Sara Stinson

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1978

Research Interests

My general area of expertise is in biological variation in living human populations. More specifically, my research has dealt with variation in physical growth and development among human populations. My interest is in understanding how the environment influences growth during the lifetime of the individual and in how body size variation has evolved. Most of my research has focused on South American populations, and I have conducted research on general patterns of variation in body size and shape in indigenous South American populations, on the effects of high altitude hypoxia on child growth, and on the growth of lowland tropical forest populations.

Representative Publications

• 1998 Stinson, S. Educational potential and attainment: long-term implications of childhood undernutrition. In: S. Strickland and P. Shetty (eds.) Human Biology and Social Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 132-150.
• 1996 Stinson, S. Early childhood growth of Chachi Amerindians and Afro-Ecuadorians in northwest Ecuador. American Journal of Human Biology 8:43-53.
• 1990 Stinson, S. Variation in body size and shape among South American Indians. American Journal of Human Biology 2:37-51.
• 1985 Stinson, S. Sex differences in environmental sensitivity during growth and development. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 28:123-147.
• 1982 Stinson, S. The effect of high altitude on the growth of children of high socioeconomic status in Bolivia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 59:61-71.

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