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 Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
1321 Kincaid Street Eugene, OR 97403 Office: 354 Condon Hall Lab: Center for Medical Education and Research (2nd Floor) Sacred Heart Medical Center 722 E. 11th Avenue Eugene, OR 97401 (directions to the lab) Office Phone: 541-346-4823 Lab Phone: 541-346-0849 Fax: 541-346-0668 E-mail: jjosh@uoregon.edu
Winter
2012 Office Hours: By appointment |
J.
Josh Snodgrass, Ph.D.
Position
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology Director, Human Biology Research Laboratory Areas of Specialization Human Biology; Human Nutrition & Energetics; Evolutionary Medicine; Global Health; Growth & Development; Aging; Human Skeletal Biology Education NIA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Mind and Biology, The
University of Chicago (2004-2005)
M.A., Anthropology, University of Florida (1998) B.A., Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz (1995) Teaching Anth 175: Evolutionary Medicine (Syllabus) Anth 199: Footprints We Leave (Freshman Interest Group College Connections Course) (Syllabus) Anth 270: Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Syllabus) Anth 362: Human Biological Variation (Syllabus) Anth 369: Human Growth & Development (Syllabus) Anth 468/568: Evolutionary Theory (Syllabus) Anth 487/587: Bioanthropology Methods (Syllabus) Anth 610: Current Topics in Biological Anthropology (New Course) (Read more about my courses) Links to My Research Pages Research Interests Publication Archive Shuar Health and Life History Project Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project Bones and Behavior Project Evolutionary Medicine Group Research Interests My research focuses on human health and adaptation and sits at the intersection of human physiology, evolutionary biology, nutritional sciences, epidemiology, and the behavioral sciences. My research focuses on four main topics: 1) Human adaptation to environmental stressors such as extreme cold 2) The influence of economic and cultural change on health, especially cardiovascular disease and diabetes 3) Human/primate energetics and the evolution of the human diet 4) The role of chronic psychosocial stress in shaping health and disease (Read more about my research interests) Collaborative Field Research I am part of several large collaborative research teams and am involved in field research projects in northeastern Siberia (Indigenous Siberian Health and Adaptation Project), the Amazon region of Ecuador (The Shuar Health and Life History Project), and several locations within Oregon. Since 2005, I've also been involved with the World Health Organization's multi-country Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), a longitudinal study of health and well-being in older adults that focuses on nationally representative samples in six countries (China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia, and South Africa). Human Biology Research Laboratory I also direct a human biology research laboratory that focuses on the development and application of minimally invasive techniques (e.g., dried blood spots and saliva) for assessing health and physiology in population-based research. AAPA Portland 2012 UO's Department of Anthropology will host the 81st annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in April 2012 in Portland.  This professional conference, which will be attended by an estimated 2000 people, will be held jointly with several sister organizations, including the Human Biology Association and the Paleopathology Assocation. For more information, check out the AAPA 2012 Meeting Website. Recent Press Click here for a recent article from Science on the evolution of the human diet, which discusses some of my research. Click here for a recent Room for Debate opinion piece from The New York Times that discusses the effects of recent secular trends in height and longevity, and responds to the question "Do we want to be supersize humans?" Current Research Projects
Bones and Behavior
I'm also a co-organizer (with Susan Antón of NYU) of the Bones and Behavior Working Group, and I manage the website bonesandbehavior.org. Our group is dedicated to fostering a greater synthesis across biological anthropology with the specific aim of developing integrative approaches to research questions concerning human and primate adaptation. Evolutionary Medicine Group I coordinate the Evolutionary Medicine Group, which is a discussion and project group that meets every other Tuesday during the academic year to discuss recent research in evolutionary medicine and to develop and pursue collaborative research projects. Papers Under Review
McClure HH, Eddy JM, Kjellstrand JM, Snodgrass JJ, and Martinez CR. Links between child and adolescent behavioral distress and elevated adult body mass index. J Child Psychiatry Hum Develop. McClure HH, Snodgrass JJ, Martinez CR, Eddy JM, McDade TW, Hyers MJ, and Johnstone-Diaz A. Feasibility of integrating biomarkers into research with Latino immigrants. Hispanic J Behav Sci. Squires EC, McClure HH, Martinez CR, Eddy JM, Jimenez RA, Isiordia LE, and Snodgrass JJ. Diurnal cortisol rhythms among Latino immigrants in Oregon, USA. J Physiol Anthropol. Madimenos FC, Snodgrass JJ, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, and Sugiyama LS. Reproductive effects on skeletal health in Shuar women of Amazonian Ecuador: A life history perspective. Am J Hum Biol. Forthcoming Publications Snodgrass JJ. 2012.
Human energetics. In: Stinson et al. (eds.) Human Biology: An
Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach (2nd Edition).
New York: Wiley, in press.
Muchlinski MN, Snodgrass JJ, and Terranova CJ. 2012. Muscle mass scaling in primates: An energetic and ecological perspective. Am J Primatol, in press. Selected Publications Snodgrass JJ. 2011. Review of The Evolutionary Biology of Human Body Fatness (by JCK Wells). Q Rev Biol 86: 367-368. (link to article) Snodgrass JJ. 2011. Review of Human Evolutionary Biology (by MP Muehlenbein). Am J Hum Biol 23: 724-725. (link to article) Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Klimova TM, Fedorova VI, Baltakhinova ME, Krivoshapkin VG. 2011. Metabolic adaptation in the Yakut (Sakha). Yakut Medical Journal 2(34): 11-14 (in Russian).  Madimenos FC, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Liebert MA, Sugiyama LS. 2011. Physical activity in an indigenous Ecuadorian forager-horticulturalist population as measured using accelerometry. Am J Hum Biol 23: 488-497. (link to article) Blackwell AD, Gurven MD, Sugiyama LS, Madimenos FC, Liebert MA, Martin MA, Kaplan HS, Snodgrass JJ. 2011. Evidence for a peak shift in a humoral response to helminths: Age profiles of IgE in the Shuar of Ecuador, the Tsimane of Bolivia, and the U.S. NHANES. PLoS Neglect Trop D 5: e1218. Madimenos FC, Snodgrass JJ, Blackwell AD, Liebert MA, Cepon TJ, Sugiyama LS. 2011. Normative calcaneal quantitative ultrasound data for the indigenous Shuar and non-Shuar Colonos of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Arch Osteoporosis 6: 39-49. (link to article) Cepon TJ, Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Klimova TM, Fedorova VI, Baltakhinova ME, Krivoshapkin VG. 2011. Circumpolar adaptation, social change, and the development of autoimmune thyroid disorders among the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia. Am J Hum Biol 23: 703-709. (link to article) Leonard WR, Robertson ML, Snodgrass JJ. 2010. What did humans evolve to eat? Metabolic implications of major trends in hominid evolution. In: Moffat and Prowse (eds.) Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Past Meets Present. New York: Berghahn Books. Blackwell AD, Snodgrass JJ, Madimenos FC, Sugiyama LS. 2010. Life history, immune function, and intestinal helminths: Trade-offs among immunoglobulin E, C-reactive protein, and growth in an Amazonian population. Am J Hum Biol 22: 836-848. (cover photo)Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, et al. 2010. Impaired fasting glucose and the metabolic syndrome among an indigenous Siberian population. Int J Circumpol Health 69: 87-98. McClure HH, Snodgrass JJ, Martinez CR, Eddy JM, Jimenez RA, Isiordia LE. 2010. Discrimination, psychosocial stress, and health among Latin American immigrants in Oregon. Am J Hum Biol 22: 421-423. Raichlen DA, Gordon AD, Muchlinski MN, Snodgrass JJ. 2010. Causes and significance of variation in mammalian basal metabolism. J Comp Physiol B 180: 301-311. Snodgrass JJ and Leonard WR. 2009. Neandertal energetics revisited: Insights into population dynamics and life history evolution. PaleoAnthropology 2009: 220-237. Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Robertson ML. 2009. The energetics of encephalization in early hominids. In: JJ Hublin & M Richards (eds.) Evolution of Hominid Diets: Integrating Approaches to the Study of Palaeolithic Subsistence. Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 15-29. Sorensen MV, Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Tarskaya LA, Ivanov KI, Krivoshapkin VG, Alekseev VP. 2009. Lifestyle incongruity, stress and immune function in indigenous Siberians: The health impact of rapid social and economic change. Am J Phys Anthropol 138: 62-69. Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Sorensen MV, Tarskaia LA, Mosher MJ. 2008. The influence of basal metabolic rate on blood pressure among indigenous Siberians. Am J Phys Anthropol 137: 145-155. Snodgrass JJ, Sorensen MV, Tarskaia LA, Leonard WR. 2007. Adaptive dimensions of health research among indigenous Siberians. Am J Hum Biol 19: 165-180. (cover
photo) McDade TW, Williams SR, Snodgrass JJ. 2007. What a drop can do: Dried blood spots as a minimally-invasive method for integrating biomarkers in population-based research. Demography 44: 899-925. Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Schoeller DA. 2006. Total energy expenditure in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia as measured by the doubly labeled water method. Am J Clin Nutr 84: 798-806. Snodgrass JJ, Leonard WR, Tarskaia LA, Alekseev VP, Krivoshapkin VG. 2005. Basal metabolic rate in the Yakut (Sakha) of Siberia. Am J Hum Biol 17: 155-172. (cover photo) (Go to Publication Archive) Note: All articles are the sole copyright of the respective publishers. Materials are provided for educational use only. |
