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Brad Huber
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Dissertation: "Category Prototypes and the Reinterpretation of Household Fiestas in a Nahuat-Speaking Community of Mexico" (University Microfilms: Ann Arbor, Michigan 86-00658). - M.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
- B.A., Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests
- Human Behavior and Evolution
- Comparative Social Organization
- Medical Anthropology
- Mesoamerica
- Evolutationary Approaches to Kinship, Birth and Marriage
Courses Taught
- ANTH 101: Introduction to Anthropology
- ANTH 201: Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 325: Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
- ANTH 340: Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 342: Human Behavior and Evolution
- ANTH 491: Research Methods
- ANTH 499: Bachelor's Essay
Honors and Awards
- Initiated into Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, September 4, 2012.
- Distinguished Teaching Award, College of Charleston, April 14, 2008.
- Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition for Leadership as a Mentor in the 2004 Summer Undergraduate Research program at the College of Charleston, April 21, 2005.
- Honored for Teaching Excellence, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. 2005, 1998.
- Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Initiatives Promoting Undergraduate Research in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston, 2002.
- Apple for the Teacher Award, College of General Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1986.
Selected Publications
Publications in Refeered Journals
- Fiona Jordan and Brad R. Huber (Co-editors). Special Journal Issue entitled, “Evolutionary approaches to cross-cultural anthropology” Cross-Cultural Research, scheduled to be published May 2013.
- Brad R. Huber, William F. Danaher, and William L. Breedlove. “New Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Marriage Transactions”. Cross-Cultural Research, 45(4): 339-375, 2011. DOI: 10.1177/1069397111402466.
- Brad R. Huber. “Continuity between pre- and postdemographic transition populations with respect to grandparental investment,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(1): 28-29, 2010.
- Brad R. Huber and William L. Breedlove. “Evolutionary Theory, Kinship, and Childbirth in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” Cross-Cultural Research, 41(2):196-219, 2007. DOI: 10.1177/1069397106298261.
Publications of Book Chapters
- Brad R. Huber. “The Nahua,” In Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures, Volume II: Cultures. Pp. 863-872, New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004.
- Brad R. Huber. “Introduction,” In Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom (eds.), Mesoamerican Healers, Pp. 1-18. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, October 2001.
- Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom. "The Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Midwives from the United States-Mexico Border to the Gulf of Tehuantepec," In Brad R. Huber and Alan R. Sandstrom (eds.) Mesoamerican Healers, Pp. 139-178. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, October 2001.
Other completed research and unpublished circulated working papers
- Brad R. Huber, Alan R. Sandstrom, and Antonio Toribio Martinez. Transformations in the Recruitment, Training, and Practice of Midwives in a Nahuat-Speaking Community of Mexico” (unpublished circulated working paper).
- Brad R. Huber, Vendula Linhartova, and Dana Cope. Measuring Paternal Certainty Using Cross-Cultural Data. World Cultures, 15(1): 48-59, 2004.
- Brad R. Huber, Vendula Linhartova, Dana Cope, and Mike Lacy, Evolutionary Theory and Birth-Related Investments by Kin in Cross-Cultural Perspective, World Cultures, 15(1): 60-78. 2004.