Dr. Andrea Wiley
Professor of Anthropology

Office Location: Sheldon Hall 210
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 568-6984
E-mail: wileyas@jmu.edu

Website
Coordinator, Human Science minor
Link to Human Science Minor

Teaching:
Introductory and Advanced Biological Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Demography; Diet and Nutrition; Human Biological Variation

Research:
Human adaptability, particularly to stressful environments such as high altitude;

Human health and disease, especially maternal and infant health within an evolutionary framework;

Adaptive significance of human dietary behavior;

Determinants of fertility and mortality in human populations;

South Asia, particularly the Himalaya and India

Education:
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley

Recent Publications:
Wiley, Andrea S. and John S. Allen Medical Anthropology:  A Biocultural Perspective. Oxford University Press (in press)

Wiley, Andrea S. (2004) An Ecology of High-altitude Infancy:  A Biocultural Perspective.  New York:  Cambridge
University Press.

Wiley, Andrea S. (2005) Does milk make children grow? Relationships between milk consumption and height in NHANES 1999-2002.  American Journal of Human
Biology 17(4): 425-441.

Wiley, Andrea S. (2004) “Drink milk for fitness:” the cultural politics of human biological variation and milk consumption in the United States.  American Anthropologist 106 (3):506-517.

Vitzthum, Virginia J. and Andrea S. Wiley (2003)  The proximate determinants of fertility in populations exposed to chronic hypoxia. High Altitude Medicine and Biology 4 (2):125-139.