Titles

• Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
• Affiliated Faculty, Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Biography

Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a human evolutionary ecologist. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in South America and is especially well known for her in-depth work with the hunter-gatherer people of Paraguay.

Hurtado has taught both graduate- and undergraduate-level courses ranging from human evolution and emergence to epidemiological anthropology. Prior to her arrival at ASU, she was an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. She has additional teaching experience at Emory University, the University of Michigan and the University of Utah.

Education

• PhD, Anthropology, Columbia University, 1985
• BA, Anthropology, State University of New York at Purchase, 1980