Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333

Fields of Interest

Cultural evolution, behavioral ecology, mathematical modeling, East Asia, Latin America, evolutionary demography, cliodynamics

2012-present

Post-doctoral Fellow. Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque

2007-2012	Ph.D. Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
2005-2006	M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2000-2004	B.A. Honors. Anthropology/History. University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

2015	“The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging”, Co-Investigator, National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging $590,659
2014	Administrative Supplement to “The Human Life Course and the Biodemography of Aging”, Co-Investigator National Institutes of Health / National Institute on Aging $15,000
2014	“Surviving the Flood: Vulnerability, Risk Management, and Resilience among Tsimane Forager-Farmers of Bolivia”, Co-Investigator National Science Foundation $126,000
2009	Graduate Fellowship Block Grant The University of California $10,800
2007	Graduate Scholars Fellowship in Ecology The University of California $34,022
2004	Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society

2014	German Busch Hospital, Trinidad, Bolivia. Supervised medical scanning of Tsimane patients, translation for US cardiologists.
2014	Tsimane Villages, Beni Department, Bolivia. Interviews with Tsimane people on technological diffusion, market integration and media acculturation.
2013	Tsimane Villages, Beni Department, Bolivia. Interviews with Tsimane people on language evolution, horticultural focal follows, and energy-expenditure sampling.
2008	Central Valley Communities, California, USA. Interviews with city leaders and urban planners regarding approaches to climate change and sustainability.
2009	Santa Fe Institute. Research design and analysis for ethnographic datasets from 21 anthropological field sites.
2004	Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara. Marine sciences geographic information systems (GIS) technician.
2002	Santa Barbara Historical Museum. Digitized historical census archives for faculty project on 19th-century Irish immigration to California.

2013, 2014, 2015	ANTH 160 – The Human Life Course
2011, 2012	ESP 178 – Applied Research Methods
2014	ANTH 360 – Human Behavioral Ecology*
2014	ANTH 560 – Research Computing in Evolutionary Anthropology*
2011	ANT 50 – Evolution and Human Nature
2010	ANT 102 – Cultural Ecology*

2010, 2011, 2012	BIS 2B – Ecology and Evolution
2011	ANT 1 – Physical Anthropology
2009	ANT 131 – Ecology and Politics
2009	ESP 10 – Current Issues in the Environment

2009	Lubell, M., Beheim, B.A., Hillis, V. & Handy, S. (2009) Achieving Sustainability in California’s Central Valley. UC Davis Sustainable Transportation Center
2003	Beheim, B.A. & Reis, M. (2003) A Theory of Social Formalism: The Four Horsemen and the New Deal. Law and Society Review at the University of California, Santa Barbara II:85-94.

2015	Beheim, B.A. “Estimating Heritabilities of Reaction Norms with Directed Acyclic Graphs” Dynamics of Wealth Inequality and Family Structure, Santa Fe Institute
2012	Beheim, B.A. “Strategic Social Learning and Evolutionary Arms Races in the Game of Go”, Santa Fe Institute
2012	Beheim, B.A. “Evolutionary Decomposition and the Dynamics of Inequality” Dynamics of Wealth Inequality and Family Structure, Santa Fe Institute
2011	Beheim, B.A. “Developing Measures of Cultural Variation and Dynamics in Hokkaido, Japan”, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Journal of Theoretical Biology, Advances in Complex Systems, Human Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior