Appendix III: Biographical Sketches of Presenters

Kathy Ewing, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Since then she has served as Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, San Diego; Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University; and as Visiting Professor at Bogazici University in Turkey and McMaster University in Canada. Her research interests include globalization, identity, migration, psychological anthropology, and religious movements. Her areal specialties are Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia.

Linda Garro, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University. Her research interests include cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, and research methods. Geographically, she focuses on Mesoamerica and northern North America.

Hans-Peter Kohler, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. In his research he attempts to integrate demographic, economic, sociological, and biological approaches in empirical and theoretical models of demographic behavior. Specifically, he is interested in the determinants of low and lowest-low fertility in Southern and Eastern Europe, and the role of interaction processes for fertility and AIDS-related behavior. He has published two books, co-edited a third one, and has published over fifty articles and reviews. Dr. Kohler received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Rachel Kranton, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Previously she has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University, a consultant for the World Bank, and has worked for USAID and Catholic Relief Services in Cairo, Egypt. Her fields of interest include microeconomics, industrial organization, development economics, economics of institutions, and behavioral economics. She has received numerous honors and awards for her teaching and research. Dr. Kranton received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Miller McPherson, Ph.D., is Research Professor at Duke University and Professor at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Before joining the staff at Duke, he held faculty positions at Cornell University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Nebraska. He has interest in the areas of organizations, associations, social networks, and quantitative methods. His current work involves applying his general ecological theory of affiliation to cultural entities such as attitudes, beliefs and social identities. He has over forty articles published in scholarly journals.

Lynn Smith-Lovin, Ph.D., is Robert L. Wilson Professor of Sociology at Duke University, and is an affiliated faculty with Women’s Studies and the Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative in Social Psychology at that institution. Previously she was Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina, Associate Professor at Cornell University, and a Professor at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research areas encompass social psychology, emotions, and gender. She has published over sixty articles and book chapters, a book, and numerous book reviews and commentaries.

Greg Urban, Ph.D., is Arthur Hobson Quinn Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests concern cultural and linguistic anthropology, cultural motion, discourse, corporations and culture, South American Indians, and metaculture. Dr. Urban has published over forty articles in scholarly journals, is the author of three books including Metaculture: How Culture Moves Through the World (2001) and has co-authored four more. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Appendix III: Meeting Participants

Culture, Structure, Identity and Family Change

June 13-14, 2005

6100 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland

5^th Floor Conference Room

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