Nina Jablonski

Nina Jablonski
Jablonski in 2017
Bornc. 1955 or 1956 (age 68–69)[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College (1975 A.B.) University of Washington (1981 Ph.D.)
AwardsFletcher Foundation Fellow, 2005, Guggenheim Fellowship, 2012
Scientific career
Fieldsanthropology, palaeobiology, paleontology, human biology
InstitutionsThe Pennsylvania State University
Thesis Functional Analysis of the Masticatory Apparatus of Theropithecus gelada (Primates: Cercopithecidae)  (1981)
Websiteanth.la.psu.edu/people/ngj2

Nina G. Jablonski (born c. 1953/1954)[1] is an American anthropologist and palaeobiologist, known for her research into the evolution of skin color in humans. She is engaged in public education about human evolution, human diversity, and racism. In 2021, she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences[2] and in 2009, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3] She is an Evan Pugh University Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, and the author of the books Skin: A Natural History,[4] Living Color: The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color,[5] and the co-author (with Sindiwe Magona and Lynn Fellman) of Skin We Are In.[6]

  1. ^ a b Dreifus, Claudia (January 9, 2007). "A Conversation With Nina G. Jablonski: Always Revealing, Human Skin Is an Anthropologist's Map". The New York Times. Jablonski … 53
  2. ^ "2021 NAS Election". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  3. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
  4. ^ Jablonski, Nina G (2006). Skin: a natural history. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24281-4. OCLC 804311916.
  5. ^ Jablonski, Nina G (2014). Living color: the biological and social meaning of skin color. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-28386-2. OCLC 915663938.
  6. ^ Magona, Sindiwe; Jablonski, Nina G; Fellman, Lynn (2018). Skin we are in. ISBN 978-1-4856-2608-4. OCLC 1052903822.

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