Professional Service

American Association for the Advancement of Science , Member 1964 -present; elected Fellow 1987, Nominations Committee, Section H, 1986-89. Delegate to the Council, Section H. (elected) 1992- 95; elected, Chair-elect, Anthropology Section (Section H), 1996; Chair, Anthropology Section (Section H), 1997, Retiring Chair, Anthropology Section (Section H), 1998

American Association of Physical Anthropologists , Member 1963 -present; Vice-President, 1982-84; Program Chairman, Annual Meetings 1982-84; Local Arrangements Chairman, 1974; Executive Committee (Membership Chairman) 1979; Student Paper Award Committee 1977; Chairman, Membership Committee 1972-73; Ad Hoc Committee for the Reburial Issue 1984-86; Chair, Committee on Changing Format for Scientific Session of the American Association of Physical Anthropology, 1984; Ad Hoc Committee on the Relation of the American Association of Physical Anthropology with the American Anthropological Association, Appointed by the President of AAPA; elected President, 1987-1989.

American Anthropological Association , Member 1963- ; Fellow, 1971; Associate Program Editor, Annual Meetings, Houston 1977, Los Angeles 1978; Executive Board 1983-87; Board of Directors 1983-88; Chairman of Biological Unit 1984-87; Committee for Selection of the American Anthropological Association's Distin­guished Service Award 1984-87; Representative to Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1985-89; Chairman, Committee on Anthropology and the Government 1985-86; member, Committee on External Relations, 1986; nominee, Presi­dent Elect, 1987. General Anthropology Section, Distinguished Lecture, 1994. Appointed Long Range Planning Committee, 1999. Biological Anthropology Section, Distinguished Lecture, 2004.

Society for the Study of Human Biology , Elected, May 1965-1976.

New York Academy of Science , 1967-Present

Current Anthropology , Associate. 1970-present

Human Biology Council , 1978-present; Nominations Committee 1978.

Paleopathology Association , 1980-Present

Sigma Xi , Elected 1963; Elected 2nd Vice-President, University of Massachusetts Chapter 1982; Elected 1st Vice-President, University of Massachusetts Chapter 1983; Elected President, University of Massachusetts Chapter 1984; Past President (Executive Board member), University of Massachusetts Chapter 1985.

Northeast Anthropological Association , President-elect, 1986; President, 1987-1988.

Society for Medical Anthropology , 1980-present; elected Executive Bd., 1986-1989.

Massachusetts Society of Professors , elected Executive Board, 1987.

Council on Nutritional Anthropology , 1980-present; Nominee, President 1982.

Southern Anthropology Society , Program Chair, 1994, 2004