Curriculum PDF (updated June 2021)

Claudia R. Valeggia

Education

1996 Ph.D. in Animal Behavior University of California, Davis, CA

1995 M.S. in Animal Behavior University of California, Davis, CA

1988 Licenciatura in Biology (M.S. equivalent) University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Appointments

2018 – Present Chair, Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University

2014 - Present Professor of Anthropology, Yale University

2010 - Present Corresponding Member, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET), Argentina

2016 – 2019 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University

2012 – 2014 Director, Population Aging Research Center, University of Pennsylvania

2011 – 2014 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania

2008 - 2014 Faculty member of the Graduate Group in Demography, University of Pennsylvania

2007 - 2014 Faculty Member of the Psychology Department Graduate Group

2005 - 2014 Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania

2005 - 2011 Francis E. Johnston Term Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

2002 – 2005 Director, Chaco Area Reproductive Ecology Program, Department of Anthropology, Reproductive Ecology Laboratory, Harvard University, U.S.A.

1998 – 2010 Researcher, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina.

1998 – 2002 Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Reproductive Ecology Laboratory, Harvard University, U.S.A.

1997 – 1998 Instructor, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Davis.

1996 Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Davis. U.S.A.

Grants & Projects

National Science Foundation IRES (2021-2024) International Research Experience for Students: Behavioral Ecology, Demography and Conservation of Primates in the Humid Chaco of Argentina

Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant 2018 Research grant fund for graduate students doing research in Latin America (Administered through the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies)

Hecht Global Health Faculty Network Award 2018 Establishment of the Latin American Indigenous Health Network at Yale

National Science Foundation – DDRIG Program (PI: Kendall Arslanian) 2018 Prenatal and postnatal correlates of Samoan infant adiposity from birth to four months

HHMI Course-based undergraduate research experience grant 2018 For teaching a hands- on laboratory class to attract and retain minority students in STEM fields

National Science Foundation RAPID (Co-PI, De la Iglesia and Fernandez-Duque) 2017-2018 In search of the ancestral sleep

McMillan Center for International Studies 2016 Therapeutic itineraries among the Qom of Argentina

L.S.B. Leakey Foundation (in collaboration with Dr. H. De la Iglesia) 2014-201 Searching for ancestral sleep in human populations of the Argentinean Chaco

NIA 2-P30-AG012836-16 (PI) 2012-201 Center on the Demography of Aging

NSF BCS-0952264 – CAREER Award (PI) 2010-201 Life history transitions among the Toba of Argentina

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (PI) 201 Hormonal correlates of three life history transitions

NIA/PARC P30-AG012836 (Pilot PI) 2012-2013 Metabolic profiles of female reproductive aging: A comparative study

University Research Foundation - University of Pennsylvania (PI) 2010-201 Life history transitions among the Toba of Argentina – Database management

Canadian Institute of Health Research (Co-PI) 2010-201 Interplay between women's stress and reproductive axes: The dynamic transition from post-postpartum infertility to ovarian cyclicity

NIA P30 Demography of Aging (AG 012836-15) (PI) 2009-201 Hormonal and cultural correlates of physical discomforts during the menopausal transition

LSB Leakey Foundation (PI) 2008-200 Growth and life history in children of the Argentine Chaco