Christine Shearer Wilson, 86; Scholar Blended Disparate Fields
Christine Shearer Wilson, 86, a scholar influential in the development of nutritional anthropology, died May 31 of a stroke in Annapolis, Md.
In the 1970s, Wilson joined a group of scholars in efforts to connect two dissimilar fields: the science of nutrition and the social science of anthropology.
“She shaped the discipline with her own research publications and presentations,” said Leslie Sue Lieberman, director of the Women’s Research Center at the University of Central Florida.
A native of Orleans, Mass., Wilson graduated from Brown University with a degree in biology.
She earned her doctorate in nutrition from UC Berkeley.
She taught nutritional anthropology, epidemiology and international health at a number of institutions, including UC San Francisco and San Francisco State University.
She was also associated for several years with the Food Research Institute at Stanford University.
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