PhD, Biological Anthropology, Harvard University, 1990
MA, Anthropology, Harvard University, 1986
MA, Zoology, Indiana University, 1983
BA, Biology, Indiana University, 1982
Anthro 203 - Indigenous Religion
Anthro 301 - Human Evolution and Variation
Anthro 404 - Hormones and Behavior
Anthro 406: Evolutionary Biology & Human Diseases
Anthro 407 - Neuroanthropology
Anthro 446: Child in Different Cultures
My research falls in with life history; the evolutionary study of the human life course. I focus on steroid hormones as a critical link between energetics, the brain and the timing of childhood growth, pubertal maturation, and senescence. In the first phase of my career I did fieldwork in Africa, including time with the Turkana and Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya. I focused on the impact of ecological factors on hormones (mostly testosterone) and the male life course. More recently, I have shifted my attention to adrenarche (the onset of adrenal DHEAS production) and its role in middle childhood. I have published a series of theoretical papers suggest that the primary impact of DHEAS is to promote brain development in humans and the great apes. I am now looking for collaborators with which to test this hypothesis. In addition to my core research, I have also supervised graduate students on topics ranging from primate growth, development and reproduction, to the understanding of evolution among museum patrons and college students.
Link to my ResearchGate site
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin-Campbell-5
Co-organizer, Human Migration Conference, University of Kansas, March 1 & 2, 2010