2005)
External assessor – Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Bates College (2004)
Review Panel — NSF Graduate Fellowship program (February 2004)
Review Panel — NIH MIDAS program (November 2003)
Executive Committee, Human Biology Association (2002-2006)
Member, Meetings Travel Funding Committee, Society for Mathematical Biology (2001-2017,
Chair 2001-2006)
Review Panel — NSF Ecology of Infectious Diseases initiative (May 2000, May 2003)
Executive Board, Society for Mathematical Biology (1998-2002)
Organizing committee, Expanding Your Horizons Science Day for 7th and 8th grade girls,
Columbia MO (1998-2002)
Member of ad hoc NIH advisory panel, July 1997 and March 1998
Board Member — University of Missouri Chapter, Women-in-Science (1994-1998, Executive
Coordinator 1997-1998)
Organizer — ‘Disease as traveler’ session at the 1994 Chacmool Conference, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, November 10-13, 1994
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Invited speaker and participant — Workshop on Methods for Teaching Mathematics to First
Year Students in the Life Sciences, Iowa State University (1994)
Member of the Mental Health Exhibit Committee for a proposed Health Adventure Club (a type
of science museum devoted to all aspects of health) for the City of Columbia (1993-1994)
Invited Participant — ‘Learning from the past: defining the future of tuberculosis,’ workshop
held at the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, November 18-19, 1993.
Co-organizer (with M Morris and D Mollison) — Workshop on Network Models and
Epidemiology, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge,
March 23, 1993 (with additional activities from March 24-26)
Moderator — Conference on Selective Mixing and the Spread of AIDS, Columbia University,
New York, April 27-28, 1990
Women-in-Science Junior High School Day on Campus, University of Michigan, November 1985
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ACTIVITIES
Chair, Department of Anthropology (2016-present)
Panelist, Deaton Scholars Program Discussion Panel (2018)
Campus Writing Board (2015-18)
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Anthropology (1995-2010)
Chairman, Curriculum Committee, Department of Anthropology (1998-2016)
A&S Undergraduate Scholarships Committee (2002-03, 2008-10)
A&S Curriculum, Instruction, and Advising Committee (1991-94, 2000-01)
Multicultural Certificate Executive Committee (2008-09)
Excellence in Education Awards Committee (2008)
Environmental Sciences Steering Committee (2002-05)
Coordinator, Anthropology Department Course Renumbering (2003-04)
Freshman Interest Group (FIG) co-facilitator (1995-99)
Participant — Wakonse Conference on Undergraduate Teaching (1997)
AB International Studies Program Review Committee (1997-98)
Mathematics Literacy Task Force (1988-89)
Campus Workshop on Clusters (1993)
A&S Multicultural Course Evaluation Committee (1992-93)
Participated in Teaching Renewal Conference (1994, 1995)
Campus Workshop on Teaching Large Lecture Classes (1995)
Oral Communications Task Force (1994-95)
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
PhD Dissertations:
Erin Lee Miller — ‘Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Åland
Archipelago,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2018
Amy Leigh Warren — ‘Simulating prehistoric population dynamics and adaptive behavioral
responses to the environment in Long House Valley and Black Mesa, Arizona,’ Department
of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2018
Rebecca Shattuck Lander — ‘To die so far from Dixie: Modeling epidemic dysentery in a Civil
War prison camp,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2015
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Jessica Dimka — ‘Modeling the spread of the 1918 influenza pandemic in a Newfoundland
community,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2015
Carolyn Orbann — ‘Traditional kinship structures and European-derived diseases at Mission San
Diego, California: A study of the 1805-1806 measles epidemic,’ Department of
Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2014
Karen Slonim — ‘ “Send only your serious cases.” Delivering flu to Toronto: An
anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,’
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2010
Joseph Parish — ‘An analysis of the 1875-1877 scarlet fever epidemic of Cape Breton Island,
Nova Scotia,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2004
Helen Cho — ‘Age-associated bone loss in an Imperial Roman population: an histological
analysis of inter-skeletal and intra-skeletal variability,’ Department of Anthropology,
University of Missouri, 2002 (Co-director with Sam Stout)
MA Theses and Research Papers:
Megan Murray — ‘Modeling social connectivity and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu through
Inupiat and Yup’ik communities of Western Alaska, MA thesis, Department of
Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2019
Taylor Paskoff — ‘Sex- and age-based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza
pandemic on the island of Newfoundland’, MA Article Manuscript, Department of
Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2017
Dana Schmidt — ‘Timing of the second epidemiological transition in Newfoundland’, Master’s
Article Manuscript, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2016
Ariel Dombroski — ‘Treatment and transmission factors affecting tuberculosis incidence in the
emerging economies of the post-Soviet Baltic Republics, 1989-2009,’ MA Thesis,
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2011
Caroline Ahillen — ‘Agent-based modeling of the spread of the 1918-1919 Spanish flu in three
Canadian fur trading communities,’ MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of
Missouri, 2006
Connie Carpenter — ‘Agent-based modeling of seasonal population movement and the spread of
the 1918-1919 flu: the effect on a small community,’ MA Thesis, Department of
Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2004
Emily Williams — ‘Whooping cough among Western Cree and Ojibwa fur-trading communities
in subarctic Canada: a mathematical modeling approach,’ MA Thesis, Department of
Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2004
Michele Poe — ‘Mathematical Models for Tuberculosis in the 1990s,’ MA Research Paper,
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1996
Caitlin Hall — ‘Attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of childhood leukemia,’ MA Research Paper,
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1995
Lori Houghton —’Motivations of walkers in Columbia, Missouri,’ MA Thesis, Department of
Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1995
Terri Hutchison — ‘Changing policies and attitudes about economic growth and development in
Columbia,’ MA Research Paper, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1993
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MEMBERSHIPS
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow 2013)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Human Biology Association
Sigma Xi
Social Science History Association
Society for Mathematical Biology
FIELDWORK AND CONSULTING
Archival research on the 1918 flu and other infectious diseases in Newfoundland (2006, 2009)
Consultant on project to develop computer software to model the geographic spread of infectious
diseases — Geoffrey Jacquez, BioMedware, Inc, Ann Arbor, MI, PI (2003-2005)
Consultant on project to study drug injectors’ risk networks and HIV transmission in
Washington, DC — Susan Su, National Opinion Research Center, PI (1997-2001)
Field study of children's social interactions and their influence on a school-related disease
epidemic, Cambridge, England — with Martina Morris, Columbia University (1993)
Consultant on AIDS modeling with C Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University (1990)
Population mobility and the spread of disease in Dominica, West Indies (1989, 1991)
Movement of individuals among day care centers in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1983)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Anthropological epidemiology, medical anthropology, demography, mathematics of human
populations, human population biology and ecology, population genetics
COURSES TAUGHT (University of Missouri only)
General Anthropology, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Plagues and Peoples,
Demographic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Human Biological Variation,
Capstone Seminar in Anthropology, occasional graduate seminars in demography,
infectious disease ecology, and mathematical modeling