D. ANDREW MERRIWETHER
Email: andym@binghamton.edu
(PhD University of Pittsburgh 1993), Associate Professor of Anthropology, is a molecular anthropologist and population geneticist whose research focuses on the peopling of new landscapes (the New World and the Pacific), reconstructing the past using genetic data from contemporary populations and ancient DNA from the archaeological record. Additional areas of research focus on genes involved in adaptation to altitude, diabetes, and obesity. (On campus starting July, 2003.)
1999 (with J. Friedlaender, J. Mediavilla, C. Mgone, F. Gentz, and R. E. Ferrell) Mitochondrial DNA variation is an indicator of Austronesian influence in Island Melanesia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 110: 243-270.
2002 The peopling of the new world: a mitochondrial perspective. In: The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World. Proceedings of the Fourth Wattis Symposium. Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology, Number 25, 1999, San Francisco, CA, Chapter 11, pp. 295-310.
2002 (with B. M. Kemp, D. E. Crews, and J. V. Neel) Gene flow and genetic variation in the Yanomama as revealed by mitochondrial DNA. In: America Past, America Present: Genes and Languages in the Americas and Beyond, C. Renfrew (ed.). (Papers in the Prehistory of Languages.) Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, pp. 89-124.
Course for the Spring 2008 Semester: ANTH 168
Departmental Chair:
Thomas Wilson
twilson@binghamton.edu
Departmental Administrative Assistant:
Robin Barron
rbarron@binghamton.edu
Director of
Undergraduate Studies:
J. Koji Lum
klum@binghamton.edu
Director of Graduate Studies:
D. Andrew Merriwether
andym@binghamton.edu
Department Secretary:
Heidi Kenyon
hkenyon@binghamton.edu