Richard S. Meindl

Professional Experience

1991-Present	Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, KSU
1991-Present	Professor of Anthropology, KSU
1990-Present	Chairperson, Biological Anthropology Program, School of Biomedical Sciences, KSU
1979-Present	Graduate faculty, Department of Anthropology, KSU
1979-Present	Graduate faculty, School of Biomedical Sciences, Biological Anthropology Program, KSU

Service:

2000-Present	Joint Commission on the Evaluation of Teaching at Kent State
2000	Sole Outside Consultant, Search Committee for Faculty Hire, Department of Classics and Anthropology, Akron University
1999	Sole Examiner, Honors Department, Oberlin College
1995	External reviewer for Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
1994	External reviewer for Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Department of Anthropology, Ball State University
1991-1993	Liberal Education Requirements Committee, Honors College, KSU
1983-1991	Faculty Advisory Committee, Department of Sociology, and Anthropology representative - KSU
1986-1991	Kirtlandia Society, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Editorial Board
1983-1989	KSU Press, Editorial Board
1981-Present	Undergraduate Advisor, Anthropology, KSU

Publications (last 10 years)

• Simpson, S.W., C.O. Lovejoy, and R.S. Meindl. 1992. Further evidence on relative dental maturation and somatic developmental rate in hominoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 87:29-38.
• Meindl, R.S. 1992. Demographic Structure of Early Human Populations. In Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Human Species, J.S. Jones, R.D. Martin, D. Pilbeam, eds. Cambridge University Press, U.K.
• Sherwood, R.J., H.B. Robinson, R.L. May and R.S. Meindl. 1992. Standardized residuals as a means for detection of growth alteration in the pathologic human fetus. Teratology , 46:419-427.
• Bedford, M.E., K.F. Russell, C.O. Lovejoy, R.S. Meindl, S.W. Simpson and P. Stuart-Macadam. 1993. Test of the multifactorial aging method using skeletons with known age-at-death from the Grant Collection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 91(3):287-297.
• May, R.L., A.H. Goodman and R.S. Meindl. 1993. Response of bone and enamel formation to nutritional supplementation and morbidity among malnourished Guatemalan children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 92(1):37-51.
• Russell, K.F., S.W. Simpson, J.E. Genovese, M.D. Kinkel, R.S. Meindl and C.O. Lovejoy. 1993. Independent test of the fourth rib aging technique. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 92(1):53-62.
• Meindl, R.S., J.A. Hudson and G.F. Zehner. 1993. A multivariate anthropometric method for crew station design. AL-TR-1993-0054. Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB.
• Walker, R.A., C.O. Lovejoy, and R.S. Meindl. 1994. The Histomorphological and Geometric Properties of Human Femoral Cortex in Individuals Over 50: Implications for Histomorphological Determination of Age-At-Death.  American Journal of Human Biology, 6:659-667.
• Meindl, R.S., M.E. Bedford, K.F. Russell, C.O. Lovejoy and S.W. Simpson. 1995. Testing the Test of the Multifactorial Aging Method: Reply to Fairgrieve and Oost. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 97:85-87.
• Lovejoy, C.O., R.S. Meindl, R.G. Tague, and B. Latimer. 1996. The Senescent Biology of the Hominoid Pelvis: its Bearing on the Pubic Symphysis and Auricular Surface as Age-at-death Indicators in the Human Skeleton. Rivisita de Anthropologia 73: 31-49.
• Lovejoy, C.O., R.S. Meindl, R.G. Tague and B. Latimer. 1997. The Comparative Senescent Biology of the Human Pelvis and its Implications for the Use of Age-at-death Indicators in the Human Skeleton. In: Integrating Anthropological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population, R. Paine, ed. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Carbondale.
• Sherwood, R.J., H.B. Robinson, R.S. Meindl, and R.L. May. 1997 Pattern and process of growth of the abnormal human fetus.  Human Biology, 69: 849-871.
• Meindl, R.S. and K.F. Russell. 1998. Recent Advances in Method and Theory in Paleodemography.  Annual Review of Anthropology, 27: 375-399.
• Meindl, R.S., R.P. Mensforth, and H. P. York. 1999. Estimates of Age Structure and Mortality from the Ward Site, a Late-Archaic Population.  In: Estudios de Anthropología Biológica.  Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.  Vol. IX. Pp. 313-335.
• Reno, P.L., M.A. McCollum, C.O. Lovejoy, and R.S. Meindl. 2000.  Adaptationism and the anthropoid postcranium: Selection does not govern the length of the radial neck.  Journal of Morphology, 248: 59-67.
• C.O. Lovejoy, K.G. Heiple, and R.S. Meindl. 2001.  Brief communication: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature, 410: 325-326.
• Prufer, O.H., S.E. Pedde, and R.S. Meindl (eds.) 2001. Archaic Transitions in Ohio and Kentucky Prehistory. Kent State Univeristy Press, Kent, Ohio.

• Lovejoy, C.O., R.S. Meindl, R.G. Tague, and B.M. Latimer. April 1997.  The senescent biology of the pelvis and its implications for age determination. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Meindl, R.S., R.P. Mensforth, H.P. York. November 1997.  Estimates of age structure and mortality from the Ward site, a late-archaic population.  IX Coloquio Internacional de Antropologia Fiscia "Juan Comas."  Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Querétero, México.
• Reno, P.L., C.O. Lovejoy, and R.S. Meindl. April 1998.  An intergrative approach to hominoid forelimb elongation.  American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Hudson, J.A., G.F. Zehner, and R.S. Meindl.  August 1998.  The USAF multivariate accommodation method. H.F.E.S., Human Factors Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
• Meindl, R.S., R.P. Mensforth, and H.P. York. October 1998.  The palodemography of a late-archaic sedentary population from Kentucky.  Fifth Congress of the Latin American Associaiton of Biological Anthropology (ALAB), Havana, Cuba.
• Meindl, R.S., R.P. Mensforth, and H. P. York. December 1998.  Mortality, fertility, and growth in the Kentucky late-archaic. 97th Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia.
• Reno, P.L., C.O. Lovejoy, K.F. Kern, S.W. Simpson, and R.S. Meindl. April 1999.  Estimation of sexual dimorphism in fossil species including Australopithecus afarensis: a new technique and tests of its accuracy using extant hominoids.  American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.
• Sherwood, R.J., R.S. Meindl, H.B. Robinson, and R.L. May. April 1999.  Estimation of fetal age.  American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.
• York, H.P., C.O. Lovejoy, and R.S. Meindl. April 1999. Age changes in the auricular surface of the sacroiliac joint in Macaca mulatta. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Columbus, Ohio.
• Meindl, R.S. October 1999.  Paleodemography of the Ward site, McLean County, Kentucky.  Invited presentation, University of Rome, Tivoli, Italy.
• Meindl, R.S. and C.O. Lovejoy. March 2000.  Can molecular clocks tell time?  Wenner-Gren Symposium No. 126, "Time and Temporalities in the Anthropological Record." Illetas, Mallorca.
• R.S. Meindl, Lovejoy, C.O., R.G. Tague, and B.M. Latimer. August 2000.  The evolution of the symphysis pubis and the auricular surface of the ilium in higher primates and their uses in paleodemography.  6th Congress of the Society for the Study of Demograph in México, México City.
Meindl, R.S., R.P. Mensforth, and H.P. York. August 2000. The Vital Rates of Extinct Hunting and Gathering Populations: Completing Archaeological Demography with Ethnographic data. 6^th Congress of the Society for the Society for the Study of Demography in México, México City.

Hernández, P., R.S. Meindl, and L. Márquez. August 2000. Los Antiquos Chinamperos de Xochimilco en el Postclásico: Su Dinámica Demográfica. 6^th Congress of the Society for the Study of Demography in México, México City.

Meindl, R.S., C.O. Lovejoy, and R.G. Tague. October 2000. Age Changes in the Adult Primate Pelvis. 6^th Congress of the Latin American Association of Biological Anthropology (ALAB), Piriápolis, Uruguay.

Meindl, R.S. October 2000. Overcoming Biases in Paleodemography. Estimating Adult Skeletal Age and Population Growth. Invited Lecture, Universidad de La República Magallanes, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Lovejoy, C.O., P.L. Reno, M.A. McCollum, M.W. Hamrick, R.S. Meindl, and M.J. Cohn. January, 2001. Evolution of Primate Hands: Growth Scaling Registers with Posterior HOXD Expression. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Chicago.

Reno, P.L., C.O. Lovejoy, M.A. McCollum, M.W. Hamrick, R.S. Meindl, and M.J. Cohn. March, 2001. Ontogenetic Data Suggest the Presence of HOXD Targets that Act as Growth Scalars in the Hominoid Forearm and Hand. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Kansas City.

Meindl, R.S. August 2001. The Paleodemography of the Green River Archaic, Kentucky, USA. XXIV

General Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (L’UIESP, Paris)

Salvador, Brazil.

• Meindl, R.S., K.F. Russell, C.O. Lovejoy, and D. Ubelaker. September, 2001. The Implications of Developmental Anatomy for Paleodemography: Comparisons of the Public Symphysis and the Auricular Surface, with New Auricular Standards from the Terry Collection. XI Coloquio International de Antropología Física "Juan Comas". Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Orizaba, Mexico.
• Meindl, R.S. September, 2001. Using Measures of Modern Fertility to Overcome a Major Bias in Paleodemography. XI Coloquio International de Anthropología Física "Juan Comas". Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Orizaba, Mexico.

 

Doctoral Dissertations Directed:

R.G. Tague,  Biological Anthropology, KSU	"Obstetric Adaptations of the Human Bony Pelvis"	1986
R.A. Walker, Biological Anthropology, KSU	"Assessment of Cortical Bone Dynamics and Skeletal Age at Death from Femoral Cortical Histomorphology"	1989
K.F. Russell, Biological Anthropology, KSU	"Determination of Age-at-Death from Human Dental Remains"	1996

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