John Bock, PhD

Dr. John Bock

John Bock, PhD

Professor of Anthropology

Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program

I am an anthropologist interested in the interface of biology and culture, and as a result my work is implicitly transdisciplinary. I use a theoretical perspective grounded in a branch of evolutionary ecology called life history theory to focus on five main research areas:

· Parental investment and child development in a cross-cultural, socioecological perspective

· Family and household demography

· Health, and especially the relationship between access to resources and health outcomes among indigenous and minority peoples

· The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa

· The effects of economic development, globalization, market incorporation, and integration into national level political, economic, and social institutions on indigenous and minority peoples in North America, Africa, and elsewhere.

Ju’/hoansi boys hunting, Tsodilo Hills, Botswana 1990.

I have conducted extensive research on these issues in Botswana and in New Mexico. You can learn more about the people I work with in Botswana and my research by looking at my website on the Okavango Delta Peoples of Botswana , at a list of my recent publications, or at my CV.

I am the Coordinator of Cal State Fullerton’s Environmental Studies Program, which offers the MS in Environmental Studies.

I am Associate Editor of the journal Human Nature, official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and the Evolutionary Anthropology Society.

I have a PhD in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico. I spent three years as a Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow in anthropological demography and epidemiology at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health in Australia. I have been involved in collaboration with faculty from the University of Botswana and the Division of Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

I teach Evolutionary Anthropology at Cal State Fullerton, and if you are a student of mine you may access course materials through Blackboard.

Boy herding cattle, Okavango Delta, Botswana 1995.

Pounding grain, Okavango Delta, Botswana 1994.

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Department of Anthropology

California State University, Fullerton

P.O. Box 6846 Fullerton, CA 92834-6846