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AWARDS

  • Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award (2021)

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013)

  • Division of Student Affairs Excellence in Education Award (2001)

  • Alumnae Anniversary Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Education of Women at Mizzou (1998)

  • Elected to Sigma Xi, The Society for Scientific Research (1989)

  • Elected to Kappa Mu Epsilon, Mathematics Honor Society (1979)


BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (with contributions from Alun Lloyd) (2009) The Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases: Models and Applications. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 298 pages.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Alun Lloyd, with contributions from Jianguo Sun, Steven Tanner, and Benjamin Bolker (2003) Modeling the Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases. Report prepared for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Washington, DC. 243 pages.


JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

    • Dahal, Sushma, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Ruiyan Luo, Lisa Sattenspiel, Shannon Self-Brown, and Gerardo Chowell (2022) Investigating COVID-19 transmission and mortality differences among Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Mexico. International Journal of Infectious Diseases (in press). https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(22)00447-7/fulltext

    • Alves, Daniele Evelin, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, Jessica Dimka, Lone Simonson, Mathias Mølbak, Søren Ørskov, Lisa Sattenspiel, Lianne Tripp, Andrew Noymer, Gerardo Chowell-Puente, Sushama Dahal, Taylor van Doren, Amanda Wissler, Courtney Heffernan, Katherine Kedzierska, Kirsty Renfree Short, Heather Battles, and Michael Baker. (2022) Indigenous peoples and pandemics. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 1-6. doi:10.1177/14034948221087095.

    • Buckee, Caroline, Abdisalan Noor, and Lisa Sattenspiel (2021) Modeling social aspects of infectious disease transmission. Nature 595:205-213. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03694-x

    • van Doren, Taylor P and Lisa Sattenspiel (2021) The 1918 influenza pandemic did not accelerate tuberculosis mortality decline in early-twentieth century Newfoundland: investigating historical and social explanations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24332

    • Dimka, Jessica and Lisa Sattenspiel (2021) “We didn’t get much schooling because we were fishing all the time”: Potential impacts of irregular school attendance on the spread of epidemics. American Journal of Human Biology https://doi.org10.1002/ajhb.23578.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa, Dimka, Jessica, and Carolyn Orbann (2019) Using cultural, historical, and epidemiological data to inform, calibrate, and verify model structures in agent-based simulations. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 16(4):3071-3093. DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2019152

    • Paskoff, Taylor and Lisa Sattenspiel (2018) 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

    • Schmidt, Dana M and Lisa Sattenspiel (2017) Timing of the second epidemiological transition in Newfoundland. American Journal of Human Biology 29(5):e22997. doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.e22997

    • Orbann, Carolyn, Lisa Sattenspiel, Jessica Dimka, and Erin Miller (2016) Defining epidemics in computer simulation models: how do definitions influence conclusions? Epidemics 19:24-32. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2016.12.001

    • Chowell, Gerardo, Lisa Sattenspiel, Shweta Bansal, Cécile Viboud (2016) Early sub-exponential epidemic growth: Simple models, nonlinear incidence rates, and additional mechanisms: Reply to comments on “Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: a review.” Physics of Life Reviews 18:114-117. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2016.08.016

    • Chowell, Gerardo, Lisa Sattenspiel, Shweta Bansal, Cécile Viboud (2016) Mathematical models to characterize early epidemic growth: a review. Physics of Life Reviews 18:66-97. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2016.07.005

    • Swedlund, Alan C, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, Richard S Meindl, and George J Gumerman III (2016) Explorations in paleodemography: an overview of the Artificial Long House Valley agent-based modeling project, with new observations on demographic estimation. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology, Molly K Zuckerman and Debra Martin (eds.), New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 403-426.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa, Erin Miller, Jessica Dimka, Carolyn Orbann, and Amy Warren (2016) Epidemic models with and without mortality: when does it matter? In Mathematical and Statistical Modeling for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Gerardo Chowell and James M Hyman (eds.), Switzerland: Springer International, pp. 313-327. dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40413_2.

    • Walker, Robert S, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Kim R Hill (2015) Mortality from contact-related epidemics among indigenous populations in Greater Amazonia. Scientific Reports 5:14032. DOI:10.1038/srep14032.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2015) Coevolution of humans and pathogens. In Basics in Human Evolution, Michael Muehlenbein (ed.), Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 415-426.

    • Swedlund, Alan, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, and George Gumerman (2015) Modelling archaeology: 20 years after Artificial Anasazi. In Agent-based Modeling and Archaeology, Gabriel Wurzer, Kerstin Kowarik, and Hans Reschreiter (eds.), Berlin: Springer, pp. 37-50.

    • Dimka, Jessica, Carolyn Orbann, and Lisa Sattenspiel (2014) Applications of agent-based modeling techniques to studies of historical epidemics: the 1918 flu in Newfoundland and Labrador. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, New Series 25(2):265-296.

    • Orbann, Carolyn, Lisa Sattenspiel, Jessica Dimka, and Erin Miller (2014) Agent-based modeling and the second epidemiological transition. In Modern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition, Molly K Zuckerman (ed.), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 105-122.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Rebecca S Lander (2014) The timing of the second epidemiological transition in small US towns and cities: evidence from local cemeteries. In Modern Environments and Human Health: Revisiting the Second Epidemiologic Transition, Molly K Zuckerman (ed.), Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 163-177.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Svenn-Erik Mamelund (2013) Co-circulating epidemics, chronic health problems, and social conditions in early 20th century Labrador and Alaska. Annals of Anthropological Practice 36(2):402-421.

    • Mamelund, Svenn-Erik, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Jessica Dimka (2013) Influenza associated mortality during the 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Alaska and Labrador: a comparison. Social Science History 37(2):177-229.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2012) Epidemiology and epidemiological modeling. In Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology, Alan Hastings and Louis J Gross (eds.), Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 263-270.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Karen Slonim (2012) The epidemiology of human disease. In Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, 2nd edition, Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, and Dennis O'Rourke (eds.), New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 387-457.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2011) Regional patterns of mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic in Newfoundland. Vaccine 29S:B33-B37.

    • O’Neil, Caroline A and Lisa Sattenspiel (2010) Agent-based modeling of the spread of the 1918-1919 Spanish flu in three Canadian fur trading communities. American Journal of Human Biology 22:757-767.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2010) What can the historic record tell us about modern infectious disease epidemics? Oberwolfach Reports 48:2688-2689.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (2010) Emerging themes in anthropology and epidemiology: geographic spread, evolving pathogens, and syndemics. In A Companion to Physical Anthropology, Clark S Larsen (ed.), Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 167-178.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Melissa Stoops (2010) Gleaning signals about the past from cemetery data. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142:7-21.

    • Lloyd, Alun L and Lisa Sattenspiel (2009) Spatiotemporal dynamics of measles: Synchrony and persistence in a disease metapopulation. In Spatial Ecology, Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, and Shigui Ruan (eds.), Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp. 251-272.

    • Carpenter, Connie and Lisa Sattenspiel (2009) The design and use of an agent-based model to simulate the 1918 influenza epidemic at Norway House, Manitoba. American Journal of Human Biology 21(3):290-300.

    • Tanner, Matthew W, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Lewis Ntaimo (2008) Finding optimal vaccination strategies under uncertainty using stochastic programming. Mathematical Biosciences 215(2):144-151.

    • Palmer, Craig T, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Chris Cassidy (2007) Boats, trains, and immunity: the spread of the Spanish influenza on the island of Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 22(2):473-504.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2007) Modeling the geographic spread of infectious diseases using population- and individual-based approaches. In BIOMAT 2006 — International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Rubem P Mondaini and Rui Dilão (eds.), World Scientific Publishing, pp. 103-122.

    • Herring, D Ann and Lisa Sattenspiel (2007) Social context, syndemics, and infectious diseases in northern Aboriginal populations. American Journal of Human Biology 19:190-202.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Connie Carpenter (2004) Using an individual-based model to study the spread of infectious diseases among Canadian fur-trapping populations. Oberwolfach Reports 1(4):2636-2637.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2004) The evolution, transmission, and geographic spread of infectious diseases in human populations: questions and models. In The Changing Face of Human Disease, Nicholas Mascie-Taylor, Jean Peters, and Stephen T McGarvey (eds.), Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 40-63.

    • Herring, D Ann and Lisa Sattenspiel (2003) Death in winter: the Spanish flu in the Canadian Subarctic. In The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19, Howard Phillips and David Killingray (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 156-172.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2003) Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach. In Human Biology in the Archives, D Ann Herring and Alan Swedlund (eds.), Cambridge: University Press, pp. 234-265.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (2003) Simulating the effect of quarantine on the spread of the 1918-19 flu in central Canada. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 65(1): 1-26.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (2002) Human mobility and the spread of the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic in the Norway House Region of Manitoba. In Ancient Travellers Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Claire Alume, Jennifer Kahn, Christine Cluney and Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown (ed.), Calgary, Alberta: The Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, pp. 245-258.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2000) Tropical environments, human activities, and the transmission of infectious diseases. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 43:3-31.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa, Anne Mobarry, and D Ann Herring (2000) Modeling the influence of settlement structure on the spread of influenza among communities. American Journal of Human Biology 12(6):736-748.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (2000) The epidemiology of human disease. In Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, Sara Stinson, Barry Bogin, Rebecca Huss-Ashmore, and Dennis O'Rourke (eds.), New York: Wiley-Liss, pp. 225-271.

    • Schoeninger, Margaret J, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Mark R Schurr (2000) Transitions at Moundville: a question of collapse. In Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture, PM Lambert (ed.), University of Alabama Press, pp. 63-77.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and D Ann Herring (1998) Structured epidemic models and the spread of influenza in the Norway House District of Manitoba, Canada. Human Biology 70:91-115.

    • Vradenburg, Joseph A, Robert A Benfer, and Lisa Sattenspiel (1997) Evaluating archaeological hypotheses of population growth and decline on the central coast of Peru. In Integrating Archaeological Demography: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population, RR Paine (ed.), Center for Archaeological Investigations Occasional Paper No. 24, pp. 150-172.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1996) Spatial heterogeneity and the spread of infectious diseases. In Models for Infectious Human Diseases: Their Structure and Relation to Data, V Isham and G Medley (eds.), Cambridge, England: University Press, pp. 286-289.

    • Bolker, BM, M Altmann, M Aubert, F Ball, ND Barlow, RG Bowers, AP Dobson, JS Elkington, GP Garnett, CA Gilligan, MP Hassell, V Isham, JA Jacquez, A Kleczkowski, SA Levin, RM May, JAJ Metz, D Mollison, M Morris, LA Real, L Sattenspiel, J Swinton, P White, and BG Williams (1995) Group report: spatial dynamics of infectious diseases in natural populations. In Ecology of Infectious Diseases in Natural Populations, BT Grenfell and AP Dobson (eds.), Cambridge, England: University Press, pp. 399-420.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Klaus Dietz (1995) A structured epidemic model incorporating geographic mobility among regions. Mathematical Biosciences 128:71-91.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) Comment on ‘Epidemics: models and data,’ by Denis Mollison, Valerie Isham, and Bryan Grenfell. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 157(1):136-137.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) Population contact among different regions and disease spread. In Mathematical Population Dynamics: Analysis of Heterogeneity, Volume One: Theory of Epidemics, O Arino, D Axelrod, M Kimmel, and M Langlais (eds.), Winnipeg, Canada: Wuerz Publishing Ltd, pp. 171-184.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1994) How does a disease get from here to there? The geographic spread of AIDS and other diseases. In Modeling the AIDS Epidemic, EH Kaplan and ML Brandeau (eds.), New York: Raven Press, pp. 501-514.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Christopher Powell (1993) Geographic spread of measles on the island of Dominica, West Indies. Human Biology 65:107-129.

    • Flinn, Mark and Lisa Sattenspiel (1990) Comment on ‘Explaining biased sex ratios in human populations: A critique of recent studies,’ by Daniela F Sieff. Current Anthropology 31:37-38.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1990) Modeling the spread of infectious disease in human populations. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 33:245-276.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Carlos Castillo-Chavez (1990) Environmental context, social interactions, and the spread of HIV. American Journal of Human Biology 2:397-417.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa, James Koopman, Carl Simon, and John A Jacquez (1990) The effects of population subdivision on the spread of the HIV infection. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 82:421-429.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1989) The structure and context of social interactions and the spread of HIV. In Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to AIDS Epidemiology, C Castillo-Chavez (ed.), Lecture Notes in Biomathematics 83. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 242-259.

    • Koopman, James, Carl Simon, John Jacquez, Jill Joseph, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Taesung Park (1988) Sexual partner selectiveness effects on homosexual HIV transmission dynamics. Journal of AIDS 1:486-504.

    • Jacquez, John A, Carl P Simon, James Koopman, Lisa Sattenspiel, and Timothy Perry (1988) Modeling and the analysis of HIV transmission: the effect of contact patterns. Mathematical Biosciences 92:119-199.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Carl P Simon (1988) The spread and persistence of infectious diseases in structured populations. Mathematical Biosciences 90:341-366. (Also published in Nonlinearity in Biology and Medicine, Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Edited by AS Perelson, B Goldstein, M Dembo, and JA Jacquez, pp. 341-366.)

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1988) The spread and maintenance of a disease in a structured population. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 77:497-504.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1987) Epidemics in non-randomly mixing populations: a simulation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 73:251-266.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1987) Population structure and the spread of disease. Human Biology 59:411-438.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1985) Population subdivision and the spread of disease: Application to hepatitis A in day care centers. H'aliksai: UNM Contributions to Anthropology 4:50-67.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa (1984) Patterns in accidents and deaths by drowning in the Åland Islands 1749-1850. H'aliksai: UNM Contributions to Anthropology 3:90-104.

    • Sattenspiel, Lisa and Henry Harpending (1983) Stable populations and skeletal age. American Antiquity 48:489-497.



PUBLISHED COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELS



THESES AND DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED


PhD Dissertations:

  • Taylor P van Doren — ‘Social inequalities and mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2022

  • Jessica D Fields — ‘Birth order and gender: differential parental investment in medieval England and France in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2020 (Co-director with Mary Shenk)

  • Erin Lee Miller — ‘Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Åland Archipelago,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2018

  • Amy Leigh Warren — ‘Simulating prehistoric population dynamics and adaptive behavioral responses to the environment in Long House Valley and Black Mesa, Arizona,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2018

  • Rebecca Shattuck Lander — ‘To die so far from Dixie: Modeling epidemic dysentery in a Civil War prison camp,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2015

  • Jessica Dimka — ‘Modeling the spread of the 1918 influenza pandemic in a Newfoundland community,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2015

  • Carolyn Orbann — ‘Traditional kinship structures and European-derived diseases at Mission San Diego, California: A study of the 1805-1806 measles epidemic,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2014

  • Karen Slonim — ‘ “Send only your serious cases.” Delivering flu to Toronto: An anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2010

  • Joseph Parish — ‘An analysis of the 1875-1877 scarlet fever epidemic of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2004

  • Helen Cho — ‘Age-associated bone loss in an Imperial Roman population: an histological analysis of inter-skeletal and intra-skeletal variability,’ Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2002 (Co-director with Sam Stout)

MA Theses and Research Papers:

  • Hailey Ramirez — ‘Assessing the impact of the 1918/1919 influenza in Missouri counties heavily involved in lead-zinc mining,’ MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2022

  • Megan Murray — ‘Modeling social connectivity and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu through Inupiat and Yup’ik communities of Western Alaska, MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2019

  • Taylor Paskoff — ‘Sex- and age-based differences in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic on the island of Newfoundland’, MA Article Manuscript, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2017

  • Dana Schmidt — ‘Timing of the second epidemiological transition in Newfoundland’, Master’s Article Manuscript, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2016

  • Ariel Dombroski — ‘Treatment and transmission factors affecting tuberculosis incidence in the emerging economies of the post-Soviet Baltic Republics, 1989-2009,’ MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2011

  • Caroline Ahillen — ‘Agent-based modeling of the spread of the 1918-1919 Spanish flu in three Canadian fur trading communities,’ MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2006

  • Connie Carpenter — ‘Agent-based modeling of seasonal population movement and the spread of the 1918-1919 flu: the effect on a small community,’ MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2004

  • Emily Williams — ‘Whooping cough among Western Cree and Ojibwa fur-trading communities in subarctic Canada: a mathematical modeling approach,’ MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 2004

  • Michele Poe — ‘Mathematical Models for Tuberculosis in the 1990s,’ MA Research Paper, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1996

  • Caitlin Hall — ‘Attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of childhood leukemia,’ MA Research Paper, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1995

  • Lori Houghton —’Motivations of walkers in Columbia, Missouri,’ MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1995

  • Terri Hutchison — ‘Changing policies and attitudes about economic growth and development in Columbia,’ MA Research Paper, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, 1993