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Publications (PDFs!)
van Doren, T. P., Steele, L.-E., Tinker-Fortel, E., & Sattenspiel, L. (2025). Body size and risk of death during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Alaska. American Journal of Human Biology, 37(10), e70151. doi:10.1002/ajhb.70151
van Doren, T. P. (2025). Post-pandemic inequalities: Evolutionary anthropological frameworks for long-term impacts of the 1918 influenza pandemic. Evolutionary Anthropology, 34(3), e70010. doi:10.1002/evan.70010
van Doren, T. P. (2025). Past pandemics and social inequality. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. Mark Aldenderfer. New York: Oxford University Press, in press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.675
van Doren, T. P., Brown, R. A., Izenberg, M., Simmons, C., Heintz, R., & Busch, L. (2024). Risk perception and reappraisal during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Alaska: Self-identified determinants of risk and protective behaviors. Social Science & Medicine, accepted September 2024. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117378
van Doren, T. P., Brown, R. A., Chi, G., Cochran, P., Cueva, K., Eichelberger, L., Fried, R., Fritz, S., Hahn, M. B., Heintz, R., Holen, D., Johnson, N., Lavoie, J., Maxwell, E., McNair, L., Nicewonger, T., Orttung, R. W., Petrov, A. N., & Powell, J. E. (2024). Beyond COVID: Towards a transdisciplinary synthesis for understanding responses and developing pandemic preparedness in Alaska. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 38(1). doi:10.1080/22423982.2024.2404273
van Doren, T. P. (2024) Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion, by Richard Conniff. The Quarterly Review of Biology, accepted August 2024. doi:10.1086/733271
van Doren, T. P. (2024). Sex-based tuberculosis mortality in Newfoundland, 1900-1949: Implications for populations in transition. American Journal of Human Biology, 36(5). doi:10.1002/ajhb.24033
* Editor’s choice article
Sattenspiel, L., van Doren, T. P., & Dimka, J. (2024). The impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on the demography of Newfoundland and Labrador in the first half of the 20th century. Newfoundland & Labrador Studies, 38(1), 1-46.
* Special issue: Disasters, Pandemics and Crises in Newfoundland & Labrador: Past, Present & Future
van Doren, T. P., Brown, A., Izenberg, M., Heintz, R., Simmons, C., & Paddock, R. (2023). Variable trust in public health messaging during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Alaska. Frontiers in Communication (Health Communications), 8, 1123297. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2023.1123297
van Doren, T. P., Brown, R. A., & Heintz, R. (2023). Biocultural perspectives of pandemics and post-pandemic population health in Alaska. Arctic Yearbook. tinyurl.com/mr4msnaa
* Special issue: Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned
van Doren, T. P., & Brown, R. A. (2023). Consequences of delayed care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Emerging research and new lines of inquiry for human biologists and anthropologists. American Journal of Human Biology, 35(7), e23886. doi:10.1002/ajhb.23886
van Doren, T. P., Zajdman, D., Brown, R. A., Gandhi, P., Heintz, R., Busch, L., Simmons, C., & Paddock, R. (2023). Risk perception, adaptation, and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in southeast Alaska Natives. Social Science & Medicine, 317, 115609. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115609
van Doren, T. P., & Kelmelis, S. (2022). Contextualizing pandemics: Survivorship before, during, and after the 1918 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(1), 70-84. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24678
* Special issue: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Biocultural Perspectives on Infectious Disease and Pandemics
van Doren, T. P. (2022). Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its co-morbidities through history. Evolutionary Anthropology, 32(2), 100-117. doi:10.1002/evan.21970
Dimka, J., van Doren, T. P., & Battles, H. T. (2022). Pandemics, past and present: The role of biological anthropology in interdisciplinary pandemic studies. Yearbook of Biological Anthropology, 178(S74), 256-291. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24517
Alves, D,. Mamelund, S.-E., Dimka, J., Simonsen, L., Mølbak Ingholt, M., Ørskov, S., Sattenspiel, L., Tripp, L., Noymer, A., Chowell-Puente, G., Dahal, S., van Doren, T. P., Wissler, A., Heffernan, C., Short, K., Battles, H., & Baker, M. (2022). Indigenous peoples and pandemics. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 50(6), 1-6. doi:10.1177/14034948221087095
Park, S. Y., van Doren, T. P., Frederick, J., Butler, S. A., Chen, Z. J., & Carroll, L. (2022). Deconstructing “normal” for a more equitable post-COVID world. American Journal of Public Health, 112(4), 533. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2022.306743
van Doren, T. P., & Sattenspiel, L. (2021). The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early 20th century Newfoundland: Investigating historical and social explanations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 176(2), 179-191. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24332
van Doren, T. P. (2021). The 1918 influenza pandemic has lessons for COVID-19: An anthropology student perspective. American Journal of Public Health, 111(1), 79-80. doi:10.2105/ajph.2020.306021
van Doren, T. P. (2021). Epidemics and the Modern World, Mitchell L. Hammond. University of Toronto Press. World Medical & Health Policy, 14(2), 445-447. doi:10.1002/wmh3.477
Paskoff, T., & Sattenspiel, L. (2019). Sex- and age-based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland. American Journal of Human Biology, 31(1), e23198. doi:10.1002/ajhb.23198
Taylor van Doren, PhD 