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Mary K. Shenk

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mks74@psu.edu
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(814) 863-1045

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University Park, PA 16802

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IEE Research Themes
Health and the Environment
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Titles and Affiliations
Associate Professor, Anthropology

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Wealth
Kinship
Bangladesh
India
Evolution
Low Fertility
Wealth Inequality
Market Integration
Rural Bangladesh
Social Network
Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB)
Fertility Decline
UK
China
Religiosity
Spouses
Demographic Transition
Parental Investment
Polygyny
Social Networks

Recent Publications

Responsibility, social aspirations, and contemporary low fertility: a case study of rural West Bengal, India

Das, K., Ghosh, S. & Shenk, M. K., 2024, In: Asian Population Studies. 20, 3, p. 308-326 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Nuclearization of maternal support networks in the UK and the US during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on women's financial and emotional wellbeing

Hassan, A., Spake, L., Shaver, J. H., Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R. & Sear, R., Jan 2024, In: Social Sciences and Humanities Open. 10, 100932.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Evolutionary medicine approaches to chronic disease: The case of irritable bowel syndrome

Lenover, M. B. & Shenk, M. K., Feb 2024, In: Evolutionary anthropology. 33, 1, e22010.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters

Page, A. E., Ringen, E. J., Koster, J., Mulder, M. B., Kramer, K., Shenk, M. K., Stieglitz, J., Starkweather, K., Ziker, J. P., Boyette, A. H., Colleran, H., Moya, C., Du, J., Mattison, S. M., Greaves, R., Sum, C. Y., Liu, R., Lew-Levy, S., Ntamboudila, F. K. & Prall, S. & 23 others, Towner, M. C., Blumenfield, T., Migliano, A. B., Major-Smith, D., Dyble, M., Salali, G. D., Chaudhary, N., Derkx, I. E., Ross, C. T., Scelza, B. A., Gurven, M. D., Winterhalder, B. P., Cortez, C., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Schacht, R., Macfarlan, S. J., Leonetti, D., French, J. C., Alam, N., tuz Zohora, F., Kaplan, H. S., Hooper, P. L. & Sear, R., Feb 27 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 9, e2318181121.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers

Shaver, J. H., Chvaja, R., Spake, L., Hassan, A., Badjie, J., Prentice, A. M., Cerami, C., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K. & Sosis, R., Dec 2024, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 36, 12, e24144.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Intensive Kinship, Development, and Demography: Why Pakistan has the Highest Rates of Cousin Marriage in the World

Shenk, M. K., Naz, S. & Chaudhry, T., Dec 2024, In: Population and Development Review. 50, 4, p. 1045-1090 46 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences

Spake, L., Hassan, A., Schaffnit, S. B., Alam, N., Amoah, A. S., Badjie, J., Cerami, C., Crampin, A., Dube, A., Kaye, M. P., Kotch, R., Liew, F., McLean, E., Munthali-Mkandawire, S., Mwalwanda, L., Petersen, A. C., Prentice, A. M., Zohora, F. T., Watts, J. & Sear, R. & 3 others, Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R. & Shaver, J. H., Apr 24 2024, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291, 2021, 20231422.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries

Spake, L., Schaffnit, S. B., Page, A. E., Hassan, A., Lynch, R., Watts, J., Sosis, R., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K. & Shaver, J. H., May 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 45, 3, p. 268-280 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations

Weitzel, E. M., Wilson, K. M., Spake, L., Schaffnit, S. B., Lynch, R., Sear, R., Shaver, J. H., Shenk, M. K. & Sosis, R., Sep 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 45, 5, 106613.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Does gender structure social networks across domains of cooperation? An exploration of gendered networks among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo

Mattison, S. M., MacLaren, N. G., Sum, C. Y., Shenk, M. K., Blumenfield, T. & Wander, K., Jan 16 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1868, 20210436.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Gender disparities in material and educational resources differ by kinship system

Mattison, S. M., Mattison, P. M., Beheim, B. A., Liu, R., Blumenfield, T., Sum, C. Y., Shenk, M. K., Seabright, E. & Alami, S., Aug 14 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1883, 20220299.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China

Mattison, S. M., MacLaren, N., Sum, C. Y., Mattison, P. M., Liu, R., Shenk, M. K., Blumenfield, T., Su, M., Li, H. & Wander, K., Nov 21 2023, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5, e4.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? the oasis theory of agricultural intensification

Medupe, D., Roberts, S. G., Shenk, M. K. & Glowacki, L., Aug 14 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1883, 20220300.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals

Ross, C. T., Hooper, P. L., Smith, J. E., Jaeggi, A. V., Smith, E. A., Gavrilets, S., tuz Zohora, F., Ziker, J., Xygalatas, D., Wroblewski, E. E., Wood, B., Winterhalder, B., Willführ, K. P., Willard, A. K., Walker, K., von Rueden, C., Voland, E., Valeggia, C., Vaitla, B. & Urlacher, S. & 84 others, Towner, M., Sum, C. Y., Sugiyama, L. S., Strier, K. B., Starkweather, K., Major-Smith, D., Shenk, M., Sear, R., Seabright, E., Schacht, R., Scelza, B., Scaggs, S., Salerno, J., Revilla-Minaya, C., Redhead, D., Pusey, A., Purzycki, B. G., Power, E. A., Pisor, A., Pettay, J., Perry, S., Page, A. E., Pacheco-Cobos, L., Oths, K., Oh, S. Y., Nolin, D., Nettle, D., Moya, C., Migliano, A. B., Mertens, K. J., McNamara, R. A., McElreath, R., Mattison, S., Massengill, E., Marlowe, F., Madimenos, F., Macfarlan, S., Lummaa, V., Lizarralde, R., Liu, R., Liebert, M. A., Lew-Levy, S., Leslie, P., Lanning, J., Kramer, K., Koster, J., Kaplan, H. S., Jamsranjav, B., Hurtado, A. M., Hill, K., Hewlett, B., Helle, S., Headland, T., Headland, J., Gurven, M., Grimalda, G., Greaves, R., Golden, C. D., Godoy, I., Gibson, M., El Mouden, C., Dyble, M., Draper, P., Downey, S., DeMarco, A. L., Davis, H. E., Crabtree, S., Cortez, C., Colleran, H., Cohen, E., Clark, G., Clark, J., Caudell, M. A., Carminito, C. E., Bunce, J., Boyette, A., Bowles, S., Blumenfield, T., Beheim, B., Beckerman, S., Atkinson, Q., Apicella, C., Alam, N. & Mulder, M. B., 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 22, e2220124120.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh

Schaffnit, S. B., Page, A. E., Lynch, R., Spake, L., Sear, R., Sosis, R., Shaver, J., Alam, N., Towner, M. C. & Shenk, M. K., Dec 12 2023, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5, e5.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review