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BONNIE L. HEWLETT
Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS
Department of Anthropology
Washington State University
14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98686-9600
(360) 546-9449 (O)
(360) 546-9036 (F)
(541) 541-264-8199 (H)
EDUCATION
2001-2004 / Washington State University, PullmanDissertation: “Aka and Ngandu Adolescents of
Central African Republic”, Dr. John Bodley, chair / Ph.D. Anthropology
1999-2001 / Washington State University, Pullman / M.A. Anthropology
1996-1999 / Washington State University, Vancouver / B.A. Social Science
1982-1985 / Clark College, Vancouver, WA / R.N.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2006-Present
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Washington State University Vancouver, WA
2010-2011 Academic year
Fulbright Scholar
Anthropology Program
Hawassa University
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State
Hawassa, Ethiopia
2004-2010
Instructor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Oregon State University Corvallis, OR
2004
Instructor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Willamette University Salem, OR
PROFESSIONAL NURSING EXPERIENCE
1985-1996 / Registered Nurse, Southwest Washington Medical Center, Neonatal Intensive Care1987-1993 / Neonatal Advance Life Support, clinical instructor
1995-1996 / Childbirth instructor
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003 / Medical Anthropologist, World Health Organization, Geneva, SwitzerlandInternational team to respond to Ebola outbreak in Republic of Congo
2000 / Teaching Assistant (Medical Anthropology), Washington State University, Vancouver
1999 / Project Coordinator, Congo Education Project, Vancouver, WA
GRANTS
January 2014 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Hideaki Tereshima, P.I.) to conduct research on social learning among Chabu ($30,000)
August 2013 Berry Family Fellowship (Rob Quinlan, P.I.)to further develop SW Ethiopia Collaborative Research, specifically orphans and relinquishment by birth mothers ($3000)
March 2012 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Hideaki Tereshima, P.I.) to conduct research on social learning among Chabu and Aka hunter-gatherers ($30,000)
March 2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Hideaki Tereshima, P.I.) testing evolutionary models of learning among Aka adolescents ($30,000)
March 2011 U.S. Department of State Partnership Award (Barry Hewlett, P.I.) to develop collaboration between the departments of anthropology at Washington State University and Hawassa University, Ethiopia ($15,000)
October 2004-June 2005 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Michael Lamb and Barry Hewlett P.I.) support of field studies of Aka and Ngandu children ($10,000)
July 2004-August 2004. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH Barry Hewlett co-P.I.) to determine the prevalence of a non-expressing 11B mutation in Aka of the Central African Republic ($10,000).
FIELDS of SPECIAL INTEREST:
Medical Anthropology, Gender, Social Learning and Cultural Transmission, International Development, Child and Adolescent Development, Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, Biosocial Evolution, Hunters and Gatherers
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Hewlett, B.L. 2013. Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives. London:Routledge University Press.
Hewlett , B.L. 2012. Listen, Here is a Story: Ethnographic Life Narratives from Aka and Ngandu Women of the Congo Basin. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hewlett , B.S and B. L. Hewlett. 2008. Ebola, Culture, Politics: The Anthropology of an Emerging Disease. Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues. Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Hewlett, B.L. 2014.“Ekeloko”: The Spirit to Create–Innovation and Social Learning Among Aka Adolescents of the Central African Rainforest. In Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans. Springer Press.
Hewlett, B.L. 2013. Adolescent Identity, Risk, and Change: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives. In Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives. B.L. Hewlett (ed). London: Routledge University Press.
Hewlett, B.L. 2013. Hunter-Gatherer Adolescence. In Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives. B.L. Hewlett (ed). London: Routledge University Press.
Hewlett, B.S., Fouts, H.N., Boyette, A.H., Hewlett, B.L. 2012.Social learning among Congo Basin
hunter–gatherers. InCulture Evolves. A. Whiten, R.A. Hinde, C.B. Stringer, K.N. Laland (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schlegel, A. and B.L. Hewlett. 2011. Contributions of Anthropology to the Study of Adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Volume 21, Issue 1; pgs 281-289. March 2011.
Hewlett, B.S., Fouts, H.N., Boyette, A.H., Hewlett, B.L. 2011.Social learning among Congo Basin
hunter–gatherers. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B April 12, 2011 366:1168-1178.
Hewlett, B.S. and B.L. Hewlett. 2010. Sex and Searching for Children Among Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of Central Africa. African Study Monographs Vol. 31 (2010) No.3 pp. 107-125.
Hewlett, B. L. and B. S. Hewlett. 2008. Love, jealousy and anger among the Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers of Central African Republic. InLove and Intimacy Across Cultures, William Jankowiak, ed. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Hewlett, B.L and B. S Hewlett. 2005. Providing care and facing death: Nurses and Ebola in Central Africa. Transcultural Journal of Nursing 16: 289-297.
Hewlett, B.S, A. Epelboin, B. L. Hewlett & P. Formenty. 2005. Medical anthropology and Ebola in Congo: Cultural models and humanistic care. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique 98: 230-243.
Hewlett, B. L. 2005. Vulnerable lives: Death, loss and grief among Aka and Ngandu adolescents of the Central African Republic. InCulture and Ecology of Hunter-Gatherer Children, Barry S. Hewlett and Michael E. Lamb, eds. NY: Aldine.
Hewlett, B. L. 2001. Adolescent culture: An exploration of the socio-emotional development of the Aka adolescents of the Central African Republic. The Oriental Anthropologist (India)1: 84-96.
In Preparation
Hewlett, B. L. Intercultural and intracultural variability in the health of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer adolescents of the Central African Republic. In preparation for Evolution and Human Behavior.
Hewlett, B. L. Age, gender, ethnicity and health status in Aka forager and Ngandu farmers. In preparation for American Journal of Human Biology.
Hewlett, B. L. The effect of health status and parasite load on the perception of physical attractiveness among the Aka Forager and Ngandu Farmer Adolescents of the Central African Republic. In preparation for Current Anthropology.
FIELD EXPERIENCE
Ethiopia research
January-February 2014
Relinquishment of babies to orphanages by birth others and fathers. Chabu social learning and innovation.
July-August 2013
Research topic: Continued research on relinquishment of babies to orphanages by birthmothers.
March 2013
Research topic: Relinquishment of babies to orphanages by birthmothers.Chabu demography and social learning.
May-June 2012
Research topic: Ethnography of an orphanage: Attachment, health, orphans and birth mothers.
September-July 2010-2011
Research topic: Vulnerable children: Ethnography of an orphanage.
Research with African Congo Basin Forest Foragers and Farmers
February 2012
Research topic: Social learning and innovation among Aka adolescents.
September 2010
Research topic: Social learning and teaching in hunter-gatherer adolescents; Life narrative histories of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer women
June-July 2008
Research topic: Life narrative histories of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer women.
September-November 2007
Research topic: Bioaccumulation of environmental contaminants in breastmilk of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer women. Life histories of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer women.
November-December 2005
Research topics: follow up study of sexual behavior of specific age groups of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer females.
August 2004
Research topic: Intercultural and intracultural variation in the health of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer adolescents; sexual behavior of specific age groups of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer females; mid-wife research.
October- December 2003
Research topic: Intercultural and intracultural variation in the health of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer adolescents.
August 2002
Research topic: Death, loss and grief in Aka and Ngandu adolescents.
January-February 2001
Research topic: Death, grief and loss in Aka and Ngandu adolescents.
July-September 2000
Research topic: Socio-emotional development of Aka adolescents.
Research in Tropical Medicine and Development:
August-September 2004 NE Gabon, preliminary research on the cultural contexts of Ebola.
February-March 2003 Northern Republic of Congo, World Health Organization Behavioral Scientist, Ebola outbreak control efforts.
Other Research:
Sept 2008 Mauritania, Preliminary examining of allonursing among Mauritanian women.
April 2004 Egypt, Preliminary research on woman artists.
PAPERS/INVITED PRESENTATIONS
June 2013. “Ekeloko”: The Spirit to Create–Innovation and Social Learning Among Aka Adolescents of the Central African Rainforest. 10th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, Liverpool, UK.
Nov 2012Invited participant, 2012 International Conference onReplacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans:Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning “Innovation: processes of social learning and modes of cultural transmission amongst Aka adolescent foragers of Central Africa” Nov 18-24.
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo Japan.
Nov 2012Invited participant, 2012 Inter-Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) on Children and Youth in a Changing World. “Innovation: processes of social learning and modes of cultural transmission amongst Aka adolescent foragers of Central Africa” November 26-30. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India.
Feb 2011Invited participant, The Second Conference on Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans: Testing Evolutionary Models of Learning. “Social Learning among Aka Adolescents: A Preliminary Study” February 19-20th. Kobe Gakuin University, Kobe Japan.
May 2011 Invited lecturer Kyoto University, African Studies Institute and Toyama University, Japan: “Medical Ecology and Emerging Diseases”.
Feb 2010Special Workshop University of New Mexico: Recent Research Among Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers. “Walking in the Forest Together: Characteristic Features of Aka Adolescence”.
Feb 2010Annual Conference of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and Society for Anthropological Sciences Albuquerque New Mexico. Discussant SCCR Session: Recent Advances in Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherer Research. Chair SCCR Session: Diverse Contexts of Congo-Basin Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle and Subsistence.
Sept 2012International Conference on Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers. “Aka foragers as a baseline for a hunter-gatherer model of adolescence.” September 22-24. Montpellier, France.
July 2009 Invited lecturer Toyama University, Japan: Love and Sex among the Aka foragers.
July 2009Invited lecturer Kyoto University, African Studies Institute and Toyama University, Japan: “Marginalization of Aka foragers”.
Feb 2008Annual Meeting Society for Cross-Cultural Research and Society for Anthropological Sciences. New Orleans, Louisiana. Session organizer and chair: The Inner Worlds of the Adolescent.
Feb 2008Program Committee, Annual Meeting Society for Cross-Cultural Research. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Feb 2006Annual Meeting Society for Cross-Cultural Research and Society for Anthropological Sciences San Antonio, Texas. “The effect of health status and parasite load on the perception of physical attractiveness among the Aka Forager and Ngandu Farmer Adolescents of the Central African Republic.”
Sep 2006Winnipeg, Canada. Invited lecture: “Cultural contexts of Ebola: Applications to outbreak management”. Filoviruses: Recent Advances and Future Challenges: An ICID Global Symposium.
Nov 2006American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. “Intercultural and intracultural variability in the health of Aka forager and Ngandu farmer adolescents of the Central African Rainforest”.
Oct 2005University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Two invited lectures; “Sex and searching for children” and “Ebola: The anthropology of an infectious disease”.
Feb 2005Society for Anthropological Sciences, Santa Fe. “Love, sex and anger among the Aka Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of the Central African Republic”.
Dec. 2004Anthropology Colloquium Series. “Emerging disease: Ebola, culture, and politics in Central Africa”.
March 2003 Invited participant and discussant on Harvard Ebola Task Force.
Sept 2002International Conference of Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Edinburgh, Scotland.
“Vulnerable lives: The experience of death, loss and grief among the Aka adolescents of Central African Republic”
Nov 2002American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Death in the forest”.
June 2001International Conference on Child Focused Studies: Children In Their Places
Brunel University, London. “Adolescent culture: An exploration of the socio-emotional development of the Aka adolescents of the Central African Republic”
April 2000Northwest Anthropological Conference, Newport, OR.
“Aka adolescents: Silent voices of the forest”
Nov 2000American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA.
“ The social and emotional context of Aka adolescent development”
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
1999-present American Anthropological Association
1999-presentSociety for Cross-Cultural Research
1999-presentSociety for Anthropological Sciences