Curriculum Vitae
Adam Howell Boyette
PhD Candidate, Anthropology
Washington State University, Vancouver
adam.boyette@email.wsu.edu
831-325-4780
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Education
PhD Candidacy, Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
MA, Anthropology, 2006, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
BA, Psychobiology (with Honors), 2002, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Research Interests
Social learning, cultural transmission, cooperation, egalitarianism, child development,
anthropology of childhood, hunter-gatherers.
Research Experience
PhD Field Research: Season 2, Central African Republic, March 2010-September 2010
PhD Field Research: Season 1, Central African Republic, July 2008-November 2008
MA Thesis Study: Parental Investment and Men’s Sexual Behavior: Life History Theory and
Reproductive Strategies in a Sample of American Men
Courses Taught
2011 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Washington State University, Vancouver
2011 Physical Anthropology Lab, Washington State University, Vancouver
2009 Cultural Ecology, Washington State University, Vancouver
2007 Sex, Evolution and Human Behavior, Washington State University, Vancouver
Publications
In prep Boyette, Adam Howell. The Ontogeny of Sharing Among Aka Forest Foragers and
Ngandu farmers of the Central African Republic.
In prep Boyette, Adam Howell. Physical Contact and Social Development Among Aka Forest
Foragers: Implications for Egalitarianism
2011 Hewlett, B. S, Fouts, H. N., Boyette, A. H. & Hewlett, B. L. Social learning among
Congo Basin hunter-gatherers. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B., 366: 1168-1178.
Presentations
2011 Boyette, Adam Howell, The Nature of Play among Aka Forest Foragers and Ngandu
Farmers of the Central African Republic, Paper presentation, meeting of the A02 Team
of the Replacement Drama Project, Kobe, Japan.
2010 Boyette, Adam Howell, The Transmission of Culture During Childhood: Aka Forest
Foragers and Ngandu Farmers of CAR, Paper presentation, International Conference on
Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers, Montpellier, France.
2010 Boyette, Adam Howell, The Prominence of Other Children in Culture Learning During
Aka Forager Early through Late Childhood, Paper presentation, Integrated annual
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meeting of the Society for Cross-cultural Research/Society for Anthropological Sciences,
Albuquerque, NM.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Aka Childhood: Trends and Implications, Paper presentation,
Workshop on Recent Research among Congo Basin Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers,
Albuquerque, NM.
Boyette, Adam Howell, “The Giving Environment” as Pedagogical Context: an
Empirical Account of Aka Forager Children’s Social Learning and What it Means for the
Transmission of Culture, Paper presentation, 108th Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Culture in Transmission: A Quantative Account of Daily
Learning among Aka Forest Forager Children from Middle to Late Childhood. Paper
presentation, Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Fullerton,
CA.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Learning Before Schooling: What We Can Learn About Teaching
from Traditional Education Practices. Paper presention, 62 Annual Northwestern
Anthropological Conference, Newport, OR.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Scaffolding for Cooperative Breeding Among Aka Foragers.
Paper presentation, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
San Francisco, CA.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Male Reproductive Strategies: an Analysis of Rearing
Environment Effects on Paternal Investment. Paper presentation, Integrated conference
of the Society for Cross-cultural Research/Society for Anthropological Sciences, New
Orleans, LA.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Rearing Environment and Male Sexual Behavior: Evidence for
Adaptive Response and Cultural Influence. Paper presentation, 106th Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC.
Boyette, Adam Howell, Rearing Environment and Male Sexual Behavior: Evidence for
Adaptive Response and Socialization. Paper presentation, 60th Annual Northwest
Anthropological Conference, Pullman, WA.
Boyette, Adam H., Sexuality and the Adapted Self: Parental Effects on Personality and
Reproductive Strategy. Paper presentation, 59th Annual Northwest Anthropological
Conference, Seattle, WA.
Boyette, Adam H. and John Q. Patton, Dictator Game Play and Colaitional Cohesion in
the Eduadorian Amazon: A Community by Community Analysis of Strategic Generosity.
Poster presentation,104th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Washington DC.
Boyette, Adam H. and Shane Macfarlan, Misahualli: Field Observations of Metropolitan
Monkeys and Implications for Ecotourism and the Ecology of Behavioral Traditions.
Department of Anthropology, Washington State University.
Boyette, Adam H. and Shane Macfarlan, Exploring the Conundrum of Altruism Through
Third Party Punishment Games. Department of Anthropology, Washington State
University.
Films
2007 Boyette, Jeffrey B. and Adam Howell Boyette, Dirs. (2007) Nature Capital:
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Conservation, Tourism and the Primate’s Place.
Fellowships
2007-2012
NSF IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling
2005
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship
Grants and Awards
2010 WSU Vancouver Graduate Student Travel Grant, $608
2010 WSU Graduate Student Travel Grant, $254
2009 Society for Anthropological Sciences AAA Student Paper Prize, $200
2009 WSU Vancouver Graduate Student Travel Grant, $600
2009 WSU Vancouver Graduate Student Travel Grant, $360
2009 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Dissertation Fieldwork Grant,
$12,360
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological Association (Since 2004)
Evolutionary Anthropology Society of the AAA (Since 2004)
Human Behavior and Evolution Society (Since 2004)
Society for Anthropological Sciences (Since 2006)
WSU Evolutionary Anthropology Journal Club (co-founder, 2004)
Lamda Alpha (Anthropology Honors Society, WSU Chapter, since 2006)
Elected Offices
Student Board Representative, Evolutionary Anthrpology Society, 2009-2011
Languages
French
Spanish
DiAka (CAR)
Sango (CAR)
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