Dan T.A. Eisenberg
Department
of Anthropology
Northwestern University
1810 Hinman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208-1330
U.S.A
Fax: 847-467-1778
d...@dtae.net
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
AWARDS & HONORS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
INVITED LECTURES
SKILLS
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
In press:
16. Eisenberg DTA, Kuzawa CW, Hayes MG. in press. Worldwide allele frequencies
of the human apoliprotein E (APOE) gene: climate, local adaptations and evolutionary
history. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Distribution of human APOE allele frequencies around the world
15. Godoy R, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, Magvanjav O, Shinnar E, Leonard
WR, Gravlee C, Reyes-García V, Mcdade TW, Huanca T and others. in press.
Short but catching up: Statural growth among native Amazonian Bolivian children.
American Journal of Human Biology. [PDF
copy removed due to legal demands of John Wiley & Sons but can be found
here -click request download ticket in
upper left]
14. Eisenberg DTA, Apicella C, Campbell B, Dreber A, Garcia J, Lum JK. in press. Assortative human pair-bonding for partner ancestry and allelic variation of the dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) gene. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Special Issue on Cultural Neuroscience).
13. Campbell BC, Dreber A, Apicella CL, Eisenberg DTA, Gray PB, Little
AC, Garcia JR, Zamore RS, Lum JK. in press. Testosterone
exposure, dopaminergic reward, and sensation-seeking in young men. Physiology
& Behavior.
2010:
12. Morehart CT, Eisenberg DTA. 2010. Prosperity,
power, and change: Modeling maize at Postclassic Xaltocan, Mexico. Journal
of Anthropological Archaeology 29:94-112.
11. Godoy R, Magvanjav O, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, McDade TW, Leonard
WR, Reyes-García V, Huanca T, Tanner S, Gravlee C. 2010. Why
no adult stunting penalty or height premium?: Estimates from native Amazonians
in Bolivia. Economics & Human Biology 8(1):88-99.
2009:
10. Dreber A, Apicella CL, Eisenberg DTA, Garcia JR, Zamore RS, Lum JK,
Campbell B. 2009. The
7R polymorphism in the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) is associated with financial
risk-taking in men. Evolution and Human Behavior 30(2):85-92.
9. Campbell BC, Gray PB, Eisenberg DTA, Ellison P, Sorenson MD. 2009.
Androgen
receptor CAG repeats and body composition among Ariaal men. International
Journal of Andrology 32(2):140-148.
2008:
8. Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, Gray PB, Sorenson MD. 2008. Dopamine
receptor genetic polymorphisms and body composition in undernourished pastoralists:
An exploration of nutrition indices among nomadic and recently settled Ariaal
men of northern Kenya. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8(173).![]()
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Associated press coverage appeared in: The Economist, Newsweek, Discover, The Times (London), Scientific American (podcast), Slate, "Eight Forty-Eight" on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, New Scientist, Daily Telegraph, ABC News, Focus Online, jungeWelt, wissenschaft, Agence France-Presse, UPI, ScienceAGoGo, Science Daily, Medical News Today, Weiner Zeitung
7. Godoy R, Eisenberg DTA, Reyes-Garcia V, Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade
TW, Tanner S, TAPS Bolivian Research Team. 2008. Assortative
mating and offspring well-being: theory and empirical findings from a native
Amazonian society in Bolivia. Evolution and Human Behavior 29(3):201-210.
6. Godoy R, Goodman E, Reyes-Garcia V, Eisenberg DTA, Leonard WR, Huanca
T, McDade TW, Tanner S, TAPS Bolivian Study Team. 2008. Rain,
temperature, and child-adolescent height among Native Amazonians in Bolivia.
Annals of Human Biology 35(3):276-93.
5. MacKillop J, Murphy JG, Ray LA, Eisenberg DTA, Lisman SA, Lum JK,
Wilson DS. 2008. Further
validation of a cigarette purchase task for assessing the relative reinforcing
efficacy of nicotine in college smokers. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
16(1):57-65.
2007:
4. Eisenberg DTA, MacKillop J, Modi M, Beauchemin J, Dang D, Lisman SA,
Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2007. Examining
Impulsivity as an Endophenotype Using a Behavioral Approach: A DRD2 TaqI A and
DRD4 48-bp VNTR Association Study. Behavioral and Brain Functions 3(2).
3. Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, MacKillop J, Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2007. Season
of Birth and Dopamine Receptor Gene Associations with Impulsivity, Sensation
Seeking and Reproductive Behaviors. PLoS ONE 11:e1216.![]()
2. Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, MacKillop J, Modi M, Dang
D, Lum JK, Wilson DS. 2007. Polymorphisms
in the Dopamine D2 and D4 Receptor Genes and Reproductive, Sexual and Life History
Behaviors. Evolutionary Psychology 5(4):696-715.![]()
1. Campbell B, Eisenberg DTA. 2007. Obesity,
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder, and the Dopaminergic Reward System.
Collegium Antropologicum 31(1):315-319.
Book reviews
Babu E, Eisenberg DTA. 2010. Book review of "Where There Is No Doctor" by David Werner. JAMA 303(9):885-886.

Number of Inhabitants per Doctor
Chapters
Eisenberg DTA. 2008. Anthropology in the United States - When Dialogue is the Discipline: A Multi-Level Evolutionary Consideration of Knowledge Production. In: Frédéric Darbellay MC, Jérôme Billotte, Francis Waldvogel, editor. A Vision of Transdisciplinarity, Laying Foundations for a World Knowledge Dialogue: EPFL Press.
Posters/Abstracts/Unpublished manuscripts/Working papers/Preprints:
Gray P, Eisenberg D, Campbell B. 2009.
Androgen Receptor and Vasopressin Receptor (AVPR1a) Genetic Polymorphisms are
not associated with Marital Status or Fertility among Ariaal Men of Northern
Kenya. Available from Nature Precedings
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3208.1.
Eisenberg D, Hayes M, Kuzawa C. 2009. Evidence for cholesterol function
and local climatic adaptation based on worldwide allele frequency variations
of the apoliprotein E (APOE) gene. American Journal of Human Biology 21(2):253.
Eisenberg DTA, Campbell B, Gray P. 2009. The ADHD associated DRD4/48bp
genetic polymorphism in settled and nomadic Ariaal pastoralists of northern
Kenya. Barbara L. & Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights
Advocacy Conference, The Evolution of Human Aggression: Lessons for Today's
Conflicts.
Gray PB, Eisenberg DT, Campbell BC. 2009. No association between androgen
and vasopressin 1A (AVPR1A) receptor polymorphisms and marital status or fertility
among Ariaal pastoralists of Kenya. Society for Cross Cultural Research.
Campbell B, Apicella C, Dreber A, Gray P, Eisenberg D, Garcia J, Lum
J. 2009. Cortisol, but not DHEA, is related to sensation-seeking in young men.
American Journal of Human Biology 21(2):248.
Godoy R, Nyberg C, Eisenberg DTA, Magvanjav O, Reyes-García V,
Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade TW, Tanner S, Vadez V and others. 2008. Individual
wealth rank, community wealth inequality, and self-reported adult poor health.
taps Working Paper Series: www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-46.pdf.
Godoy R, Goodman E, Reyes-García V, Eisenberg D, Leonard WR,
Huanca T, McDade TW, Tanner S, TAPS Bolivian Research Team. 2007. Climate and
Child Height among Native Amazonians. taps Working Paper Series: http://www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-35.pdf.
Godoy R, Eisenberg D, Reyes-García V, Huanca T, Leonard WR, McDade
TW, Tanner S, Vento M, TAPS Bolivian Study Team. 2007. Anthropometric Indicators
of Children and Young Adults and Rainfall in a Native Amazonian Society. taps
Working Paper Series: http://www.tsimane.org/working%20papers/TAPS-WP-33.pdf.
Campbell BC, Eisenberg DTA, Gray PB,
Stankiewicz BW, Sorenson MD. 2007. The dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) 48BP
polymorphism in Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya. American Journal of Human
Biology 19(2):249-250.
Campbell B, Sorenson M, Eisenberg D. 2006. Variation
in dopamine receptor D4 and the origins and migration of modern humans.
World Knowledge Dialogue Conference.
Eisenberg DTA, et al. 2006. Impulsivity and Risk Taking
as Dopamine Gene Endophenotypes. Alcoholism, Clinical & Experimental Research
30(6):7A.
Eisenberg D, Bell MA. 2005. Decreased dragonfly nymph
(Aeshna interrupta) predation on stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus) with
reduced pelvic girdles and symmetrical lateral plate phenotypes. unpublished
manuscript.
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Eisenberg DTA, et al. 2005. Genetic influences on human impulsivity,
substance abuse, sexual and affiliative behavior and possible moderating environment
factors. Binghamton University Research and Scholarly Activity Fair.
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3/2007-8/2007 & 6/2008-7/2008 |
Researcher and NSF Field School Student,
Tsimane Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS), Bolivia. Training in cultural
anthropology field methods of data collection, data management and analysis.
In 2008 began pilot studies of water iron levels and sleep patterns.
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Investigator, Population and behavior genetics study of Ariaal pastoralists of Northern Kenya, Boston University.
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| 2005-2006 | Cardiovascular Research Tech, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine |
| 6/2005-10/2005 | Clinical DNA Tech, Center For Human Genetics, Boston University Medical Center |
| Fall 2004 | Senior Research Aide, Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton U. |
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Summer 2004
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NSF
REU Fellow, stickleback fish research at University of Alaska
at Anchorage and State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Research Aide, Conchopata Archaeological Research Project in Ayacucho, Peru (NSF funded). Participated in excavation, pottery analysis, human and animal bone analysis
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| Fall 2002 | Post excavation research on Saxon burial practices |
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Research Aide, Bamburgh Castle Archaeological Research Project in Northumbria, U.K. and nearby Bowl Hole Cemetery.
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| Spring 2002 | Collaborated in pilot bone maceration study for human forensic purposes (resulting work published in Journal of Forensic Sciences). |
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/ASSOCIATIONS
Ad-hoc Reviewer:
Proceedings of the Royal Society
B
PLoS ONE ![]()
Population
Studies
International Journal of Obesity
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
(Oxford)
Developmental
Psychobiology (Wiley)
Behavioral and Brain Functions
Progress
in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry
Humanitarian efforts:
Northwestern University:
2008
Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate Staff Awards Committee
Binghamton University:
2002-2005 Voting member at Anthropology
Faculty Meetings as Undergraduate Anthropology Organization representative.
Actively participated in three faculty-hiring processes.
2002-2005 Judicial Board Member – judged responsibility and sanctioning of students accused of infractions of university rules
Member of:
Human Biology Association
Winter 2009 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
2007-2011 NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship
Summer 2008 Northwestern - LeCron Foster & Friends of Anthropology Research Grant
Summer 2008 Northwestern U., Summer Language Grant to learn Tsimane' in Bolivia
Fall 2007 Conference Travel Grant to 2008 HBA/AAPA Meeting from Buffet Center For International and Comparative Studies of Northwestern University
Fall 2006 World Knowledge Dialogue, Switzerland, Young Scientist Award
Summer 2006 Research Society on Alcoholism, Junior Investigator AwardSpring 2005 Binghamton U., Faculty Award for Excellence & Service in Anthropology
Spring 2005 Binghamton U., Matthew Goldstein Memorial Scholarship Award in Anthropology
2004-’05 Binghamton U., Undergraduate Research Award Funding – twice awarded
2003 Binghamton U.’s Candidate for the Jack Kent Cook Scholarship
Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant, "Introduction to International Health (MPH/Undergrad
course)", Northwestern University.
Winter 2009
Teaching Assistant, "Senior Seminar", Northwestern University.
Mentored eight seniors to write their theses.
Fall 08
Teaching Assistant, "Fundamentals of Anthropology", Northwestern
University. Responsible for two discussion sections
Fall ’04
Tutor of Undergraduates, Binghamton U. Center for Academic Excellence
Fall ‘03
Teaching Assistant, biology/anthropology course, "Evolution for Everyone".
Discussion section leader, graded papers, helped prepare exams and facilitated
research projects.
Summers '02 & ’98
Tutor, Tecschange (Technology
for Social Change) a Boston based organization that trains low-income residents
to build and use computers
Fall 2007
Invited speaker on Human Genetics to "Human Origins" discussion
sections, undergraduate course at Northwestern U.
Spring 2005
Invited speaker on Human Behavior Genetics to “Conceptual Foundations
in Ecology Evolution and Behavior”, Graduate/Undergraduate course at Binghamton
U.
· Computers: Proficient cross platform computer user with experience in software and hardware repairs, web site design, statistical software (SPSS, STATA, BiomStat, Resampling), genetic analysis (GLU) Photoshop, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, File Maker, Dreamweaver, EndNote and etc. Familiarity with Java and BASIC programming and HTML scripting.
· Molecular Lab Techniques: DNA/RNA/Protein extractions, plug DNA extraction, ligation, transformation, PCR, RT-PCR, radioactive PCR, southern blot, pulsed field, agarose and polyacrylamide electrophoresis, cell culture (including mesenchymal stem cells), epithelial progenitor cell isolation, telomere length and telomerase activity analysis, recombinant viral production, basic primer design and sequencing experience.
Languages: Fair reading, writing and speaking in Spanish.
2002-2004 Harpur’s Ferry Student Volunteer Ambulance Service
2001-2003 Running Club – Vice-President2002 Radio Station Disk Jockey - WHRW 90.5 FM Binghamton
All references in American Journal of Human Biology Format