William Leonard

Over the last 15 years, I have written and presented to general audiences on two major aspects of my work -- (1) human nutrition and evolution, and (2) the impact of social change on human health and well-being. I have written on human nutritional evolution for general audiences in Scientific American ("Food for Thought" 2002), and my work has been featured in such lay publications as Runner's World and Skymiles Magazine. In addition, I have taught Alumni courses and given numerous public leactures on evolutionay dimensions of human nutritional requirements. I have also lectured widely on the health consequences of recent social and economic changes in the Soviet Union. This work has been featured in major newspapers such as the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and Toronto Globe and Mail.

Micaela di Leonardo

Since the 1980s, I have written and spoken broadly, for a popular progressive
audience, on issues of anthropology, inequalities, public culture, and urban
life in the United States. I’ve published multiple pieces in The Nation, The
Village Voice, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, have done many public
radio shows and worked with journalists. My 1992 cover story in the Voice,
on rape, racism, and underclass mythology,“White Lies, Black Myths,” was
widely copied and used in anti-racism trainings around the country. I
received the Anthropology in Media Award in 1996 and the SANA
Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America Award in
2005. Roger Lancaster and I constructed our best-selling 1997 edited collection, The Gender/Sexuality Reader, to place race and political economy at the center of our analyses of gender and sexuality, and provided both students and the larger public a broadly progressive resource on those topics.
Finally, I wrote the grant for and co-chaired the 2006 School of American
Research Advanced Seminar on New Landscapes of Global Inequality. We gave a public colloquium, and will be publishing our work with the SAR Press.

 

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