MICHAEL H. CRAWFORD
CURRENT WORK ADDRESS: CURRENT POSITIONS:
Department of Anthropology Professor of Anthropology and Genetics
University of Kansas Director, Midwest Twin Registry
Lawrence, Kansas 66045 Director, Laboratory of Biological Anthropology
Telephone: 785-864-4170 Director, International Consortium for the Study of FAX: 785-864-5224 Tuberculosis (ICST)
crawford@ku.edu
Website: http://www2.ku.edu/~lba
Topical Curriculum Vitae
B.A. University of Washington-Seattle 1960 Anthropology
M.A. University of Washington-Seattle 1965 Biological Anthro.
Ph.D. University of Washington-Seattle 1967 Biological Anthro. & Genetics
Dissertation Title: A Re-examination of the Taxonomy and Phylogeny of the Hominoidea Based Upon Experimental Data (Biochemical Genetics).
Committee Members: MT Newman, AG Motulsky, E. Winans, M. Jacobs
1963 University of Washington Primate Center, training in Primate behavioral observational
techniques, under the supervision of Dr. Ruth Bobbitt.
1963 Traineeship at the King County Blood Bank for blood grouping, and protein electrophoresis, under the supervision of Dr. Eloise Giblett.
1964 National Institutes of Health Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in the Summer Institute of Behavioral Genetics, Dr. G. McClearn, director.
1982 Research Fellow, Department of Human Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Canberra, Australia, Prof. Robert Kirk, Chair.
1993 Workshop on DNA fingerprints (VNTRs), Genetic Analytical Testing Center, Denver, Colorado, sponsored by the American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG)
1995 Training in Molecular Anthropology, workshop at Wayne State University.
1996 Workshop on Genetic Epidemiology, SW Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, sponsored by AAAG.
1997 Workshop on ancient DNA at the Genetic Analytical Testing Laboratory, Denver, sponsored by the American Association of Anthropological Genetics.
1997 Workshop on the Major Histocompatibility Complex (HLA), November 8-12, in Mexico City at the National Museum of Anthropology, sponsored by AAAG.
1998 Workshop on Anthropological and Primate Genetics, Nov. 19-21, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, TX
POSITIONS
HELD:
1959-61
1961-63
1963-65
1965-67
Research Assistant, Surgical Division, Pacific NW Research Center, under the supervision of Dr. Dean Crystal. Development of the heart/lung machine.
Research Assistant, Department of Surgery, Univ. of Washington, King County Hospital, research on the effects of hormones on wound healing. Supervisor: Dr. William Cantrell
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington. Supervisor: Prof. D.F. Roberts.
Research Staff (Primate Geneticist), Regional Primate Research Center,
U. of Washington.
1967 (Summer)
1967-71
1971-76
1972-75
Research Associate, Parsons Research Center, Parsons State Hospital, Parsons, Kansas.
1975-
1976-81
1976-
1982
1987-
1989
1989-90
1988-2000
2000-
2006-
Editor-in-Chief Human Biology: International Journal of
Population Biology and Genetics.
Consulting Editor, Human Biology
Director of the International Consortium for the Study of Tuberculosis (ICST)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND HONORS
Honors
Balfour-Jeffries, Higuchi Award for Research Excellence at the University of Kansas, ($10,000) 2006.
Argentine Academy of Sciences, Cordoba, elected Foreign Member, 2001 - (only US biological anthropologist to be so honored by the oldest academy of sciences of the Americas).
Elected President, Human Biology Association, 1997-2001 (President elect, 1997-8; President, 1998-2000; Past President, 2000-1)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected in 1996.
President, American Association of Anthropological Genetics, 1994-6.
National Science Foundation panelist on Anthropology, Sociology and Linguistics, 2002, Graduate Research Fellowship Program
National and International Organizations:
Selection Committee for the Gabriel W. Lasker Award, 2007
Program Chair, Human Biology Association, March 30 - April 1, 1998, Salt Lake City, Utah
Program Chair, Human Biology Association, March 26-8, 2001, Kansas City, MO
Chairman of the Resolutions Committee, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA), 1973
Local arrangements committee chairman, American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting in Lawrence, Kansas, 1972
Local arrangements committee, AAPA, 1988, Kansas City Meeting
Chair, local arrangements, Human Biology Council (Association), 1988; 2001
Nomination Committee of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), section H, elected, 1977-79
Chair of Nomination Committee, section H of AAAS, 1977-79
Program Chair for the Biological Anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association Meeting in New Orleans, November, 1973
Executive Committee, American Dermatoglyphics Association, 1990-1992.
Advisory Committee, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, DNA Laboratory, 1998-2000
Local Arrangements Committee, Arctic Anthropology Conference, Lawrence, KS, November 3-4, 2000.
International Service
Editor-in-Chief of Human Biology: International Journal of Population Biology, 1989-1999.
Consulting Editor of Human Biology, 2000 -.
Advisory Board on Russian Studies, Fulbright Fellowships, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), 3-year term, 1990-3.
Human Genome Diversity, Chair, Committee on sampling Asian/Arctic populations: workshops at Pennsylvania State University, 1992, Alghero, Sardinia, 1993.
Scientific Review/Editorial Boards:
Rivista di Antropologia (Italian journal), 1991-; Homo (German Anthropological journal), 1994-2005; Journal Homo of Comparative Human Biology (official journal of the Australasian Society for Human Biology), 2006-2007.
Consulting Editor of Collegium Antropologicum, Croatian journal, 1996-.
Editorial Board of the Polish journal: Przeglad Antropologiczny-Anthropological Review, 2002-.
Associate Editor of journal Ethnology, 1967-70
Editor for Biological Anthropology, Handbook of Latin American Studies, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., Vol. 35
Honorary Associate of the Biological Anthropology Research Programme University of
Witwatersrand Medical School, South Africa, 1994-1996.
National Academy of Sciences Exchanges: USSR, 1976; Hungary, 1986
Fogarty Center (NIH) Exchanges with USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, 1977; 1983; 1985; 1989
Scientific Program Committee for ICAES (International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences), 1988, in Zagreb
Commission on Social Aspects of Human Biology, International Association of Human Biologists, 1978
Occasional reviewer for: National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Canada Council, Social Sciences and Humanities, Research Council of Canada; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, International Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Research Council (Office of International Affairs), German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, Foundation for Research Development (South), U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (Basic Research and Higher Education in Russia), Natural Environment Research Council, UK, Euroscience Foundation (Strasbourg), and the Leakey Foundation.
Occasional reviewer for the following publications: American Anthropologist, Human Biology, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Primatology, International Journal of Primatology, Annals of Human Biology, Annals of Human Genetics, Science, Medical Anthropology (Cross-cultural Studies in Health and Illness), Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, Collegium Anthropologicum, Arctic Anthropology, Rivista di Antropologia, Homo, American Journal of Human Biology, Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, American Journal of Human Genetics, Journal of Heredity, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, US.
Adjudicator for publications of the Proceedings of Royal Society, 2001.
O'Rourke, DH, D West, and Crawford, MH (eds.) 2008 The Aleuts: Origins, Culture, and Genetics. University of Utah Press, Arctic Series, In Press.
Crawford, MH, R Rubicz and M Zlojutro 2008 Origins of the Aleuts and the Genetic Structure of Populations of the Archipelago: Molecular and Archaeological Perspective. In: The Aleuts: Origins, Culture and Genetics (eds. DH O'Rourke, D West and MH Crawford), University of Utah Press, Circumpolar Series). In Press.
Rubicz, R, M Zlojutro and MH Crawford 2008 Genetic Architecture of a Genetic Isolate: Bering Island. In: The Aleuts: Origins, Culture, and Genetics (eds. DH O'Rourke, D West and MH Crawford), University of Utah Press (Arctic Series), In Press.
Justice, A, R Rubicz, G Chitoor, R Jantz and MHCrawford 2008 Anthropometric variation among Bering Sea Natives. In: The Aleuts: Origins, Culture, and Genetics (eds. DH O’Rourke, D West, and MH Crawford), University of Utah Press (Arctic Series) In Press.
Moscoso, J, MH Crawford, J Vicario, M Zlojutro, JI Serrano-Velas, R Reguera, and A Arnaiz-Villena 2008 HLA genes of Bering Island Aleuts living between Alaska (USA) and Kamchatka (Russia). Molecular Immunology Sept. 6 (e-pub). 45(4): 1018-26.
West, D, A Savinitsky and MH Crawford 2007 Genetics, prehistory and the colonization of the Aleutian Islands. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth and the Environmental Sciences 98: 47-57.
Zlojutro, M, LA Tarskaia, M Sorenson, JJ Snodgrass, WR Leonard, and MH Crawford 2007 The origins of the Yakut people: Evidence from mitochondrial DNA diversity. International J. Human Genet. 5:
Crawford, MH. 2007 Genetic structure of circumpolar populations. A synthesis. American Journal of Human Biology 19:203-217.
Crawford, M.H. (ed.) 2007 Anthropological Genetics: Theory, Methods and Applications. Cambridge University Press. 476 pps. (paperback)
Crawford, MH 2007 The Importance of Field Research in Anthropological Genetics: Methods, Experiences and Results. Chapter 4. In Anthropological Genetics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 79-111.
Crawford, MH 2007 Foundations of Anthropological Genetics. Chapter 1. In: Anthropological Genetics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-16.
Rubicz, R, P Melton, and MH Crawford 2007 Molecular Markers in Anthropological Genetic Studies. Chapter 6. In: Anthropological Genetics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 141-186.
Melton, PE, I. Briceno, A Gomez, EJ Devor, JE Bernal, and MH Crawford 2007 Biological relationship between Central and South American Chibchan speaking populations: Evidence from mtDNA Amer. J. Phys. Anthrop.133 (1): 753-770.
Crawford, MH 2007 Review of Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 3. Environment, Origins, and Population. (ed. DH Ubelaker), Smithsonian Institution. Amer. J. Hum. Biol. 19 (6): 888-890.
Schroeder, KB, TG Schurr, JC Long, NA Rosenberg, MH Crawford, L Tarskaia, LP Osipova, SI Zhadanov, and DG Smith 2007 Private allele ubiquitous in the Americas.Biology Letters. Population Genetics. 3: 218-223.
Crawford, MH 2006 Foreword to a volume by Lorena Madrigal. Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations. University of Cambridge Press, pp. xi-xiv.
Zlojutro, M, A Gonzalez Apraiz, R Roy and MH Crawford 2006 Autosomal STR variation in a Basque population: Vizcaya Province. Human Biology 78(5): 599-618.
Melton, P, M Zlojutro, K Kimminau and MH Crawford 2006 Biological aging and Cox hazard analysis of mortality trends in a Mennonite community from south-central Kansas. American Journal of Human Biology 18: 387-401.
Zlojutro, M, R Rubicz, EJ Devor, VA Spitsyn, SV Makarov, K Wilson, and MH Crawford 2006 Genetic structure of the Aleuts and Circumpolar populations based on mitochondrial DNA sequences: A synthesis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 129 (3): 446-464.
Mitchell, RJ, M Reddy, D Campo, T Infantino, M Kaps, and MH Crawford 2006 Genetic diversity within a caste population of India as measured by Y-chromosome haplogroups and haplotypes: Subcastes of the Golla of Andrhra Pradesh. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130(3): 385-393.
Lefevre-Witier, P, H Aireche, M Benabadji, P Darlu, K Melvin, A Sevin, and MH Crawford 2006 Genetic structure of Algerian populations. American Journal of Human Biology 18 (4): 492-501.
Phillips Krawczak, C, E Devor, M Zlojutro, and MH Crawford 2006 mtDNA variation in the Kizhi population of Gorno Altai: A comparative study. Human Biology 78 (4): 477-494.
Crawford, MH 2006 Who are we? Aleut Research Program (1999-2006). The Aleutian Current. Aleut Corporation Newsletter 35 (4): 6-7.
Phillips-Krawczak, C and MH Crawford 2006 Origins of Carib populations of St. Vincent Island, Belize, and Dominica. American Journal of Human Biology 18(2): 267.
Schanfield, MS, RA Lazarin, E Sunderland and MH Crawford 2006 Using immunoglobulin allotypes to test hypotheses about the origin of Gypsies. American Journal of Human Biology 18(2): 271.
Arnaiz-Villena, A, and MH Crawford 2006 Relatedness of Eurasian and American Far North populations with Amerindians according to HLA genes and linguistics. American Journal of Physical Anth