Meredith F. Small holds a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from the University of California, Davis, an M.A. in Biological Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an A.B. in anthropology from San Diego State University. She is Professor Emerita at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where she taught anthropology for over 30 years and was named a Weiss Presidential Fellow for teaching excellence. Small is also a science journalist writing for various magazines, newspapers, and broadcast outlets, as well as the author of eight books, including Female Choices, What's Love Got to Do With It, Kids, The Culture of Our Discontent, Together: How the Human Need for Connection Forms and Shapes Families, as well as two books on Venetian history. She is best known for the internationally acclaimed book Our Babies Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent. Her popular work has twice been included in the Best Science and Nature Writing series from Houghton Mifflin, and in 2005, she was given the Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association.
