1987       Ph.D., University of Michigan (Anthropology)
1983       M.A., University of Michigan (Anthropology)
1980       B.S., The Pennsylvania State University (Biology, Summa Cum Laude)

Field Work

Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Siberia

Grants

Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1990, 2000
National Geographic Society,  1997
National Science Foundation, 1991, 2000
Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, 1991, 1994 
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1990
US Man & the Biosphere, 1991

Selected Publications

Gravelee, C.C., Bernard, H.R, and W.R. Leonard (2003). Heredity, environment, and cranial form: A reanalysis of Boas’s immigrant data. American Anthropologist 105(1): 125–138.

Leonard, W.R. (2002). Food for thought: dietary change was a driving force in human evolution. Scientific American 106-115.

Antón, S.C., Leonard, W.R., and M.L. Robertson (2002). An ecomorphological model of the initial hominid dispersal from Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 43: 773–785.

Leonard, W.R. and M.H. Crawford (2002). The biological diversity of herding populations. Human Biology of Pastoral Populations 1-9.

Leonard, W.R., Spencer, G.J., Galloway, V.A., and L. Osipova (2001). Declining growth status of indigenous Siberian children in post-Soviet Russia. Human Biology 74(2): 197–209.

Leonard, W.R., DeWalt, K.M., Stansbury, J.P., and M.K. McCaston (2000). The influence of dietary  quality on the growth of highland and coastal Ecuadorian children.  American Journal of Human Biology 12:825-837.

Berti, P.R., Leonard, W.R., and W.J. Berti (1998). Stunting in an Andean community: Prevalence and etiology. American Journal of Human Biology 10:229-240.

Berti, P.R. and W.R. Leonard (1998). Demographic and socioeconomic determinants of variation in nutrient intake in an Andean community. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105:407-417, 1998.

Leonard, W.R., Katzmarzyk, P.T., and M.H. Crawford (1996). Energetics and population ecology of Siberian herders. American Journal of Human Biology 8:275-289.

Leonard, W.R, Katzmarzyk, P.T., Stephen, M.A., and A.G.P. Ross (1995). Comparison of the heart-rate monitoring and factorial methods: assessment of energy expenditure in highland and coastal Ecuadoreans. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 61:1146-1152.

Leonard, W.R., DeWalt, K.M., Stansbury, J.P., and M.K. McCaston (1995). Growth differences between children of highland an coastal Ecuador. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98:47-57.

Leonard, W.R., Katzmarzyk, P.T., Comuzzie, A.G., Crawford, M.H., and R.I. Sukernik (1994). Growth and nutritional status of the Evenki reindeer herders of Siberia. American Journal of  Human Biology 6:339-350.

Katzmarzyk, P.T., WR Leonard, MH Crawford and RI Sukernik (1994). Resting metabolic rate and daily energy expenditure among two indigenous Siberian populations. American Journal of Human Biology 6:719-730.

Leonard, W.R., DeWalt, K.M., Uquillas, J.E., and B.R. DeWalt (1994). Diet and nutritional status of cassava producing agriculturalists of coastal Ecuador. Ecology of Food & Nutrition 32:113-127.

Leonard, W.R., DeWalt, K.M., Uquillas, J.E., and B.R. DeWalt (1993). Ecological correlates of dietary consumption and nutritional status in highland and coastal Ecuador. Ecology of  Food & Nutrition 31:67-85.