Delaney Glass
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Delaney Glass is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and is a mixed-methods, biocultural anthropologist and human biologist working primarily with Arab communities in North America and Jordan. She examines biocultural drivers and population health consequences of early life adversity and social inequalities on child and adolescent linear growth/body size, pubertal development, mental health and wellbeing.
Glass uses frameworks and methods from medical anthropology, evolutionary biology and qualitative health research. Some co-authored recent publications include "Coming of Age in War: Early Life Adversity, Age at Menarche, and Mental Health” (Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2024), "Longitudinal analysis of cortisol changes during pubertal development in indigenous Qom girls" (American Journal of Human Biology, 2024) and "Advancing an individual-community health nexus: Survey, visual, and narrative meanings of mental and physical health for Arab emerging adults" (SSM-Mental Health, 2023).
Glass completed her PhD in biological anthropology and her Master of Public Health (Epidemiology, Maternal and Child Health) at the University of Washington in Seattle.