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Westminster College Professor Receives Grant for Research

Posted on Monday, May 5, 2003

Dr. Timothy Cuff, visiting assistant professor of humanities at Westminster College, recently received a grant from the Munich Center for Anthropometic Research, part of the Institute for Economic History at the University of Munich.

"I anticipate using the grant money to employ two students over the course of the summer to read microfilm and transfer the contents into a database," said Cuff.   "In particular, they will collect the height and other personal descriptive data from the prison registers of the Tennessee State prisons in the 1800s.  This data will be used to asses the biological standard of living of lower class Tennessee residents of this period."

Cuff's previous research includes an analysis of the relationship between life span and body mass index for 19th century U.S. West Point cadets, and an analysis of physical stature trends among an 8,000 case sample of Pennsylvania National Guard enlisted from 1860-1920.

Cuff, who has been with Westminster College since 2000, earned his undergraduate degree from Westminster College, his master's from Bowling Green State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

For more information, contact (724) 946-6152 or e-mail cufft@westminster.edu.