Dr. Douglas Crews

Contact Information

Dr. Douglas Crews
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
4004 Smith Laboratory
174 W. 18th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
614.292.1329 (tel)
614.292-4155 (fax)
crews.8 @osu.edu

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Research Interests

A physical anthropologist, investigates aging, disease, and other genetic and quantitative variation among Samoans of the South Pacific, African Americans, and Native Americans from Brazil and Ecuador.

Dr. Crews is currently working with data collected from American Samoans, African Americans of central Ohio, and Yanomami and Cofan Indians of the Brazilian and Ecuadorian Amazon. He currently is co-investigator of a project exploring maternal health, and pregnancy outcomes among the Buthia of Sikkim State, India. Dr. Crews has a joint faculty appointment in the School of Public Health and is a member of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Aging Coordinating Committee. Dr. Crews' graduate students are actively conducting research in Brazil, Ecuador, India, Cayo Santiago, and the United States, in addition to conducting molecular studies of the HLA system and candidate genes for diabetes, obesity, and blood pressure

EDITORIAL BOARDS
Collegium Antropologicum -Consulting Editor 1996-present.
Human Biology - Editorial Board 1998-present.
Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Sciences - Editorial Board, 2002-2005, Editor 2005-present.
American Journal of Human Biology - Editorial Board 2008-
Experimental Gerontology - Editorial Board 2007-

Teaching Schedule

Autumn 2009	301- Modern Human Physical Variation 701.01 - Modern Human Physical Variation
Winter 2010	820.24 - Quantitative Methods
Spring 2010	640.05-Biology of Senescence

Current Grad Students

MA:
Lindsey Ardrey
Laurie Reitsma
Jessica Walz

PhD:
Dan Tyree

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