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Julienne N. Rutherford, Ph.D.Julienne N. Rutherford, Ph.D.Women, Children, and Family Health ScienceUniversity of Illinois at Chicago Tweet me! @JNRUTHERFORD
Holism and inclusivity in anthropological scholarship and community
Drs. Wille and Rutherford (2007) Commencement!
“One day, in retrospect,
the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Sigmund Freud (who was never a grad student)
Student Building, 1906
A Biological anthropologist An Evolutionary biologist A Translational scientist A Comparative primatologist A PLACENTAL ECOLOGIST
Adapted from Rutherford 2009, Am J Hum Biol 21(6): 745-753
MATERNAL GESTATIONAL ECOLOGY
•Birth weight•Organogenesis & maturation
Me + Placenta 4-eva!!!
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Placental development and function in primates
Medical sciences
Animal behavior
MomBaby
Get a stack (or a “stack”)
Read them with no particular agenda
Make a note of the articles that you find most interesting
Voilà!
Accept that it will be hard Find out your financial options and
thoughtfully consider the consequences
Make good friends (especially OUTSIDE the department!)
Pursue your mentors. They are very busy with research and service and need you to guide them
Don’t work all the time
Nature 463, 574 (27 January 2010) | 10.1038/nj7280-574a
Overcoming the barriers to confidence•Form writing groups•Find a counselor•Engage in non-academic activities you enjoy•ASK QUESTIONS – i.e. “expose” yourself as an imposter
“The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.”
Pied tamarin
Emperor tamarin
Pygmy marmoset
Golden lion tamarin
Common marmoset
Common marmoset
They do this too:
The bigger the litter, the more stressful the intrauterine environment.(Jaquish et al 1991; Rutherford & Tardif 2008, 2009; Rutherford et al. 2009; Rutherford 2009, 2012a and b)
Does adult reproductive function differ between adult twin & triplet females?(Rutherford et al. R&R, PLoS ONE)
Triplet females losethree times as many fetuses
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(Rutherford et al., R&R, PLoS ONE)
3 anthropoid primate species: Common marmoset Vervet Human
NIH R01: “Womb to Womb: Programming of reproductive development in the common marmoset monkey”
Prospective study of reproductive development and function from fetal period to first pregnancy of female common
marmosets: three generations in five years
Acute phase: YEAH!!!!!
Chronic state: WHAT NOW?!?!?
“There is often a gap in professional academic training, a gap that is felt acutely once the euphoria of completing the
Ph.D. wears off. It's the gap of professional development, collaboration, and comradery. Although it can feel like a
lifetime, graduate school is just the starting point of an academic career...”
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Grantwriting assistance and practice Professionalization seminars and
workshops at IU, through AGSA, etc. Career development activities at AAPA
(e.g. Saturday luncheon talks, PA WMN, BANDIT receptions, etc.) and other professional societies
Peer networks on social media (e.g. private groups on Facebook, Google+, etc.)
Personal interrogation of professional identity
Personal interrogation of professional identity
"To be a good fit for AA, (Editor Michael) Chibnik suggests a piece should be “understandable to nonspecialists and [lack] the extensive use of terms unfamiliar to most of our readers. This poses particular problems [emphasis added] for biological anthropologists, whose work often entails specialized techniques about which most sociocultural anthropologists and archaeologists know little. Biological anthropologists therefore need to be particularly careful to write in a way that is comprehensible to the generalized readership of the journal” (Chibnik, 2013. American Anthropologist 115[3]: 357).
Rutherford, 2013 http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/12/04/american-anthropologists-particular-problem-with-biological-anthropology/
"Singling out biological anthropologists as representing a ‘particular problem’ reinforces the pervasive premise that sociocultural anthropology is normative anthropology, and the measure against which all other specialties are compared (and apparently fall short).”
Rutherford, 2013 http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2013/12/04/american-anthropologists-particular-problem-with-biological-anthropology/
Do we demand colleagues to explain exactly how what they do is “real” anthropology?
Do we expect them to fit in rather than making space for them?
Do we expect them to teach us rather than taking ownership of learning?
Do we fail to recognize what this models for our trainees in terms of inclusiveness and collegiality?
AAA 2013Entangling the Biological: Steps Toward an Integrat ive Anthropology
• Cluster 1: The legacy of human childhood and families – Lewton, Cowgill, McKenna, Gettler, Nelson
• Cluster 2: Race, health, and meaning – Van Arsdale, Gravlee
• Cluster 3: Ethics & cultural contexts of ethnoprimatology – Bezanson, Riley, Strier
• Cluster 4: Programmatic manifestos about inclusivity of training– Fuentes, Park
These are not obviously biological categories. They are anthropological.
“Although not figural or immediately evocative of a particular landscape…the nonlinear geometric nature of [Jackson] Pollock’s most famous works may be why these paintings resonate so strongly (primevally?) with the viewer, why their patterns are at once abstract and recognizably regular, like trees and coastlines and rivers.
…it may be that the branching nature of sub-sub-subdisciplinary splintering and subsequent coalescence is what we as biological anthropologists recognize in our own work and in that of our colleagues. Regardless of the multiplicity of the proximate manifestations of our practice, we recognize a common ultimate source of our inspiration.”--Rutherford (2010) American Anthropologist, 112(2): 191-199
Kathryn Clancy, University of IllinoisKatie Hinde, Harvard
Robin Nelson, SkidmoreJulienne Rutherford, UIC
Who gets targeted? Who perpetrates?
Survey design: harassment literature Legal definitions of harassment and assault
were used to construct questions Spring/Summer, 2013 (two waves) Several hundred respondents N = xx completed phone interviews
More women than men (typical for similar surveys)
Predominantly white, heterosexual, United States
This limits our ability to explore or compare issues for non-white, non-straight respondents
“As a man who was ambitious at the time and didn't know how to intervene, it was a weird place to be because these are my friends. We spent time in the field so you can't build friendships anywhere else and I was unable to, or paralyzed for fear that my dissertation would be shut down. I relied on the site and access would be shut down, my career would have been shut down, if I was going to stand up to this guy.”
“It’s not like someone specifically says, ‘You’re not welcome here anymore.’ It’s just a constant, subtle attitude that makes you feel like you don’t want to be there any more. And that made me really mad, too, that the idea that someone could take something that I thought would be great, and sort of take it away from me and say, ‘Yeah, this isn’t for you. You’re not welcome here.’”
• Principal investigators• Site directors/managers• Dissertation advisers• Respected senior scholars
It’s the people in charge:
If you have the power to perpetrate…
You have the power to CHANGE the culture…
See something, say something
See something, say something
Data from American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings over 21 years.
Black line indicates overall participation by women. Gray bars above or below that bar indicate over- or underrepresentation based on predicted values.
When men are involved in organizing symposia, women are underrepresented.
PLoS ONE 7(11): e49682. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049682
See something, say something• “Easy” fix:
• Look around the room.• Note the gender and color and
age of the attendants.• Look at the panel.• Does the panel match the rest
of the people in the room?• If not, and you have the power
to do so, FIX IT NEXT TIME.
See something, say something
See something, say something
See something, say something
Hmmmm, what’s missing?
See something, say something
Hmmmm, what’s missing?
Modern familyEntangled Biology at AAA 2013, ChicagoEntangled Biology at AAA 2013, Chicago
Michael Park, Katie MacKinnon, Jim McKenna, Lance Gravlee, Agustin Fuentes, Julienne Rutherford, Kristi Lewton, Jon Marks, Robin Nelson, Libby Cowgill, Karen Strier, Michelle Bezanson, Erin Riley, Lee Gettler, Adam VanArsdale
Modern familyEntangled Biology at AAA 2013, ChicagoEntangled Biology at AAA 2013, Chicago
Michael Park, Katie MacKinnon, Jim McKenna, Lance Gravlee, Agustin Fuentes, Julienne Rutherford, Kristi Lewton, Jon Marks, Robin Nelson, Libby Cowgill, Karen Strier, Michelle Bezanson, Erin Riley, Lee Gettler, Adam VanArsdale
Four Fields Anthropology of the Fetus, AAA 2013
We need to break down the barriers of privilege that allow only some people to fully
explore the heights of their greatness
We need to break down the barriers of privilege that allow only some people to fully
explore the heights of their greatness
BREAKING DOWN BARRIERSIS SOMETHING ANTHROPOLOGISTS
ARE VERY GOOD AT.
Funding•MARMOSETS: NIH R01HD076018 (PI: Rutherford)•PEOPLE: NIH R03HD062715-01 (PI: Rutherford & Kuzawa)•PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: NIH K12HD055892 Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health, NICHD & Office of Research on Women's Health (PI: Geller)•UIC College of Dentistry and College of Nursing (PI: Rutherford)
Indiana UniversityBloomington, IndianaDr. Kevin HuntDr. Della CookDr. Greg DemasDr. Rika KaestleDr. Paul JamisonDr. Catherine Tucker
Dr. Suzette Tardif, UT Health Science Center San AntonioDr. Corinna Ross, Texas A&M, San AntonioDonna Layne Colon, Southwest National Primate Research CenterDr. Toni Ziegler, Wisconsion National Primate Research CenterVictoria deMartelly, Emory University
Dr. Stacie Geller, OB/GYN, UIC
Acknowledgments
Thank you AGSA!(special shoutout to Robert Mahaney)
