Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
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Office: Matthews Center 203M

SHESC Themes: Biocultural Dimensions of Global Health; Human Origins, Evolution and Diversity

Field Specializations: Medical anthropology, biocultural anthropology

Regional Focus: South Asia, Central Asia

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, 2006-2009

Ph.D., Emory University, 2006

M.P.H., Emory University, 2003

Research

Dan Hruschka studies culture change and the relationship between culture and behavior.  His two main research questions focus on how we stay healthy in diverse social environments and how humans cooperate.

Teaching

Hruschka teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including Culture and Health: Medical Anthropology, Society & Drugs, Introduction to Global Health and Health: Social and Biocultural Theories. Hruschka also serves as a committee member in the graduate program.

Recent Publications

Books

Hruschka DJ.  2010.  Friendship: Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Social Relationship. U niversity of California Press. 

Articles

Hruschka DJ, C Efferson, T Jiang, A Falletta-Cowden,* S Sigurdsson, R McNamara, M Sands,* S Munira, E Slingerland, and J Henrich (2014).  Impartial institutions, parasite stress and the expanding social network. Human Nature. 25:4.

Hruschka DJ, Hadley C, Brewis A. (2014) Disentangling basal and accumulated body mass for cross-population comparisons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 153:4, 542-550.

London D*, Hruschka DJ. Helminths and human ancestral immune ecology: What is the evidence for high helminth loads among foragers? American Journal of Human Biology. 26:2, 124-129.

Hadley C, Hruschka DJ. (2014) Population level differences in adult body mass emerge in infancy and early childhood: Evidence from a global sample of low and lower-income countries. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 154:2, 232-238.

Hruschka DJ, Henrich J (2013). Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism.  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7, 559.

Hruschka DJ, Brewis AA (2013). Absolute wealth and world region strongly predict overweight among women (ages 18-49) in 360 populations across 36 developing countries. Economics and Human Biology. 11:3, 337-344.

Hruschka DJ, Henrich J (2013). Institutions, parasites and the persistence of in-group preferences. PLOS ONE. 8:5, e63642

Hruschka DJ, Rush E, Brewis AA (2013).  Accounting for population differences in the relationship between height, weight and fat mass: an application of Burton’s model.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 151: 1, 68-76.

Hackman J*, Hruschka DJ. (2013). Fast life histories, not pathogens, account for U.S. state-level variation in homicide, maltreatment, family ties, and religiosity. Evolution and Human Behavior. 34:2, 118-124.

Hruschka DJ, Maupin J (2013). Competence, Agreement, and Luck: Testing Whether Some People Agree More with a Cultural Truth than Do Others. Field Methods. 25:2, 107-123.

Hruschka DJ (2012). Do economic constraints on food choice make people fat? A critical review of two hypotheses for the poverty-obesity paradox.  American Journal of Human Biology. 24:3, 277-285.
 

Pervin J, Rahman M, Rahshid H, Razzaque A, Koblinsky M, Moran A, Hruschka DJ, Rahman A (2012). Association of antenatal care with delivery practice and perinatal mortality in a rural setting in Bangladesh. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 12, 111

Kohrt B, Hruschka DJ, Kunz RD, Baldwin JL, Upadhaya N, Sharma VD, Nepal MK, Koirala S, Thapa S, Tol WA, Jordans MJD, Rodkin N, Worthman CM (2012). Political violence and mental health in Nepal: a prospective study.  British Journal of Psychiatry.  11, 268-75.

Edmonds JK*, Hruschka DJ, Bernard HR, Sibley L(2012). Women’s social networks and birth attendant decisions: application of the network episode model. Social Science and Medicine. 74:3 452-459.

Rahman A, Moran A, Pervin J, Rahman A, Rahman M, Yeasmin S, Begum H, Rashid H, Yunus M, Hruschka DJ, Arifeen S, Streatfield PK, Sibley L, Bhuiya A, Koblinsky M (2012). Effectiveness of an integrated approach to reduce perinatal mortality: Recent experiences from Matlab, Bangladesh. BMC Public Health. 11:914, 1-14.

Hruschka DJ, Brewis AA, Wutich A, Morin B* (2011).  Shared norms and their explanation for the social contagion of obesity. American Journal of Public Health. 101:S295–S300.

Brewis A, Hruschka DJ, Wutich A (2011). Vulnerability to fat-stigma in women's everyday relationships. Social Science and Medicine. 73:4, 491-497.

Recent Grants

National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program. BCS-1150813 . CAREER: Social Closeness, Helping and Neglect: Examining the Roots of Favoritism in Rural Bangladesh, 2012-2017 (DJ Hruschka, PI, $505K). Jointly funded by Social Psychology Program and Decision, Risk, and  Management Sciences Program.

National Science Foundation, REG Supplement for Graduate Student, J. Hackman. 2013-2014. $5K.

National Science Foundation (BCS-1150813 ), REU Supplement for Undergraduate Student, M. Sands. 2012-2013. $4K.

National Institutes of Health ( 13054157 ) , The Role of Friendship Networks on BMI and Behaviors among College Freshmen. 2013-2017. (M Bruening, PI, with multiple co-Is, DJ Hruschka, co-I, $1,250K)

School of Advanced Research and National Science Foundation. The Evolutionary Demography of Fertility: the Influence of Social Networks.” Funding for Short Research Team Seminar, 2012 (M Shenk, R Sear, DJ Hruschka, co-PIs).

New Science of Virtues Grant, University of Chicago and Templeton Foundation. Virtues in conflict: a cross-cultural study of virtue dilemmas and their resolution, 2010-2012 (DJ Hruschka, PI; J Henrich, C Efferson, co-PIs, $215K).