Daniel Hruschka
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Phone: 480-965-3087
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Matthews Center 203M 900 S. Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85281
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Mail code: 2402Campus: Tempe
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Dr. Hruschka studies culture change and the relationship between culture and behavior. His two main research questions focus on how we stay healthy in diverse social environments and how humans cooperate. For the last 10 years, he has been conducting research on these questions in rural Bangladesh. To complement this work with a broader global perspective, he also analyzes large-scale datasets on the social determinants of health worldwide.
He directs the Inclusive Human Learning (IHL) Group.
Dr. Hruschka teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including Culture and Health: Medical Anthropology, Ethnic Disparities and Health, Society, Drugs and Health, Introduction to Global Health and Health: Social and Biocultural Theories. He also serve as a committee member in the graduate program, and has taught ISSR-sponsored workshops on Cultural Consensus Analysis.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute, 2006-2009
PhD, Anthropology, Emory University, 2006
MPH, Epidemiology, Emory University, 2003
AB, Mathematics, Harvard College, 1996
Culture change and behavior, global health, maternal and child health, the co-evolution of social institutions and behavior, mathematical modeling, field methods, medical and biocultural anthropology; Bangladesh , Mongolia .
Cooperation & In-group Favoritism
- Tiokhin L*, Hackman J*, Hruschka DJ (2019). Generalizability is not optional: Insights from a cross-cultural study of social discounting. Royal Society Open Science. 6, 181386
- Danvers A*, Hackman J*, Hruschka DJ (2019). The amplifying role of need in giving decisions. Evolution and Human Behavior. 40:2, 188-193.
- Hruschka DJ. (2010) Friendship: Development, Ecology and Evolution of a Social Relationship. University of California Press.
- Hruschka DJ, Tiokhin L*, Hackman JV*, Munira S, Jesmin K (2018). Learning from Failures of Protocol in Cross-cultural Research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (45), 11428-11434
- Tiokhin L, Hruschka DJ (2017). No evidence that Ebola outbreak influenced voting preferences in 2014 elections, after controlling for autocorrelation in time series. Psychological Science.
- Hadley CM, Hruschka DJ. Stability And Change In In-Group Mate Preferences Among Young People In Ethiopia Are Predicted By Food Security And Gender Attitudes, But Not Expected Pathogen Exposures. Human Nature.
- Hackman J, Munira S, Jesmin K, Hruschka DJ (2017). Revisiting psychological mechanisms in the anthropology of altruism. Human Nature.
- Hackman J, Danvers A, Hruschka DJ (2015). Closeness is enough for friends, but not mates or kin: mate and kinship premiums in India and U.S. Evolution and Human Behavior. 36: 137-145.
- Hruschka DJ, C Efferson, T Jiang, A Falletta-Cowden, S Sigurdsson, R McNamara, M Sands, S Munira, E Slingerland, and J Henrich (2014). Impartial institutions, parasite stress and the expanding social network. Human Nature. 25:4, 567-579.
- Hruschka DJ, Hackman J (2014). When are cross-group differences a product of a human behavioral immune system? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 8:4, 265-273.
- Hruschka DJ, Henrich J (2013). Economic and evolutionary hypotheses for cross-population variation in parochialism. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7, 559.
- Hruschka DJ, Henrich J (2013). Institutions, parasites and the persistence of in-group preferences. PLOS ONE. 8:5, e63642.
- Hackman J, Hruschka DJ. (2013). Fast life histories, not pathogens, account for U.S. state-level variation in homicide, maltreatment, family ties, and religiosity. Evolution and Human Behavior. 34:2, 118-124.
Global Monitoring of Healthy Growth, Obesity, and Undernutrition
- Hackman J*, Hruschka DJ (2020). Disentangling basal and accrued height-for-age for cross-population comparisons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 23990
- Hruschka DJ, Stulp G, Hackman JV* (2019). Identifying the limits to socioeconomic influences on human growth. Economics and Human Biology. 34, 239-251.
- Hruschka DJ, Hadley C (2016). How much do universal anthropometric standards bias the global monitoring of obesity and undernutrition? Obesity Reviews. 17 (11), 1030-1039.
- Hruschka DJ, Hagaman A* (2015). The physiological costs of reproduction among rich and poor in 65 countries. American Journal of Human Biology. 27: 5, 654-659.
- Hruschka DJ, Hadley C, Brewis A, Stojanowski C (2015). Genetic population structure accounts for ecogeographic rules in tropic and subtropic dwelling humans. PLOS ONE. 10(3): e0122301.
- Hadley CM, Hruschka DJ. Testing Ecological and Universal Models of Body Shape and Child Health Using a Global Sample of Infants and Young Children. Annals of Human Biology.
- Trainer S†, Brewis A, Hruschka DJ, Williams D (2015). Translating Obesity: Navigating the Front Lines of the “War on Fat." American Journal of Human Biology. 27: 61-68.
- Hruschka DJ, Hadley C, Brewis A. (2014) Disentangling basal and accumulated body mass for cross-population comparisons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 153:4, 542-550.
- Hadley C, Hruschka DJ (2014) Population level differences in adult body mass emerge in infancy and early childhood: Evidence from a global sample of low and lower-income countries. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 154:2, 232-238.
- Maupin J, Hruschka DJ (2014). Assessing the Accuracy of Two Proxy Measures for BMI in a Semi-rural, Low-Resource Setting in Guatemala. BMC Public Health. 14, 973.
- Hruschka DJ, Brewis AA (2013). Absolute wealth and world region strongly predict overweight among women (ages 18-49) in 360 populations across 36 developing countries. Economics and Human Biology. 11:3, 337-344.
- Hruschka DJ, Rush E, Brewis AA (2013). Accounting for population differences in the relationship between height, weight and fat mass: an application of Burton’s model. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 151:1, 68-76.
- Hruschka DJ (2012). Do economic constraints on food choice make people fat? A critical review of two hypotheses for the poverty-obesity paradox. American Journal of Human Biology. 24:3, 277-285.
Global Monitoring of Household Poverty & Wealth
- Lachaud J, Hruschka DJ, Kaiser BN, Brewis, A. Agricultural wealth better predicts mental wellbeing than market wealth among highly vulnerable households in Haiti: Evidence for the benefits of a multidimensional approach to poverty. American Journal of Human Biology. e23328
- Hadley C, Maxwell A†, Hruschka DJ (2019). Different forms of household wealth are associated with opposing risks for HIV infection in East Africa. World Development. 113, 344-351.
- Hruschka DJ, Hadley CM, Hackman J* (2017). Material wealth in 3D: Mapping multiple paths to prosperity in low- and middle-income countries. PLOS One. 12 (9). E0184616.
- Kaiser B, Hruschka DJ, Hadley C. Measuring wealth in low-income settings: A conceptual and how-to guide. American Journal of Human Biology.
- Hruschka DJ, Gerkey D, Hadley C (2015). Estimating the Absolute Wealth of Households. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 93: 483-490.
Culture, Social Networks & Health
- Voytyuk M*, Hruschka DJ (2017). Accounting for cross-cultural variation in perceptions of healthy eating. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
- Kagawa Singer M, Dressler W, George S, Baquet CR, Bell RA, Burhansstipanov L, Burke NJ, Dibble S, Elwood W, Garro L, Gravlee CC, Guarnaccia P, Hecht ML, Henderson J, Hruschka DJ, Lewis-Fernandez R, Like R, Mouton C, Myers HF, Page JP, Pasick R, Pescosolido B, Schoenberg N, Stoner B, Strayhorn G, Szalacha L, Trimble J, Weisner TS, Williams D (2016). Culture: the missing link in health research. Social Science and Medicine. 170: 237-246.
- Bruening M, Ohri-Vachaspati P, Brewis A, Laska MN, Todd M, Hruschka DJ, Schaefer DR, Whisner CM, Dunton G (2016). Longitudinal social networks impacts on weight and weight-related behaviors assessed using mobile-based ecological momentary assessments: Study Protocols for the SPARC study. BMC Public Health. 16:901.
- Edmonds JK†, Hruschka DJ, Bernard HR, Sibley L (2012). Women’s social networks and birth attendant decisions: application of the network episode model. Social Science and Medicine. 74:3 452-459.
- Hruschka DJ, Brewis AA, Wutich A, Morin B* (2011). Shared norms and their explanation for the social contagion of obesity. American Journal of Public Health. 101:S295–S300.
- Brewis A, Hruschka DJ, Wutich A (2011). Vulnerability to fat-stigma in women's everyday relationships. Social Science and Medicine. 73:4, 491-497.
- Kohrt BA, Hruschka DJ (2010). Nepali concepts of psychological trauma: the role of idioms of distress and ethnopsychology in alleviating suffering and preventing stigma. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. 34:2, 322-352.
- Hruschka DJ (2009). Culture as an explanation in population health. Annals of Human Biology. 36:3, 235-247.
- Sibley LM, Hruschka DJ, Kalim N, Khan J, Paul M, Edmonds JK, Koblinsky MA (2009). Cultural theories of postpartum bleeding Matlab, Bangladesh: implications for community health intervention. Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition. 27:3, 379-390.
- Brown RA, Hruschka DJ, Worthman CM (2009). Cultural models and fertility timing among Cherokee and white youth in Appalachia: beyond the mode. American Anthropologist. 111:4, 420-431.
- Hruschka DJ & Hadley C (2008). A glossary of culture in epidemiology. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 62:11, 947-51.
Modeling cultural variation and change
- Bhattacharya, T, Blasi DE,Croft W, Cysouw M, Hruschka DJ, Maddieson I, Retzlaff N,Smith E, Stadler PF, Starostin G, Youn (2018). Studying Language Evolution in the Age of Big Data. Journal of Language Evolution. 3 (1), 94-129
- Hruschka DJ, Branford S, Smith ED, Wilkins J, Meade A, Pagel M, Bhattacharya T (2015). Detecting regular sound changes in linguistics as events of concerted evolution. Current Biology. 25: 1-9.
- Hruschka DJ, Burger O (2016). How does variance in fertility change over the demographic transition? Philosophical Transactions B. 371 (1692), 20150155.
- Hruschka DJ, Maupin J (2013). Competence, Agreement, and Luck: Testing Whether Some People Agree More with a Cultural Truth than Do Others. Field Methods. 25:2, 107-123.
- Hruschka DJ, Christiansen M, Blythe R, Croft W, Heggarty P, Mufwene S, Pierrehumbert J, Poplack S (2009). Building social cognitive models of language change. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 13:11, 464-469.
- Hruschka DJ (2009). Defining cultural competence in context: diversity in friendship norms among U.S. high school students. Ethos. 37:2, 205-224.
- Hruschka DJ, Sibley LM, Kalim N, & Edmonds JK (2008). When there is more than one answer key: Cultural theories of postpartum hemorrhage in Matlab, Bangladesh. Field Methods. 20:4, 315-27.
- Hruschka,Daniel Jacob. RR: Building a Robust Foundation for Measuring Material Wealth in Low- and Middle-Income Settings. NSF-SBE (2017-2020)
- Hruschka, Daniel, Medin, Douglas. Workshop: Enhancing robust and generalizable experimental behavioral science. NSF-SBE (2016-2018)
- Bruening,Meredith Margaret*, Brewis Slade,Alexandra A, Hruschka,Daniel Jacob, Ohri-Vachaspati,Punam, Schaefer,David, Todd,Michael Wayne. The Role of Friendship Networkson BMI and Behaviors among College Freshman. HHS-NIH-OD(9/20/2013 - 8/31/2018).
- Hruschka,Daniel Jacob*. CAREER: Social Closeness Helping and Neglect: Examining the Roots of Favoritism in Rural Bangladesh. NSF-SBE(5/1/2012 - 4/30/2017).
- Hruschka,Daniel Jacob*. Virtues in Conflict: a Cross-Cultural Study of Virtue Dilemmas and their Resolution. UNIV OF CHICAGO(3/1/2010 - 2/29/2012).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
SSH 593 | Applied Project |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 494 | Special Topics |
ASB 494 | Special Topics |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 584 | Internship |
2023 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
ASB 357 | Society, Drugs and Health |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
SSH 593 | Applied Project |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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MBB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 510 | Health: Social BioculturalThry |
ASB 503 | Medical Anthropology |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 462 | Medical Anthro: Culture/Health |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 357 | Society and Drugs |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
Hruschka teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including Culture and Health: Medical Anthropology, Society & Drugs, Introduction to Global Health and Health: Social and Biocultural Theories. Hruschka also serves as a committee member in the graduate program, and teaches ISSR-sponsored workshops on Cultural Consensus Analysis.
Associate Editor. Evolution and Human Behavior. Journal Editor, Robert Kurzban (2013-present)
Editorial Board Member. Field Methods (2012-present)
Board Member-At-Large. Evolutionary Anthropology Society (2015-2018)