great immigrants
great immigrants logo

Sarah Mathew

Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

Sarah  Mathew

Sarah Mathew is an assistant professor at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at the University of Arizona at Tempe. She investigates why humans, unlike other animals, cooperate in groups comprising large numbers of genetically unrelated individuals, and how the evolution of this unique form of cooperation is tied to the origins of moral sentiments, cultural norms, and warfare. To address these issues, she combines formal modeling of the evolution of cooperation with fieldwork to test theories of how cooperation is sustained.

Publications:

Project Title: Is the cultural boundary also the moral boundary?

In the News:

More 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
  • None

    David E. Bloom

    Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard University

  • None

    Keir A. Lieber

    Director of the Center for Security Studies and Security Studies Program (SSP), Georgetown University

  • None

    Gregory T. Cushman

    Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas

  • None

    Caleb Everett

    Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Miami

Get the Carnegie Reporter and our best articles delivered to your inbox.