Ruth Mace
Ruth Mace | |
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Nationality | British |
Title | Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology |
Partner | Mark Pagel |
Children | Two |
Academic background | |
Education | South Hampstead High School Westminster School |
Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
Thesis | "The dawn chorus: Behavioural organisation in the great tit (Parus major)" (1987) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Evolutionary anthropology Phylogenetic approaches |
Institutions | Imperial College London University of East Anglia University College London |
Ruth Mace, FBA (born 9 October 1961) is a British anthropologist, biologist, and academic. She specialises in the evolutionary ecology of human demography and life history[disambiguation needed], and phylogenetic approaches to culture and language evolution. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London.[1][2]
Early life and education
Mace was born on 9 October 1961 in London, England to David Mace and Angela Mace. She was educated at South Hampstead High School, an all-girls independent school in South Hampstead, London, and at Westminster School, an independent school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey that has a mixed-sex sixth form. She studied zoology at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1987.[1] Her doctoral thesis was titled "The dawn chorus: Behavioural organisation in the great tit (Parus major)".[3]
Academic career
Having completed her doctorate, Mace began her academic career as a research fellow at Imperial College London; she held a NERC Postdoctoral Fellowship.[4] Then, from 1989 to 1991, she was a lecturer in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia.[1][4]
In 1991, Mace moved to the Department of Anthropology of University College London: she was a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Lecturer from 1991 to 1999, and Reader in Human Evolutionary Ecology from 1999 to 2004.[4] In 2004, she was appointed Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology.[1] From 2005 to 2010, she was also Editor-in-Chief of Evolution and Human Behavior.[1] Since 2010, she has served as Head of Biological Anthropology at University College London.[4]
Personal life
Mace's partner is Mark Pagel, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Reading. Together they have two sons.[1]
Honours
In 2003, Mace gave the Curl Lecture, a prize lectureship of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[5] In 2008, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[6]
Selected works
- Milner-Gulland, E. J.; Mace, Ruth (1998). Conservation of Biological Resources: with case studies contributed by other authors. Oxford: Blackwell Science. ISBN 978-0865427389.
- Mace, Ruth; Holden, Clare J.; Shennan, Stephen, eds. (2005). The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach. London: UCL Press. ISBN 978-1844720996.
- Gillian, Bentley; Mace, Ruth, eds. (2009). Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1845451066.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "MACE, Prof. Ruth". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Prof Ruth Mace". AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity. University College London. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ Mace, R. H. (1987). "The dawn chorus: Behavioural organisation in the great tit (Parus major)". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library Board. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Prof. Ruth Helen Mace". AcademiaNet. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Curl Lectureship Prior Recipients". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ "Professor Ruth Mace". britac.ac.uk. The British Academy. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- Articles with links needing disambiguation from January 2017
- 1961 births
- Living people
- British anthropologists
- British biologists
- Human evolution theorists
- Academics of University College London
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Evolutionary biologists
- People educated at South Hampstead High School
- People educated at Westminster School
- Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
- Physical anthropologists
- Academics of Imperial College London
- Academics of the University of East Anglia