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Amanda Veile

Promoted to Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology

aveile@purdue.edu

Amanda Veile completed a Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology and her bachelor’s and master’s degree anthropology all at the University of New Mexico and she joined Purdue’s faculty in 2015.

Veile conducts research in human evolutionary biology. Her Ph.D. 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 at 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).

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, and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI-NIH).

Her research has been published in the Journal of Human Lactation, Social Science and Medicine, PLoS One by the Public Library of Science, Physiology and Behavior, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Current Psychology, the American Journal of Human Biology, and several anthropology and interdisciplinary anthologies. Her work has been covered by media outlets such as Futurity, Yahoo News, Science Daily, The Times of India, National Science Foundation Discovery Files, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Veile directs the Laboratory for Behavior, Ontogeny and Reproduction (LABOR), a biohazard level-2 wet lab with capacity to run Enzyme Linked Immunoassays (ELISA) to measure metabolic hormones and immunoproteins in human saliva and dried blood spots.