EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Boulder
M.A. in Anthropology
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
B.Sc. in Evolutionary Anthropology, cum laude
Minors: Statistics, Biological Sciences
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2020 Naumenko DJ, Dykes J, O’Connor GK, Stanley Z, Affara N, Drammeh S, Dunger DB, Faal A, Ong KK, Sosseh F, Prentice AM, Moore SE, Bernstein RM. A novel method for the identification and quantification of growth faltering. American Journal of Physical Anthropology PDF
2020 Maqsood A, Naumenko DJ, Hermanussen M, Scheffler C, Groth D. No correlation between short term weight gain and lower leg length gain in healthy German children. Anthropologischer Anzeiger PDF
2019 Naumenko DJ, Watford M, Utami Atmoko SS, Erb WM, Vogel ER. Evaluating ketosis in primate field studies: validation of urine test strips in wild Bornean orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii. 2019. Folia Primatologica; 91:159-167 PDF
Manuscripts in Submission
2020 Abdo M, Kanyomse E, Alirigia R, Coffey ER, Piedrahita R, Diaz-Sanchez D, Hagar Y, Naumenko DJ, Wiedinmyer C, Hannigan MP, Oduro AR, Dickinson KL. Health impacts of a randomized biomass cookstove intervention in northern Ghana. BMC Public Health (in review)
Conference Proceedings
2020 Naumenko DJ, Affara N, Dunger DB, Ong KK, Prentice AM, Moore SE, Bernstein RM. Short-term wasting, linear faltering, and Type X Collagen. 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Los Angeles, California [in-person presentation cancelled due to COVID-19] PDF
2020 Leigh SR, Naumenko DJ, Affara N, Dunger DB, Ong KK, Prentice AM, Moore SE, Bernstein RM. Allometric correlates of infant mass growth rate variations. 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Los Angeles, California [in-person presentation cancelled due to COVID-19]
2020 Vogel ER, Naumenko DJ, Ballare E, Prasetyo D. Methods for studying energetics and health in wild primates. 28th Congress of the International Primatological Society. Quito, Ecuador. [in-person presentation postponed due to COVID-19]
2019 Vogel ER, Naumenko DJ, Utami Atmoko SS, and Bransford TD. The benefits of negative energy balance? Oxidative stress and inflammation in wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii). 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Cleveland, OH PDF
2019 Naumenko DJ, Dykes J, O’Connor GK, Stanley Z, Affara N, Dunger DB, Moore SE, Ong KK, Prentice AM, and Bernstein RM. Quantifying growth faltering across the first year of life in rural Gambian infants. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Cleveland, OH PDF
2019 Naumenko DJ, Affara N, Dunger DB, Moore SE, Ong KK, Prentice AM, and Bernstein RM. Head circumference growth trajectories from prenatal to postnatal life in rural Gambian infants: influences and implications. 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association. Cleveland, OH PDF
2019 Stanley Z, Dykes J, Naumenko DJ, O’Connor GK, Affara N, Dunger DB, Moore SE, Ong KK, Prentice AM, and Bernstein RM. Influence of sex, season of birth, and gestational age on growth in rural Gambian infants from birth to one year. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Cleveland, OH PDF
2019 Dykes J, Cummings JA, Naumenko DJ, O’Connor GK, Stanley Z, Affara N, Dunger DB, Moore SE, Ong KK, Prentice AM, and Bernstein RM. Quantifying growth pulses across the first year of life in rural Gambian infants. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Cleveland, OH PDF
2019 O’Connor GK, Stanley Z, Dykes J, Naumenko DJ, Affara N, Dunger DB, Moore SE, Ong KK, Prentice AM, and Bernstein RM. Growth deviance and the infancy-childhood transition in rural Gambian infants. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Cleveland, OH PDF
2019 Stanley Z, Dykes J, Naumenko DJ, O’Connor GK, Affara N, Dunger DB, Moore SE, Ong KK, Prentice AM, and Bernstein RM. Predictive accuracy of short-term measurements for longer-term growth rates in rural Gambian infants. 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association Conference. Cleveland, OH PDF
2018 Naumenko DJ, Alavi S, Vogel ER. Nature’s diet: caloric restriction and oxidative stress in wild Bornean Orangutans, Pongo pygmaues wurmbii. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Austin, TX PDF
2018 Bransford TD, Emery Thompson M, Naumenko DJ, van Noordwijk MA, Utami Atmoko SS, Vogel, ER. Variables influencing cortisol levels during motherhood in wild Bornean orangutans. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Austin, TX PDF
2018 Bernstein RM, Naumenko DJ, Washabaugh J, Hinnouho G, Barffour M, Wessels K, Ratsavong K, Kounnavong S, Hess S. Hair cortisol concentrations in infants and children from Lao PDR. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Human Biology Association. Austin, TX
2017 Bransford TD, Naumenko DJ, Moldawer A, Pritchard A, Vogel ER. Does the energetic status of wild orangutan mothers vary with infant age? 86th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. New Orleans, LA PDF
2016 Naumenko DJ, Watford M, Erb WM, Vogel ER. Validation of urine test strips to measure relative ketone body levels in wild Bornean orangutans, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii. 85th Annual Meeting of American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Atlanta, GA PDF
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020 Global Environmental Change Grant ($14,991.50; Rutgers Global, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Building on-the-ground conservation infrastructure for long-term monitoring of anthropogenic air pollution and its impact on forest dynamics and wild Bornean orangutans; PI: Erin R. Vogel, Project Member: Daniel J. Naumenko)
2019 Graduate Student Research Award ($1400; Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder)
2018 Center for Human Evolutionary Studies Senior Research Grant ($8100; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Oxidative stress and tissue wasting in wild Bornean Orangutans; PI: Erin R. Vogel, Co-PI: Daniel J. Naumenko)
2018 Biological Anthropology Graduate Students Conference Travel Award ($500; University of Colorado, Boulder)
2017 New Graduate Funding ($305; University of Colorado, Boulder)
2017 Center for Human Evolutionary Studies Senior Research Grant ($6786; Rutgers, the State University of NJ; Nutritional immunology, oxidative stress, and energetics in wild Bornean Orangutans; PI: Erin R. Vogel, Co-PI: Daniel J. Naumenko)
2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ($138,000; NSF)
2016 Aresty Center Research Fellowship ($2000; Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2016 Bigel Endowment Grant ($1250; Dept of Anthropology, Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2016 Center for Human Evolutionary Studies Barry C. Lembersky Undergraduate Research Grant ($500; Linking dietary ecology and oxidative stress in wild Bornean Orangutans)
2016 Jerome and Lorraine Aresty Center Undergraduate Research Scholarship ($400; Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2016 Bigel Endowment Grant ($500; Dept. of Anthropology, Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2015 Bigel Endowment Grant ($1100; Dept. of Anthropology, Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2019 Haskell-Haughlin Award ($2667, Dept. of Anthropology; University of Colorado, Boulder)
2017 Departmental Honors – Highest (Dept. of Anthropology, Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2017 Certificate of Evolutionary Medicine (Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2017 Henry Rutgers Scholar Award (Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
2017 Rutgers Honors Symposium Award (Dept. of Anthropology; Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Colorado, Boulder
Introduction to Physical Anthropology (Fall 2017)
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Quantitative Methods in Evolutionary Anthropology (Fall 2016)
Molecular Ecology (Spring 2017)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Institute of Behavioral Science, Population Program
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Human Biology Association
Sigma Xi
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Auxological Society (Deutsche Gesselschaft für Auxologie)