Cammie Curtin

I am an interdisciplinary social scientist studying cultural evolution, with a special interest in how culture shapes social structure, social psychology, and behavior. My recent research examines how social norms and social institutions sustain cooperation within indigenous communities of Oaxaca, Mexico. My work combines cultural evolutionary theory with methods from anthropology, psychology, and economics, including ethnographic fieldwork, surveys, behavioral economics games, natural experiments, and econometrics with secondary data. I earned my PhD in Human Evolution Biology from Harvard University, and my BA in Neuroscience from Middlebury College.

This year, I am teaching GenEd 1056: Human Nature, HEB 126: Research in Cultural Evolution, and HEB 97: Sophomore Tutorial.