Matt Cartmill

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Matt Cartmill
Born
Matthew Cartmill

(1943-01-04) January 4, 1943 (age 81)
NationalityAmerican
Known forWork on evolution of behavior and anatomy humans and other primates
Spouse
Kaye Brown
(m. 1971)
AwardsCharles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2019)
Scientific career
Fields Biological anthropology
Cultural anthropology
Institutions Duke University
Boston University
Thesis The Orbits of Arboreal Mammals: A Reassessment of the Arboreal Theory of Primate Evolution  (1970)

Matthew Cartmill is an American anthropologist and professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University, where he formerly served as Chair of Anthropology. [1] [2]

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Education and career

Cartmill was educated at Pomona College and the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1970, eventually becoming Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Anthropology there. He left Duke to join the faculty of Boston University in 2008. [3] He was a founding editor of the International Journal of Primatology from 1978 to 1989, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology from 1989 to 1995, and served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 1997 to 1999. [4] He also served as the senior associate editor for the International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. [3]

Honors and awards

Cartmill was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1983 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. His 1993 book A View to a Death in the Morning received both the W. W. Howells Award from the American Anthropological Association and the George Perkins Marsh Book Award from the American Society for Environmental History. [4] [5] In 2019, he received the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. [3]

Personal life

Cartmill is the son of science fiction author Cleve Cartmill. [6] He was born on January 4, 1943, in Los Angeles, California. He has been married to Kaye Brown since May 29, 1971. [4]

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References

  1. "Congratulations to Dr. Cartmill!". Boston University. 2019-01-18. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  2. "Matt Cartmill". Boston University. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  3. 1 2 3 "Cartmill Receives Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award". Duke Today. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  4. 1 2 3 "Matt Cartmill CV" (PDF). Boston University. 2015-11-21. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  5. "Matt Cartmill". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  6. Cartmill, Matt (2009-06-30). A View to a Death in the Morning: hunting and nature through history. Harvard University Press. p. 205. ISBN   9780674029255.