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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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Marriage
Bangladesh
Kinship
Fertility
Population Dynamics
Social Support
Social Networking
Market
Demographic Statistics
Society
Spouses
Social Networks
India
Ecology
Anthropology
Human Fertility
Education
Markets
Fathers
China

Recent Publications

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., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., 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., Kiabiya Ntamboudila, F., Prall, S., & 23 othersTowner, 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., Zohora, F. T., 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, p. e2318181121

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

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

Das, K., Ghosh, S. & Shenk, M. K., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Asian Population Studies.

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 othersTowner, 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

Dowry Inflation: Perception or Reality?

Lankes, J., Shenk, M. K., Towner, M. C. & Alam, N., Aug 2022, In: Population Research and Policy Review. 41, 4, p. 1641-1672 32 p.

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

Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory

Lynch, R., Shenk, M. K., Shaver, J. H. & Spake, L., 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 4, p. 406-413 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Religiosity is associated with greater size, kin density, and geographic dispersal of women’s social networks in Bangladesh

Lynch, R., Schaffnit, S., Sear, R., Sosis, R., Shaver, J., Alam, N., Blumenfield, T., Mattison, S. M. & Shenk, M., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 18780.

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

Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China

Mattison, S. M., Hare, D., Maclaren, N. G., Reynolds, A. Z., Sum, C. Y., Liu, R., Shenk, M. K., Blumenfield, T., Su, M., Li, H. & Wander, K., Feb 2022, In: Current anthropology. 63, 1, p. 118-124 7 p.

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

Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective

Shaver, J. H., Spake, L., Lynch, R. & Shenk, M. K., 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 4, p. 417-425 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility

Spake, L., Hassan, A., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R. & Shaver, J. H., 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 4, p. 343-346 4 p.

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