Monique Borgerhoff Mulder

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
BornApril 1953 (age 71)
Den Haag, Holland
SpouseTim Caro
Academic background
EducationB.A., M.A Hons, Social Anthropology, 1975, University of Edinburgh
Ph.D., Anthropology, 1987, Northwestern University
ThesisMarriage and reproduction in the Kipsigis of Kenya (1987)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (born April 1953) is an American evolutionary anthropologist. She is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.

Early life and education

Borgerhoff Mulder was born in April 1953[1] in Den Haag, Holland[2] but was raised in Beirut and Great Britain. She completed her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Edinburgh and her PhD in anthropology at Northwestern University.[3]

Career

Following her PhD and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, Borgerhoff Mulder joined the anthropology faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1990.[3] Borgerhoff Mulder and her husband Tim Caro began conducting research in Mpimbwe, Tanzania, in 1995 which evolved to her gathering detailed economic, health and social information on the families in Kibaoni.[4] She continued to work with members of the community as her research evolved to understanding the dynamics of polygyny. In 2015, Borgerhoff Mulder's research team compared polygynous and monogamous households in 56 villages in northern Tanzania to see how their access to food and healthier children differed.[5]

Borgerhoff Mulder retired from UC Davis in 2019 and joined the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.[6] In August 2021, Borgerhoff Mulder became an external researcher at the Santa Fe Institute.[7] Later that month, she was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences for her projects relating to life history, inequality, natural resource management and patterned cultural variation.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  2. ^ "Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Ph.D." Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Monique Borgerhoff Mulder". Santa Fe Institute. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  4. ^ Rockwell, Susanne (Spring 2006). "Camp Davis, Tanzania". University of California, Davis. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  5. ^ Holder, Kathleen (October 30, 2015). "Often Decried, Polygyny May Have Some Advantages". University of California, Davis. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  6. ^ a b Fell, Andy; Kerlin, Kat; Nikos-Rose, Karen (April 27, 2021). "Geologist, Anthropologist and Biologist Elected to National Academy of Sciences". University of California, Davis. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
  7. ^ "SFI welcomes 9 new external researchers". Santa Fe Institute. August 2, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2022.