The University of Montana Department of Anthropology
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Kimber Haddix McKay
Lead Graduate Advisor
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Office Location: Social Sciences, 213 Office Telephone: (406) 243-4106 E-mail: kimber.mckay@mso.umt.edu |
Current Position
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana
Description
Kimber Haddix McKay is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in demography and human behavioral ecology. Her research focuses on the effects of marriage systems on fertility, and on demographic patterns in African and South Asian societies. She is also interested in the interaction between biology and culture, and in the ways in which anthropology can be useful in fields outside of academia. Dr. Haddix McKay has worked both full time and as a consulting anthropologist designing studies of health conditions and evolving attitudes toward health and treatment of illness in remote areas of Nepal and Uganda. She has also assisted in the design of locally appropriate development schemes aimed at improving health conditions, particularly in the use of sustainable energy technologies (especially solar projects) and in public health-related interventions such as latrine design, improved/smokeless cookstoves, lighting schemes, community based health training, and drama programs with specific health-related messages.
Office Hours
Tuesday 1:15-4:00pm
Field of Study
Demographic anthropology, applied medical anthropology, international development, human evolutionary ecology.
Courses
Human Behavioral Ecology (upper division undergraduate)
Peoples of Africa (upper division undergraduate)
Social Change (upper division undergraduate)
Population and Culture (upper division undergraduate)
Social Anthropology (upper division undergraduate)
Quantiative Behavioral Research Methods (upper division undergraduate)
Seminar in Ethnology (graduate seminar)
Applied Anthropology and International Health (graduate seminar)
Education
University of California at Berkeley
Pos-doctoral Fellow in Demographic Anthropology 1998-2000
University of California at Davis
Ph.D. Anthropology 1998
M.A. Anthropology 1994
Mount Holyoke College
B.A. Anthropology and Philosophy of Science 1990
Selected Publications
2005 Zahnd, A. and Haddix McKay, K. Renewable energy resources for improved, sustainable livelihood: A case study of a holistic community development project with a remote and poor mountain village in the Nepal Himalayas, Invited refereed paper, Proceedings of The 6th Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Production and Consumption,
2006 Zahnd, A., Haddix McKay, K., and Komp, R. Renewable energy village power systems for remote and impoverished Himalayan villages in Nepal, Proceedings of the International Conference on Renewable Energy for Developing Countries, Washington D.C. April 6-7 2006.
2007 Zahnd, A. and Haddix McKay, K. Invited keynote paper, Problems encountered with solar PV systems in Himalayan villages and possible remedies, published in the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy, 45th Annual ANZSES Conference, Solar 07, Alice Springs, Australia, October 2007.
2007 Zahnd, A. and McKay, K.H. Quatre piliers pour un développement holistique, Traces 24(12): 7-9.
2008 Zahnd, A. and McKay, K.H. A mountain to climb? How pico-hydro helps rural development in the Himalayas, Renewable Energy World, 11(2): 118-123.
2008 Haddix McKay, K. and Zahnd, A.
Commentaries and notes
1997 Borgerhoff Mulder, M and. Haddix, K. Comment on Levine and Silk, Current Anthropology, 38:388-89.
2005 Haddix McKay, K. Comment on Fouts et. al., Current Anthropology, 46(1): 46-47.
Publications
1994 Garcia, P., Haddix, K., and Maxwell, M. Linking Human and Non-Human Mating systems, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 9(9):314-315.
1995 Cohen, R., Haddix, K., Hurtado, E., and Dewey, K. Maternal Activity Budgets: Feasibility of Exclusive Breast Feeding for Six Months among Urban Women in Honduras, Social Science and Medicine, 41(4):527-36.
1999 Haddix, K., Gurung, J.B "Excess Women": Non-Marriage and Reproduction in Two Ethnic Tibetan Communities of Humla, Nepal, Himalayan Research Bulletin, 19(1): 56-65.
2001 Haddix, K. Leaving your Wife and your Brothers: When Polyandrous Marriages Fall Apart, Evolution and Human Behavior, 22(1):47-61.
2002 Haddix McKay, K. Health needs in two ethnic communities of Northwestern Nepal, Contributions to Nepalese Studies, 29(2): 241-273.
2003 Haddix McKay, K. Challenges to health care access in Maoist Nepal, Himalaya, XXII(2): 43-46.
2004 Tanner, R., Brown, P., Freimund, W. and Haddix McKay, K. Transfrontier Conservation Areas of Southern Africa and International Law in the Context of Community Involvement. Journal of South African Environmental Law and Policy, 11: 167-182
Specialized Skills
Sociocultural Anthropology; Demographic Anthropology; International Development
Professional Experience
2001-2002 Country Manager, Nepal—The ISIS Foundation. Project director and manager and lead researcher on various health-related development projects in both Nepal and Uganda (on leave from University of Montana)
2000-present Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana
1998-2000 Andrew Mellon post-doctoral fellow in demographic anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, Program in Population Research, under the supervision of Gene Hammel
1997– present, anthropological consultant to The ISIS Foundation, conducting baseline and longitudinal studies of rural health care conditions in Humla District, Nepal
International Experience
Current Research Sites:
Nepal
Uganda
Montana
Other Research Sites:
Kenya
Honduras
Languages:
Spanish
Nepali