Dr. Daniel Hruschka

Associate Professor
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My work asks how we as humans make our culture and how culture makes us human. How does our culture influence the way we face tough ethical decisions or deal with serious illness? How do we transform culture by the force of both our best efforts and our unintentional actions? I approach these questions as an anthropologist, but I borrow pragmatically from across the social sciences, adapting and developing the tools - qualitative and quantitative, observational and experimental, analytical and agent-based - that are best suited for each specific question. Much of my work focuses on developing novel ways of framing and testing the wealth of hypotheses in the social sciences about two specific questions - how humans stay healthy and how humans cooperate.

 

Major Awards

2012-2013: Centennial Professor Award, Associated Students of ASU

2011-2012: Faculty Achievement Award for Defining Edge Research: Young Investigator, ASU

2012: Director’s Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Teaching, SHESC

2007: Best New Investigator Paper Award, Evolutionary Anthropology Society

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After receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Emory University, Dr. Daniel Hruschka is now an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University.