Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt is a Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Stanford University. Her research interests include cultural models of the person and national and global cultural theories about teaching. She has studied how staff at sheltered workshops define “intelligence,” where teachers’ notions of “immaturity” come from, and how people come to believe so passionately that students should “participate” in class. She has been president of the Council on Anthropology an Education (2004-06), editor of the Anthropology and Education Quarterly (1995-2001) and Secretary of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (1984-1987). Dr. Anderson-Levitt is author of “The Schoolyard Gate: Schooling and Childhood in Global Perspective,” Journal of Social History, 2005; “A World Culture of Schooling?” in her edited volume Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Teaching Cultures: Knowledge for Teaching First Grade in France and the United States (Hampton Press, 2002); and “Behind Schedule: Batch-Produced Children in French and U.S. Classrooms,” in Bradley Levinson, Douglas Foley, and Dorothy Holland, eds., The Cultural Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of Schooling and Local Practice (SUNY Press, 1996).
Nancy Bagatell is an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Quinnipiac University. She earned her PhD in occupational science at the University of Southern California in 2003. As an occupational scientist, she is interested in the importance of everyday activity in the construction of a meaningful life. Her primary interest lies in the ethnography of illness and disability. She is specifically interested in how individuals identified as having social and emotional deficits, such as autism spectrum disorders, construct identities and locate/create community. Her work highlights engagement in occupation as an ethnographic strategy. Expanding on notions of participant observation, she uses "doing together,” engaging in occupation with shared meaning, as a strategy to provide a deeper understanding of the links between occupation and culture.
Myra Bluebond-Langner is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Founding Director of the Center for Children and Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, Camden. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at University at University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She has pursued her interests in questions of self, society and socialization through studies of chronically and terminally ill children, their families and the health care professionals involved in their care and treatment. She is best known for The Private Worlds of Dying Children (Princeton University Press, 1978), In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child (Princeton University Press, 1996) and The Psychosocial Aspects of Cystic Fibrosis (with Denise Angst and Bryan Lask, Arnold and Oxford University Press Publishers, 2001). She has recently completed an ethnographic study in the US and England looking at how physicians, parents, and in some cases the children themselves decide what to do when standard therapy has failed and there is little to no chance of curing the cancer. This study and her previous work informs her recent article, “Involving Children With Life Shortening Illnesses In Decisions About Participation in Clinical Research: A Proposal for Shuttle Diplomacy and Negotiation” in Eric Kodish (ed.) Ethics and Research With Children: A Case-Based Approach. (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Myra Bluebond-Langner is the editor of the Rutgers University Press Book Series in Childhood Studies and currently serves on the editorial boards of mega and the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Marc H. Bornstein is Senior Investigator and Head of Child and Family Research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He holds a B.A. from Columbia College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. Bornstein is coauthor of Development in Infancy (4 editions) and Perceiving Similarity and Comprehending Metaphor. He is general editor of The Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology Series, including Psychological Development from Infancy, Comparative Methods in Psychology, Psychology and Its Allied Disciplines (Vols. I-III), Sensitive Periods in Development, Interaction in Human Development, Cultural Approaches to Parenting, Child Development and Behavioral Pediatrics, and Well-Being: Positive Development Across the Life Course, and he is general editor of the Monographs in Parenting series, including Socioeconomic Status, Parenting, and Child Development, and Acculturation and Parent-Child Relationships. He also edited Maternal Responsiveness: Characteristics and Consequences and the Handbook of Parenting (Vols. I-V, 2 editions), and he has coedited Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook (5 editions), Stability and Continuity in Mental Development, Contemporary Constructions of the Child, Early Child Development in the French Tradition, and The Role of Play in the Development of Though. Bornstein has administered both Federal and Foundation grants, sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals, is a member of scholarly societies in a variety of disciplines, and consults for governments, foundations, universities, publishers, scientific journals, the media, and UNICEF. Bornstein is Editor Emeritus of Child Development and founding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice. His papers have appeared on experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, cross-cultural, neuroscientific, pediatric, and aesthetic topics.
James S. Boster is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He earned his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley. His main interests are in how people understand the world and each other, how that knowledge is socially distributed, and the consequences of that distribution of knowledge. His early work was mainly concerned with how people understand the natural world: how patterns of inter-informant variation in various domains (e.g., birds, fish, manioc varieties, hot-cold valences of foods, etc.) reflect the ways in which culture is learned and transmitted, and how the patterns of correspondence between different systems of biological classification reflect pan-human perceptual strategies drawing common inferences from similar experience. His current research focuses on how people understand themselves and each other, and in how intra and inter-cultural variations in emotions, personality, and values are patterned. Before coming to the University of Connecticut, James was a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation for collaborative research with Jeffrey Johnson and Larry Palinkas on Social Structure, Agreement, and Conflict in Groups in Extreme and Isolated Environments: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. He is co-author of the book Environmental Values in American Culture (Kempton, Willett M., James S. Boster, and Jennifer Hartley. MIT University Press 1995), editor of Intracultural Variation. Special Issue of the American Behavioral Scientist 31(2) (1987), as well as co-author of "When are husbands worth fighting over?" (Gaulin, Steven J. C. and James S. Boster. Evolution and Human Behavior: A Critical Reader. Laura Betzig (ed.). Oxford University Press (1996).
Erika Bourguignon is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Ohio State University. She earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Her fieldwork was among the Chippewa (Wisconsin) and in Haiti. She later headed a five-year project of cross-cultural research on dissociational (trance) states and possession beliefs under a grant from National Institute of Mental Health. Her key publications include: Psychological Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Nature and Cultural Differences; Religion, Altered States of Consciousness, and Social Change, and edited, with Barbara Rigney, Exile: A Memoir of 1939 by Bronka Schneider.
Donald Brenneis a linguistic and social anthropologist, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He earned his Ph.D. in social anthropology from the Social Relations Department at Harvard University. At the core of his work is a concern with the social, psychological, and political life of language, whether in children's arguments, adult gossip, mediation sessions, or research funding panel discussions in Federal agencies. Dr. Brenneis has been editor of the American Ethnologist (1990-1994) and President of the American Anthropological Association (2001-2003). He is author of "Grog and gossip in Bhatgaon: style and substance in Fiji Indian conversation," (American Ethnologist, 1984); "Dramatic gestures: the Fiji Indian pancayat as therapeutic event," in K. Watson-Gegeo and G. White (eds.), Disentangling: Conflict Discourse in Pacific Societies (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990); and "New lexicon, old language: negotiating the ‘global' at the National Science Foundation," in George Marcus (ed.), Critical Anthropology Now (Santa Fe: School of American Research, 1999).
Maricela Correa-Chávez is assistant professor of psychology at Clark University in Massachusetts. She earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research examines cognition and learning as cultural activities tied to people's participation in community traditions and institutions (like school) in a number of cultural communities: Mexican heritage in the U.S. and Mexico, Guatemalan Maya, and middle-class European-American. She's particularly interested in how children use attention in learning, in organizing joint activity, and in communication. Her work also examines issues of culture change, immigration, and globalization especially with regards to Mexico and Central America. Her work has appeared in journals such as Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and the Newsletter for the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, as well as in edited volumes. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute, and by the Institute of Educational Sciences through the American Educational Research Association.
Vincent Crapanzano is distinguished professor of comparative literature and anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received his A.B. In philosophy from Harvard and his PhD in anthropology from Columbia. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, the University of Chicago, the University of Cape Town, the University of Brasilia, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has done fieldwork among the Navaho, the Hamadsha in Morocco, white South Africans, Christian Fundamentalists and Legal Conservatives in the United States, and most recently the Harki in France. His interests range from psychiatric anthropology to theories of interpretation and pragmatics in anthropology, psychology, and literature.His present research interests include the role of trauma in constituting identity, memory, and forgetting across generations. His two most recent books are Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bar and Imaginative Horizons: Essays in Literary-philosophical Anthropology.
Thomas J. Csordas received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Duke University in 1980. He is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. Prior to this appointment he served as Professor of Anthropology and Religion, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, at Case Western Reserve University, where he was on the faculty from 1990 until 2004. He was a recipient of the 1988 Stirling Award for Contributions in Psychological Anthropology and has been a visiting fellow of the Russell Sage Foundation (1996-97). He has served as Editor of Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (1996-2001), and as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (1998-2002). His research interests include anthropological theory, comparative religion, medical and psychological anthropology, cultural phenomenology and embodiment, globalization and social change, and language and culture. He has conducted fieldwork funded by major grants from the National Institute of Mental Health on the Catholic Charismatic Renewal movement, examining topics including healing ritual, religious language, bodily experience, and child development; and among Navajo Indians, examining topics including the experience of Navajo cancer patients, therapeutic process in Navajo religious healing, and language and narrative in interviews with Navajo patients and healers. Among his publications are The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994); (edited) Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Language, Charisma, and Creativity: Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997; paperback ed. Palgrave 2002);and Body/Meaning/Healing (New York: Palgrave, 2002).
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Carol Ember is Executive Director of the Human Relations Area Files, a nonprofit research agency at Yale University, and was previously Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University. Most of her research career has been devoted to cross-cultural research on variation in marriage, family, kin groups, gender roles, predictors of war and other forms of violence (most recently corporal punishment of children). Dr. Ember has served as President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and was co-director of the Summer Institutes for Comparative Anthropological Research (1991-1993, 1996-1998), supported by the National Science Foundation. She is first author (with Melvin Ember) of Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology (Prentice Hall), now going into their 12th editions and Cross-Cultural Research Methods (2002).
Katherine Ewing is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Religion at Duke University and is teaching as a visitor in Anthropology at Columbia University in the spring of 2006. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. She is currently writing a book, "Stigmatized Masculinity: Muslim Gender Relations and Cultural Citizenship in Europe," based on field research among Turks in Germany and the Netherlands. She has done research in Pakistan, Turkey and among Muslims in Europe and the United States. Her research interests include psychoanalytic anthropology, interviewing methodology, Islamization, and diasporic subjectivity and identity. In her book Arguing Sainthood (Duke, 1997), she examined how the Sufi mystical tradition has been a focus of religious and political controversy in Pakistan and how this controversy plays out in the lives of individuals. Other publications include Shariat and Ambiguity in South Asian Islam (California, 1988) and numerous articles, including forthcoming articles in Ethos and Cultural Anthropology.
Gelya Frank received her Ph.D. in anthropology at UCLA in 1981. She is Professor of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. Building upon her early work on life histories and life stories, Dr. Frank's present interests include narrative and collective memory, history and cultural representations of Native California peoples, and intercultural collaborations and social transformations using everyday activities. Dr. Frank’s book Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Biography, Disability and Being Female in America was awarded the 2000 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize by the Society for Medical Anthropology. Dr. Frank was a National Endowment for the Humanities resident scholar at the School for American Research in Santa Fe In 2002-2003. She is Director of the Tule River Tribal History Project and is author of Defying the Odds: One California Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries (Yale University Press, forthcoming), co-authored with Carole Goldberg (Professor of Law and Director, Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies, UCLA). A Fellow of the Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics (1999) and of the Society for Applied Anthropology (2005), Dr. Frank has also published in disability studies, bioethics and on the contributions of Jewish scholars to the discipline of anthropology.
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Joseph P. Gone is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology (Clinical Area) and the Program in American Culture (Native American Studies) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He obtained his A.B. in psychology at Harvard University in 1992 and his doctorate in clinical and community psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. As a cultural psychologist, Gone addresses in his research the key dilemma confronting mental health professionals who serve Native American communities, namely how to provide culturally appropriate helping services that avoid the neo-colonial subversion of local thought and practice. He has published articles and chapters concerning the ethnopsychological investigation of self, identity, personhood, and social relations in American Indian cultural contexts vis-à-vis the mental health professions
Robin Harwood is currently a Visiting Professor at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 in Developmental Psychology from Yale University. In 1995, she authored her book entitled, Culture and Attachment: Perceptions of the Child in Context. She has an undergraduate textbook, Child Development in a Changing Society, due out in 2006 with Wiley Press. She has received major grants from NIH to study culture, parenting, migration, and child development in diverse populations, most notably Puerto Rican families in Connecticut and Turkish families in the Ruhr Valley in Germany.
Dorothy C. Holland is Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She earned her Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. A former President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (2003-2005), one of her primary research interests builds on her earlier co-edited volume, Cultural Models in Language and Thought¸ combining it with a social practice theory of identity and critical psychocultural approaches to address questions raised by social theory (see her co-authored and co-edited books Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds, History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities, and Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal plus chapters and articles such as “Multiple Identities in Practice” and “Self and Power in the World of Romance”). Most recently in this vein, she co-edited a special issue of Ethos: Ethnographic Studies of Positioning and Subjectivity: Narcotraffickers, Taiwanese Brides, Angry Loggers, School Troublemakers. A related line of research involves identity and social movements (see, for example, a co-authored chapter “Becoming an Environmental Justice Activist”). Also relevant is her earlier work in the anthropology of schooling and education including the co-authored Educated in Romance and the co-edited The Cultural Production of the Educated Person.
Janis H. Jenkins
is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at Case Western University, where she has also held two terms as Director of the Women’s Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from UCLA in 1984, where she was subsequently Assistant Research Anthropologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Neuropsychiatric Institute from 1984-86. From 1986-90 she was Research Fellow and Instructor in the Departments of Social Medicine, Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She was the recipient of the SPA Stirling Prize in 1990 for her article entitled “Anthropology, Expressed Emotion, and Schizophrenia.” In 1996-1997, she was Scholar-In-Residence at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. From 1997-2002 she was co-Editor in Chief of Ethos: Journal of the Socieity for Psychological Anthropology. In 2002 Dr. Jenkins was Visiting Professor, Department of Health and Human Sciences, Institute of Social Medicine, Rio de Janeiro. She has been a longstanding member of the scientific review committees for the National Institutes of Health. For academic year 2004-2005, she has been awarded a fellowship by the American Philosophical Society for research on cultural dimensions of mental health.
Her research interests include psychiatric and medical anthropology with particular emphases on the cultural and social specification of processes that make a difference for the course and recovery from illness, to include the subjective experience of psychotropic medications. She has promoted mental health as a global health priority in terms of disparities in the treatment of mental illness in relation to discrimination and political inequity in association with ethnicity, gender, and class. She has also worked on problems of political violence on the part of nation-states as these create political subjectivities (to include trauma) and a distinctive “political ethos” among immigrant and refugee populations. She has conducted fieldwork among Mexican, Salvadoran, and Puerto Rican communities in North America, and a series of studies funded by NIMH on psychocultural factors and the course of schizophrenia, depression and anxiety disorders among Latinos, Euro-Americans, and African-Americans. Publications include numerous articles in journals such as Ethos, the American Journal of Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, British Journal of Psychiatry, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, and Transcultural Psychiatry. Dr Jenkins recently published an edited volume (with Robert Barrett) entitled Schizophrenia, Culture, and Subjectivity: The Edge of Experience, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Charles Lindholm is a University Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, where he is affiliated with the Anthropology Department and the University Professors Program (an interdisciplinary program within BU). Professor Lindholm belongs to the AAA and the American Ethnological Society and to the Society for Psychological Anthropology. He just finished a book on the topic of authenticity as it is constructed and practiced in different spheres of life: artistic, collective and individual. He is now beginning to be interested in the culture of performance, focusing on the actual staging of plays, musical events, art exhibits, and so on. Professor Lindholm retain an interest in idealization, particularly in charismatic relations and romantic love. His most relevant publications are Culture and Identity and Charisma. He recently wrote an article on emotion for Casey and Edgertons' Companion to Psychological Anthropology and an article on the Rajneeshee that was published in Ethos. Professor Lindholm has also published a number of articles and books on his fieldsite in Northern Pakistan, some comparative pieces on the Middle East, and a book and some articles on the culture of the United States.
Ramaswami Mahalingam is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan whose research has two overarching theoretical concerns: how intersecting social identities and social marginality shape the representations of self and group identities and the psychological well being of members of margainalized social communities. Using an intersectionality framework, Prof. Mahalingam examines how categories, such as race, ethnicity, caste, class, gender and sexuality simultanesously affect our lives. Specifically, his research focuses on cultural psychology of caste, immigration and gender. He examines the relationship between power, representation of social groups and psychological well-being. In one line of research, he studies how gender discrimination and extreme son preference affect the psychological well-being of men and women in India. In another line of research, he studies the relationship between privileged social status (e.g., race and caste) and representations of social categories. Prof. Mahalingam's research on immigration investigates the relationship between Model Minority Myth, gender beliefs, perceived discrimination and psychological well-being of Asian immigrants.
Joan G. Miller is Professor and Chair of the developmental psychology at the New School for Social Research. She received her doctorate in human development from the University of Chicago and has held past faculty positions in developmental psychology at Yale University and the University of Michigan. Her research interests center on understanding the cultural grounding of psychological theory and on exploring cultural influences on the development of self. Framed within the conceptual perspective of cultural psychology, she has undertaken cross-cultural developmental research on moral development, interpersonal motivation, attachment, social attribution, and family and friend relationships. She serves as Editor of the Newsletter of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development and as Associate Editor for Theory and Method of the Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin as well as on several journal editorial boards. She has undertaken field work in Mysore, India and was awarded a Nehru Chair Visiting Professorship at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 2000. She is the author of the chapters, “Insights into moral development from cultural psychology” in the Handbook of Moral development (2005), “Cultural and agency: Implications for psychological theories of motivation and social development“ in the Nebraska Symposium on Motivation (2003), and “Theoretical issues in cultural psychology” in the Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology: Volume 1: Theoretical and Methodological Issues (1997).
Peggy Miller is Professor of Speech Communication and Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include developmental cultural psychology, language socialization, everyday narrative, and ethnographic methods. Much of her work has focused on personal storytelling as a medium of socialization in working-class and middle-class communities in the U.S. and in middle-class Taiwanese families in Taiwan. A new line of research addresses parents' childrearing beliefs and practices as they pertain to self-esteem. She is the author of Amy, Wendy, and Beth: Learning Language in South Baltimore (University of Texas Press,1982), (with Wendy Haight) Pretending at Home: Early Development in Sociocultural Context (Albany: SUNY Press, 1993); and (with Edith Hudley and Wendy Haight), "Raise Up a Child": Human Development in an African-American Family (Chicago: Lyceum Press, 2003). Her recent publications include "Ethnographic methods: Applications from developmental cultural psychology" In P.M. Camic, J.E. Rhodes, & L. Yardley (Eds.), Qualitative Research in Psychology (Washington: DC: American Psychological Association, 2003) and "Working-class Children's Experience through the Prism of Personal Storytelling" (Human Development, 2005).
Fred R. Myers is Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Department of Anthropology, New York University. He earned his Ph.D. at Bryn Mawr College. Dr. Myers does research with Aboriginal people in Australia, concentrating on Western Desert people. He has a longstanding interest in questions of sentiment, identity and personhood, and with how these are mediated through material culture and processes of exchange and circulation. His recent work has been involved principally with the intercultural production and circulation of culture, in contemporary art worlds, in circuits of national identity, and in frameworks of cultural property. These interests are developed in two new books, an edited volume, The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture (Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2001), and a study of the development and circulation of Aboriginal acrylic painting, Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (Duke University Press, in press).
James L. Peacock is Kenan Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Peacock was Chair of the Anthropology Department from 1975- 1980 and 1990-1991, and Chair of the Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1991-1994. He was President of the American Anthropological Association from 1993-1995. In 1995 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His fieldwork includes studies of proletarian culture in Surabaja, Indonesia (described in Rites of Modernization, University of Chicago Press, 1968); of Muslim fundamentalism in Southeast Asia (as reported in Muslim Puritans, University of California Press, 1978); and of Primitive Baptists in Appalachia (see Pilgrims of Paradox, Smithsonian, 1989). He is also the author of The Anthropological Lens (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Naomi Quinn is Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology and of Psychology-Social and Health Sciences, at Duke University. She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University. A psychological anthropologist whose lasting interest is the nature of culture, she has been part of a current effort in cognitive anthropology to build a theory of culture on the basis of schema theory, connectionist modeling, and recent developments in neuroscience, and within this framework to demonstrate how cultural meanings become internalized, shared, motivating, enduring historically and within individuals, and thematic across cultural domains. Her most extensive research has pursued the reconstruction, from reasoning, metaphor, and other features of their discourse on it, of Americans' cultural model of marriage. Dr. Quinn also has an ongoing interest in anthropological research on gender. Her theoretical and methodological contribution to her field is most fully represented by Cultural Models in Language and Thought (Cambridge, 1987), co-edited with Dorothy Holland; A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning (Cambridge, 1997), co-authored with Claudia Strauss; and the volume she edited, Finding Culture in Talk: A Collection of Methods (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
Barbara Rogoff is UCSC Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Harvard University. She is interested in cultural processes of collaboration, learning through observation, the development of children's interest and keen attention to ongoing events, and varying roles of adults as guides or as instructors in families and other organizations. Associated interests are historical and cultural differences in children's opportunities to participate in cultural activities or segregation in age-specific hild-focused settings. Dr. Rogoff has been the Editor of Human Development. She is the author of Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990); Guided participation in cultural activity by toddlers and caregivers (with J. J. Mistry, A. Goncu, and C. Mosier; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1993); Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community (with C. Goodman Turkanis and L. Bartlett; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) and The cultural nature of human development (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.)
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Richard A. Shweder, cultural anthropologist and William Claude Reavis Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago, received his Ph.D. in social anthropology in the Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, 1972. He is author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology and Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology (both published by Harvard University Press), and editor or co-editor of many books in the areas cultural psychology, psychological anthropology and comparative human development. Shweder has been recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological Prize for his essay "Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross-Culturally?. He has twice been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto (1985-86 and 1995-96), where he has co-chaired a special project on "Culture, Mind and Biology." He has been a Hewlett Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (2003-2004). He is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development. He has served as President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology and is currently co-chairing a joint Social Science Research Council/Russell Sage Foundation Working Group on "Law and Culture” concerned with the issue of the "Free exercise of culture: How Free Is It? How Free Ought It To Be?"
For the past thirty-seven years Professor Shweder has been conducting research in cultural psychology on moral reasoning, emotional functioning, gender roles, explanations of illness, ideas about the causes suffering, and the moral foundations of family life practices in the Hindu temple town of Bhubaneswar on the East Coast of India. During the 1999-2000 academic year he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin) where he co-edited an issue of the journal Daedalus (Autumn 2000) entitled The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences. His recent research examines the scopes and limits of pluralism and the multicultural challenge in Western liberal democracies. He examines norm conflicts that arise when people migrate from Africa, Asia and Latin America to countries in the "North" bringing with them culturally endorsed practices (e.g., arranged marriage, animal sacrifice, circumcision of both girls and boys, ideas about parental authority) that mainstream populations in the United States or Western Europe sometimes find aberrant and disturbing. How much accommodation to cultural diversity occurs and ought to occur under such circumstances? He has co-edited a book on this topic (with Martha Minow and Hazel Markus) (2002, Russell Sage Foundation Press) entitled Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies; and has been selected as a Carnegie Scholar to write a book called When Cultures Collide: The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration.
Peter G. Stromberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tulsa. He earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1981, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego (Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry) and at the University of California, Berkeley (Institute of Human Development). In 1986 he published an ethnography of a Swedish Church, Symbols of Community (University of Arizona Press). He was also the author of another book focused on evangelical Christianity, Language and Self-Transformation (Cambridge University Press). In these two works, elective commitment to symbols and institutions was studied in a religious context. Since that time, Dr. Stromberg has turned his attention to the same process in secular domains. He has conducted research in the area of advertising, entertainment and consumption in contemporary society by looking at practices such as role-playing games and cigarette smoking. Recent works include “The I of Enthrallment” (Ethos 27: 490-504) and (with Mark and Mimi Nichter) “Taking Play Seriously” (Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, In press). Dr. Stromberg is also a founding partner of Q2 Consulting, a firm specializing in applied research and project evaluation in the areas of mental health and general health care
Thomas S. Weisner is Prof. of Anthropology, Departments of Psychiatry (NPI Center for Culture and Health) and Anthropology at UCLA. His research interests are culture and human development, and in medical, psychological and cultural studies of families and children at risk. He is director of the Fieldwork and Qualitative Data Laboratory in the Mental Retardation Research Center at UCLA. With Greg Duncan, Aletha Huston and others, he is currently studying impacts on children and families of changes in welfare and family supports, based on a longitudinal study over 8 years of a random-assignment experimental support program for working-poor parents. He also directs a longitudinal study of families with children with development disabilities, and is collaborating in a random-assignment, experimental mixed-method study of the impacts of early literacy interventions for Head Start programs (with Chris Lonigan and JoAnn Farver). He has done field research in Western Kenya on sibling caretaking of children, and on the long-term consequences of urban migration for children and families, as well as studies of sibling caretaking and school competence among Native Hawaiians (with Ronald Gallimore). Weisner has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, a member of the MacArthur Foundation research network on successful pathways in middle childhood, is currently President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and is a Senior Program Advisor to the WT Grant Foundation. He is the author of "The American dependency conflict: Continuities and discontinuities in behavior and values of countercultural parents and their children." 2001. Ethos. 29 (3): 271 - 295, and the editor of Making it work: Low-wage employment, family life and child development (with Hiro Yoshikawa & Edward Lowe), in press; Discovering successful pathways in children's development: New methods in the study of childhood and family life, 2005; and African families and the crisis of social change (with Candice Bradley and Phil Kilbride), 1997.
Geoffrey M. White is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i and Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He has been President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (2001-2003) and a member of the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association (2000-2001). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Ethnologist and The Contemporary Pacific. His research interests focus on issues of identity formation, historical memory, and the discursive production of emotion. He has been doing long-term fieldwork on these issues in the Solomon Islands in contexts of colonization, globalization, and nation building. He is also interested in relations between war memory and nationalism, with current projects focusing on memorialization of the Pacific War and September 11 in the United States. He is author of Identity Through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society (Cambridge 1991) and co-editor of Person, Self and Experience: Exploring Pacific Ethnopsychologies (California 1985); Disentangling: Conflict Discourse in Pacific Societies (Stanford 1990); New Directions in Psychological Anthropology (Cambridge 1992); and Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (Duke 2001).
