Alan Goodman

Biography
Alan Goodman, professor of biological anthropology, teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic processes such as poverty, inequality and racism. His work includes studies in the American Southwest, and he directs a long-term project on under nutrition and child development in Mexico and Egypt. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. Before coming to Hampshire, he was a postdoctoral fellow in International Nutrition at University of Connecticut and a research fellow in stress physiology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He is also an Associate Director of the New York African Burial Ground Project and the President of the American Anthropological Association (2005-2007). Alan Goodman is presently serving as the Dean of Faculty.

Publications

 * Essay published in book, Blended Nation, on race (learn more)

Additional Information

 * Fall 2009 Convocation Address: Individualized ≠ Individualism