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Trevon Logan (Ph.D. University of California - Berkeley, 2004) is Assistant Professor of Economics. His research interests include historical living standards, focusing on the analysis of nutritional well-being and comparative measures of living standards over time; the convergence of biomarkers between groups over the last two hundred years; and the role of human capital in the migration of African Americans before World War I. His largest project explores the practice of dowries in South Asia. One of his key research areas is in biodemography – the modeling of physiological capital and estimating the rate of its transmission from mother to child in the twentieth century. He is currently studying HIV/AIDS, fertility, and birth time in Sub-Saharan Africa.