Assistant Professor
       Evolutionary & Cultural Anthropology

       Department of Anthropology
       Washington State University
       P.O. Box 644910
       Pullman, WA 99164-4910 USA

       Office: College Hall 372
       Phone: 509-335-5400
       Email: rquinlanATwsuDOTedu

 

 

Areas: Evolutionary & behavioral ecology, cross-cultural research, medical anthropology, ethnography, Caribbean

Rob Quinlan is a biocultural anthropologist specializing in the behavioral ecology of family, kinship and life history "strategies." For the last decade his research has examined parental care and children’s reproductive development. Recently Quinlan has focused on personality development and reproduction. He is also exploring dialogues between quantitative and qualitative ethnographic analysis. Since 1993 Quinlan has conducted fieldwork in a rural community in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies.

 

Publications & PDFs         CV       Dominica Fieldwork

Caribbean Ethnographic Field School         Graduate Studies in Evolutionary Modeling

Recent Research

Human Parental Effort and Environmental Risk.(pdf) 
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2007 Quinlan, R.

Parenting & Cultures of Risk: A Comparative Analysis of Infidelity, Aggression & Witchcraft.(pdf) 
American Anthropologist. 2007 Quinlan, R. & Quinlan, M.

Gender & Risk in a Matrifocal Caribbean Community: A View from Behavioral Ecology.(pdf) 
American Anthropologist. 2006 Quinlan, R.

Local Resource Enhancement & Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community.(pdf) 
Current Anthropology. 2005 Quinlan, R., Quinlan, M. & Flinn, M.

 

Hear about Rob Quinlan's Caribbean research on the "Peoples & Cultures" radio show 

ANTH 468 Sex, Evolution & Human Nature