William Durham
William Durham, Ph.D is
Professor of Anthropological Sciences at
Stanford
University
. A winner of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship,
Durham
joined the Stanford faculty in 1977 and has just completed a term as chair of
the department of anthropological sciences. He also serves as Bing Professor in
human biology. Durham's main research interests are in ecology and evolution,
the interaction of genetic and cultural change in human populations, and the
challenges to conservation and community development in the Third World. His
field studies among the San Blas Kuna of
Panama
have involved investigation of demography, genetics, and resource management.
He has also researched the causes of land scarcity and environmental degradation
in rural
El Salvador
and
Honduras
and the social forces behind deforestation in
Mexico
and Central and
South America
. During his tenure at Stanford,
Durham
has received the Gores, Dinkelspeil, ASSU,
Rhodes
, and Bing Fellow Awards for his teaching. His work has been supported by the
National Science Foundation, H. F. Guggenheim Foundation, Danforth Foundation,
and MacArthur Foundation. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in
the Behavioral Sciences from 1989 to 1990, served as the Director of the human
biology program at Stanford from 1992 through 1995, and is currently editor of
the Annual Review of Anthropology.
Durham
earned his Ph.D. from the
University
of
Michigan
.
Selected Bibliography
Durham
, William, (Ed.). Annual Review of
Anthropology: 2002. Annual Reviews: November 2002.
Durham, William. Coevolution: Genes,
Culture and Human Diversity.
Stanford
University
Press: 1992.
Durham
, William and Michael Painter (Eds.). The
Social Cause of Environmental Destruction in
Latin America
: Linking Levels of Analysis.
University
of
Michigan
Press: 1995.
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