Sausage Of Science

In episode 17, we interview Kathy Oths and Hannah Smith from the University of Alabama about their recent AJHB article “A decade of rapid change: Biocultural influences on child growth in highland Peru” (Vol. 30, Issue 2, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23072). Oths is Professor of Anthropology, and Smith is a Master’s student in the program working with Dr. Oths. In this interview, we talk to Oths and Smith about Oths’ long-term work on traditional healers and the impact of travel on birth size, growth, and health in highland Peru, including her perilous flight from the Shining Path at the end of her dissertation work in the 1980s. Smith has been data analyst and accompanied Oths in recent fieldwork in Peru. For more about Oths, go to her website: http://koths.people.ua.edu/. Check out Smith on her Research Gate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah_Smith106 Photo of Oths and Smith conducting fieldwork in Peru courtesy Kathy Oths. The Sausage of Science is produced by Ca