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.