Alexandra Brewis Slade, a medical anthropologist, was named director of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Dr. Brewis Slade joined the faculty at Arizona State in 2006. She previously taught at the University of Georgia. She is the author of the 2011 book, Obesity: Cultural and Biocultural Perspectives (Rutgers University Press).
Professor Brewis Slade holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology, all from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. After earning her Ph.D. she held an Andrew W. Mellon Post Doctoral Fellowship in demography at Brown University.