Amanda Veile
- Associate Professor // Anthropology
Research Focus
Human evolution, behavioral and reproductive ecology, maternal/child health
Office and Contact
Courses
Biological Bases of Human Social Behavior (ANTH 203)
Human Origins (ANTH 204)
Culture, Food and Health (ANTH 212)
Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies (ANTH 346)
Foundations of Biological Anthropology (ANTH 535)
Amanda Veile studied Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of New Mexico (Ph.D. 2011). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College (Dept. of Anthropology) before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 2015.
Program Chair (Executive Committee): Human Biology Association
Assistant Editor: Birth (Obstetrics and Gynecology Journal)
Executive Committee: Ingestive Behavior Research Center (Purdue University)
Courtesy Faculty: Department of Public Health (Purdue)
Faculty Partner and Fellow: Center for Families (Purdue)
Faculty Associate: Center on Aging and the Life Course (Purdue)
Specialization
Evolution of the human life course, human reproductive and behavioral ecology, immuno-nutritional development of infants and children, infant feeding practices and evolutionary obstetrics, Latin American indigenous health, maternal/child health, U.S.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Dr. Veile conducts research in human evolutionary biology. Her PhD research (University of New Mexico) linked infant feeding patterns and immunological maturation to energetic and epidemiologic conditions in the Bolivian Tsimane (Amazonian forager-farmers) and the Venezuelan Pumé, (savannah foragers). In her postdoctoral research (Harvard University), she examined infant diets and adaptive growth strategies in Yucatec Maya subsistence farmers.
Veile currently directs two indigenous health projects: 1) Causes and Consequences of Rising Cesarean Delivery Rates in the Yucatec Maya (Mexico), and 2) Urbanization, Migration and Indigenous Health (Peru). She also directs the Laboratory for Behavior, Ontogeny and Reproduction (LABOR), a wet lab with capacity to run Enzyme Linked Immunoassays (ELISA) to measure metabolic hormones and immunoproteins in human saliva and dried blood spots.
Veile's research has been funded by The National Science Foundation, Harvard University Society of Fellows, Harvard University FAS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, the Claire Garber Goodman Fund (Dartmouth College), the Purdue Research Foundation, Purdue University College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University Center for Families (CFF) and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI-NIH).
Her research has been published in American Anthropologist, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, American Journal of Human Biology, Current Psychology, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Journal of Human Lactation, Physiology and Behavior, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, PlosOne, Social Science and Medicine, and several anthropology and interdisciplinary anthologies.
Her work has been covered by media outlets such as American Association for the Advancement of Science, Futurity, National Science Foundation Discovery Files, Salon, SciDevNet (Latin American and Caribbean), Science Daily, The Times of India, and Yahoo News.
Dr. Veile's in-print publications can be found at the PubMed, Google Scholar and Research Gate websites:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=amanda+veile
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ilUnJ3wAAAAJ&hl=en