Background
Trained at the University of Minnesota with Bert Pelto,
E. Adamson Hoebel and James Gibbs,
in graduate work at Michigan with Frank Harary, Clyde Coombs, Marshall Sahlins and Eric Wolf, and at Columbia with Paul Lazarsfeld, Robert Murphy and Marvin Harris,
I did field research with Ojibwa Indians, farmers and fishermen in Veracruz,
Mexico, and a dissertation on cooperative networks and decision-making among
North American Indians. After joining G. P. Murdock at the University of Pittsburgh
in teaching and building the cross-cultural enterprise, I married and joined Dr.
Lilyan Brudner in national level field work on the Irish language and policy analysis for the Republic of Ireland.
Soon after, we joined forces with Hugo Nutini to study social networks and cognition
in villages and factories of
Tlaxcala, Mexico. Recently, after receiving the Alexander von Humboldt Distinguished Senior Scientist Research Award for 1990-1992,
we returned to the Austrian farming communities of Lilyan's PhD research to study
social networks, class and property systems. Since 1992, I've worked collaboratively with Tom Schweizer and colleagues in Germany and in France,
where I was Directeur d'Etudes at Maison des Science de l'Homme; Bourse d'Haute
Niveau of the Ministry of Research at LASMAS, CNRS; and am currently
Co-Responsable Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales. I serve on the editorial boards of Social Science Computing Review,
Michigan Press's Linking Levels of Analysis series,
and the Networks in Society and History electronic
journal, founded in 1997 <under development>.
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