Fall 2011 -     Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada Las Vegas

2010 - 2011    Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Varki Lab
                               University of California, San Diego
                             •  N-glycolylneuraminic acid in the human diet

2009 - 2010       Postdoctoral Researcher: Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA),
                              University of California, San Diego
                              •  Food sharing networks among Hadza children
                              • Grant writing; graduate program development; website development; program representative

    2008                  Graduate Student Researcher: Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), 
                              University of  California, San Diego
                              • Project development and support

    2007                 Research Assistant: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Working Group, UC  San Diego
                              • Folklore and creation of the Kumeyaay Native Americans

    2006                 Visiting Researcher: Department of Anthropology, Nutritional Ecology Lab, Harvard University
                               • Macronutrient analysis of Hadza diet

2004 -2006         Fieldwork: Tanzania
                              • Allomaternal Care and Juvenile Foraging among the Hadza; the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Humans
                              • Foraging, Food Sharing and Family Formation among Hadza foragers

 2003                 Research Assistant: Department of Anthropology, Paleodiet Laboratory, University of California, San Diego
                              • Sexual division of labor among Hadza foragers

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2011 –   Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
                    • Evolution of the Human Brain
                    • Hunters and Gatherers
                    • Language and Culture
                    • History of Anthropological Theory
                    • Introduction to Biological Anthropology
                    • The Anthropology of Women and Men

2006         Instructor: Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

                   • Human Evolution
                   • The Fate of the Neanderthals

2002-08   Teaching Assistant: Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
                  • Evolution of the Human Brain
                  • Evolution of the Human Diet
                  • Human Origins
                  • The Human Skeleton
                  • Cultural Anthropology
                  • Introduction to Egyptology

2006         Teaching Assistant: Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego
                   • Making of the Modern World: Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization

2001         Instructional Assistant: Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz
                   • Primate Behavioral Ecology

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
2011 - 2012        Symposium Grant, School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 - 2009      Social Science Research & Travel Grant, University of California, San Diego
2006                     President's Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego
2001 - 2006       Dean's Fellowship for Graduate Study, University of California, San Diego
2005                     F.G. Bailey Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego
2004                     Diane Lin Scholarship, International Center, University of California, San Diego

PUBLICATIONS

Cashdan, E., F.W. Marlowe, A.N. Crittenden, C. Porter, and B.M. Wood. (2012)  Sex differences in spatial cognition among Hadza foragers. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Crittenden, A.N. (2011) The Importance of Honey Consumption in Human Evolution. Food and Foodways 19:4, 257-273.

Berbesque, J.C., F.W. Marlowe. and A.N. Crittenden. (2011) Sex differences in Hadza eating frequency by food type. American Journal of Human Biology 23(3): 339-345.

Crittenden, A.N. (2010) The Hadza of Tanzania. Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, Edited by Bernard Wood. Wiley-Blackwell.

Crittenden, A.N. (2010) Hunter-gatherers. Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, Edited by Bernard Wood. Wiley-Blackwell.

Crittenden, A.N. and F.W. Marlowe. (2008)  Allomaternal care among the Hadza of Tanzania. Human Nature 19 (3): 249-263. Cover Photo by A.N. Crittenden.

Crittenden, A.N., N.L. Conklin-Brittain,  J. Benjamin, M.J. Schoeninger, and F.W. Marlowe. (In Review) Juvenile Foraging among the Hadza Hunter-gatherers of Tanzania: Implications for the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Humans. Evolution and Human Behavior.

Crittenden, A.N., D.A. Zes, and F.W. Marlowe. (In Review) Children's Food Sharing Networks among the Hadza.

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
2011    Hadza Diet Composition and the Evolution of the Human Diet. Invited Talk. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Upcoming - March 2012.

2011    Multiple Perspectives on Childhood Economics. Session Co-organizer and Chair. Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Annual Meeting: Las Vegas, Nevada. Upcoming - February 2012.

2011    The Ontogeny of Prosocial Behavior: Food Sharing Networks of Hadza Hunter-Gatherer Children. Invited Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. October 2011.

2011           Cooperative Care among the Hadza: Situating Multiple Attachment in Evolutionary Context. Invited Talk. Lemelson/Society for Psychological Anthropology Conference: Rethinking Attachment and Separation in Cross-Cultural Perspective. May 2011.

2010         Diet Composition and Food Sharing among the Hadza. Invited Talk. Academic Connections, University of California, San Diego. July 2010.

2010        Juvenile Food Sharing among the Hadza of Tanzania. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Annual Meeting: Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2010         Cooperative Child Rearing among the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania. Invited Talk. San Diego Museum of Man.     

2010         Allomaternal Care and Juvenile Foraging among the Hadza: Implications for the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Humans. Invited Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

2010        Hard Working Hadza Children: Implications for the evolution of cooperative breeding in humans. Society for Cross Cultural Research/Society for Anthropological Sciences/American Anthropological Association's Anthropology of Children and Childhood Interest Group, Annual Meeting: Albuquerque, New Mexico.

2009         Foraging Strategies and Diet Composition of Hadza Children. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Annual Meeting: Chicago, Illinois. 
 
2008        Cooperative Child Rearing among the Hadza. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting: San Francisco, California.

2008        Cooperative Care among the Hadza Foragers of Tanzania. Society for Anthropological Sciences, Annual Meeting: New Orleans, Louisiana.

2006        The Helping Behavior of Hadza Children: Childcare and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Humans. Invited Session: Cultural Dimensions of Kin Investment: The Foundations of Kinship and Family. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting: San Jose, California.

2006        Alloparenting among the Hadza of Tanzania. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Annual Meeting: Anchorage, Alaska.

2004        Diet Composition and Differential Foraging Strategies of Hadza Men and Women. Invited Talk. Graduate Research Symposium, UCSD.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)
American Association of University Women (AAUW)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2010        Contributing Author, Museum of Comparative Anthropogeny (MOCA), Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), UC San Diego

2010        Alumni Representative Fellow, Marketing and Communications, University of California, San Diego

2010        Biological Anthropology Colloquium Organizer, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

2009        Graduate Student Representative Fellow, Division of Social Sciences Development Department, University of California, San Diego

2007        Graduate Enrichment Coordinator, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego

JOURNAL REFEREE
Current Anthropology
Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective
Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITS AND HONORS

2010        Photo: Two girls babysit and carry their young siblings. In The Hadza Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania by Frank Marlowe. Page 206. Berkeley: University of California Press. March 2010.

2009        Photo: Thirst Quencher – Hadza hunter-gatherers dig tubers for water. In "Of Tools and Tubers" Science 324: 588-589. April 2009.

2009        Photos: (1) Hadza babysitters (2) Research among the Hadza. In Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk. Page 67. New York: Basic Books. 2009.

2008        Photo: Hadza Allomothers. Human Nature 19(3) Special Edition on Kin Investment. Cover Photo. September 2008.

2007        Photo: Wire, Animal Hide, Glass, and Plastic. Body art from the Maasai of Tanzania. The Point, The Quarterly Journal of the Association of Professional Piercers  39. Page 6. May 2007.

2007        Photo Exhibit: The Hadza Foragers of Tanzania, East Africa. Invisible Children Gallery Walk. Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Center, San Diego, California. January - March 2007.

2006        Photo Exhibit: The Hadza and Maasai of Tanzania. In Body Ornamentation: Artistic Representations of Self, San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego California. March - December 2006

MEDIA COVERAGE OF RESEARCH

Science, Nature, BBC, Smithsonian, National Public Radio, American Scientist, Las Vegas Review Journal,  UNLV Rebel Yell, UCSD Magazine, San Diego City Beat