Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department

u0955236@utah.edu

Professional Membership

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Member, Society for Applied Anthropology, 09/2016
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Member, Santa Fe Institute: Working Group on Inequality, 01/2014 GLOBAL

Publications

• BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Vernon, KB, Codding, BF, Brewer, S & Macfarlan, SJ (2024). Market integration mediates human-environment interactions among traditional ranchers in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Sustainability Science., 02/25/2024 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE: Page, AE, Macfarlan, SJ & Sear, R (2023). Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Vol. 121(9), e2318181121., 12/27/2023 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ, Schacht, R, McCool, WC, Davis, CA, Yerman, AD, Higuera Landeros, FJ & Amador Amador, M (2023). Decision-making under climate shocks and economic insecurity: Ranching in rural Baja California Sur, Mexico. Evolution and Human Behavior. Vol. 44(5), 515-523., 09/01/2023 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | ENERGY | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Magargal, K, Yellowman, J, Chee, S, Wabel, M, Macfarlan, SJ & Codding, BF (2023). Firewood and energy sovereignty on Navajo Nation. Human Ecology. Vol. 51, 497-511., 06/24/2023
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Lerback J, Bowen B, Macfarlan SJ, Schniter E & Garcia JJ (2022). Development of a graphical resilience framework to understand a coupled human-natural system in a remote arid highland of Baja California Sur. Sustainability Science. Vol. 17, 1059–1076., 03/04/2022 MEXICO
• WATER: Lerback J, Bowen B, Humphrey CE, Fernandez DP, Bernau JA, Macfarlan SJ, Schniter E & Garcia JJ (2022). Geochemistry and provenance of springs in a Baja California Sur mountain catchment. Groundwater. Vol. 60, 295-308., 01/18/2022 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Schniter E, Macfarlan SJ, Garcia JJ, Ruiz-Campos G, Guevara-Beltran D, Bowen BB & Lerback JC (2021). Age appropriate wisdom? Ethnobiological knowledge ontogeny in Pastoralist Mexico. Human Nature. Vol. 32, 48-83., 04/23/2021 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan, S.J., Schacht R, Schniter E, Garcia JJ, Guevara Beltran D & Lerback J (2020). The role of dispersal and school attendance on reproductive dynamics in small, dispersed populations: Choyeros of Baja California Sur, Mexico. PLOS One. Vol. 15, e0239523., 10/2020 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Post ER, Macfarlan SJ. 2020. Tracking cross-cultural gender bias in reputations. Cross Cultural Research. 54:1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1069397120910429, 03/2020 GLOBAL
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan SJ, Garcia JJ, Schniter E, Guevara Beltran D, Amador Bibo JG, Ruiz-Campos G. 2019. Geographic Distribution: Elgaria velazquezi (Central Baja California Alligator Lizard). Herpetological Review 50(1):10, 01/2019 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Macfarlan SJ, Remiker M. 2018. Cultural multi-level selection and biological market theory explains the coupled dynamics of labor exchange cooperation and social support. Sustainability Science 13(1):59-70 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0481-x, 01/2018 DOMINICA

Presentations

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ (2024). People of the Forgotten Peninsula: Cultural & Ecological Explorations of Baja California Sur. Conserva Loreto and Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Loreto, BCS, Mexico., 02/09/2024 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ. 2023. Human-Ecosystem Dynamics on the Forgotten Peninsula: A Historical, Demographic, and Ethnographic Exploration of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Anthropology Lecture Series. Oregon State University. Corvallis, OR., 09/29/2023 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ. 2022. Human-Ecosystem Dynamics on the Forgotten Peninsula: A Historical, Demographic, and Ethnographic Exploration of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Todos Santos Speaker Series. Todos Santos, BCS, Mexico., 06/03/2022 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ. 2022. Human-Ecosystem Dynamics on the Forgotten Peninsula: A Historical, Demographic, and Ethnographic Exploration of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Evolution of Social Complexity Colloquium. Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ., 03/23/2022 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ & Davis C. 2022. Birth Seasonality, Neonate Health, and Climate Change. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT., 03/23/2022 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan, SJ. 2022. Centering Traditional Knowledge: Research Collaborations with Indigenous Communities and Other Local Partners. CSBS Social Solutions Series. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT., 02/10/2022 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | BUILT ENVIRONMENT & COMMUNITIES | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | WATER | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, SJ. 2022. Human-Ecosystem Dynamics on the Forgotten Peninsula: A Historical, Demographic, and Ethnographic Exploration of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Global Change & Sustainability Center Seminar. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. , 02/01/2022 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY: Macfarlan, SJ & Davis C. 2021. The North American Monsoon, Seasonal Energy Flux, and Birth Seasonality in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Utah Demography Summit. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT., 11/12/2021 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE: Macfarlan, SJ. 2021. Historical and evolutionary demography of the Forgotten Peninsula: Adaptive responses to arid ecosystems and small populations on the Baja California frontier. Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series. University College London. London., 01/2021 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan SJ. 2019. The role of dispersal and education on reproductive dynamics in small populations. Department of Anthropology Speaker Series. Pennsylvania State University. Happy valley, PA., 10/2019 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan, SJ. 2019. Marriage Dynamics in Old Lower California: Ecological Constraints, Reproductive Value, and Changing Gender Norms. Utah Demography Summit. Brigham Young University: Provo, UT., 10/2019 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan, S.J. 2019. Managing Life in the Desert: Choyero Cultural Dynamics & Sustainability Challenges in BCS, Mexico. IFREE/ESI Lecture Series. Chapman University. Orange, CA. , 04/2019 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Macfarlan, S.J., J.J. Garcia, E. Schniter, C. Hoagstrom. 2018. Cultural Values and Knowledge Associated with the Aridland Springs of the Sierra de La Giganta of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. , 04/2018 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Macfarlan, S.J. 2017. Labor exchange and social support in a smallholder economy: Integrating behavioral ecology and political ecology theory. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM., 04/13/2017 DOMINICA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan, S.J. 2017. Oasiana-Ranchero Culture and Aridland Spring Water Management in the Sierra de La Giganta, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Society for Applied Anthropology: Santa Fe, NM., 03/30/2017 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Post, E., Sime, A., Macfarlan, S. 2017. Reputation Domains Employed Cross-Culturally. Society for Cross-Cultural Research Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA., 03/02/2017 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Macfarlan, S.J. 2017. Los Californios & Aridland Spring Sustainability. Global Climate and Sustainability Center Justice Mixer. Salt Lake City, UT., 03/01/2017 MEXICO

Teaching

• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Mining Impacts: Andean Nation Development of Environmental/Economic Solutions, 05/2015-11/2015 ECUADOR PERU
• NATURE & CULTURE: Human Ecology of Arid Environments, 03/2015-04/2015

Internal Service

• NATURE & CULTURE: Bonderman Field Station at Rio Mesa Advisory Committee, 12/2016-06/2022
• NATURE & CULTURE: Sustainability Education Advisory Committee, 09/2016
• NATURE & CULTURE: Sustainability Action Plan Research Working Group., 01/2016-05/2016
• NATURE & CULTURE: Environmental and Sustainability Studies Executive Committee, 08/2015-05/2016

External Service

• NATURE & CULTURE: Scientific Advisory Board Museo del Vaquero BCS, Mexco , 05/2020 MEXICO

Awards

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE: Sustainability Teaching Professorship, University of Utah, 05/31/2023
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Award for Advancing Equity and Connecting Communities , College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Utah, 04/01/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Sustainability Integration Leadership Award , University of Utah, 03/2020 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: CSBS Jr. Faculty Research Leave, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences - University of Utah, 03/03/2017 MEXICO

Grants

• NATURE & CULTURE: The Effect of Reproductive Timing and Pace on Sex-Based Mortality Risks . PI: Shane Macfarlan, 12/2020-11/2022 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | FOOD SYSTEMS: Resilience and Justice in the Local Food System: Understanding Mutual Aid in the Time of COVID-19. PI: Adrienne Cachelin. Co-PI(s): Shane Macfarlan, 06/2020-05/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Uncovering the Framework for Spring Sustainability in Complex Socio-hydrological Systems in the Remote Arid Highland of Baja California Sur, Mexico. PI: Brenda Bowen. Co-PI(s): Shane Macfarlan, 05/2019-05/2020 MEXICO
• NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: CNH-L: Dynamic Impacts of Environmental Change and Biomass Harvesting on Woodland Ecosystems and Traditional Livelihoods. PI: Brian Codding. Co-PI(s): Ramesh Shrestha (Co-Principal Investigator) Philip Dennison (Co-Principal Investigator) William Anderegg (Co-Principal Investigator) Courtenay Strong (Co-Principal Investigator), 09/01/2017-02/28/2022
• NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE: Hydrologic Systems, Human Consumption, & Aridland Spring Sustainability: A Cross-Site Comparison. PI: Shane J. Macfarlan. Co-PI(s): Brenda Bowen, 05/24/2017-05/24/2018 MEXICO
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER: Oasiana-Ranchero Culture & Aridland Spring Sustainability in Baja California Sur, Mexico. PI: Shane J Macfarlan, 05/2016-06/2016 MEXICO