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Curriculum Vitae CURRICULUM VITAE Melvin Ember (1933-2009) Education: B.A., with Honors and Distinction in Anthropology, Columbia University, 1953. Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1958. Appointments: Assistant in Instruction, Department of Culture and Behavior, Yale College, 1956-57. Social Science Analyst (Research Anthropologist), Laboratory of Socio-Environmental Studies, National Institute of Mental Health, 1959-63. Faculty Member, The Graduate Program at the National Institutes of Health, 1961-63. Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, American University, 1961, 1963. Assistant to Associate Professor of Anthropology, Antioch College, 1963-67. Director, First Summer Institute in Cross-Cultural Research, University of Pittsburgh, 1964. Lecturer, Third Summer Institute in Cross-Cultural Research, University of Pittsburgh, 1966. Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1967- December 1970. Professor of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, January 1971- August 1989 (on leave 1987-89). Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1968-73. Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 1973-75. President, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., Yale University, 1987- . Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Yale University, Fall Semester 1992. Fellowships and Grants: University Fellowship, Yale University, 1953-54. Junior Sterling Fellowship, Yale University, 1954-55. Grant from the Tri-Institutional Pacific Program for field research in American Samoa, 1955-56. University Fellowship, Yale University, summer 1956. Junior Sterling Fellowship, Yale University, 1956-57. Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, Yale University, 1957-58. NIMH Grant (with Clellan S. Ford) for "A Preliminary Survey of Cross-Cultural Studies Relating to Health," Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, 1959. NSF Grant for undergraduate instructional equipment, Antioch College, 1965-66. NSF Grant for "Cross-Cultural Studies of Marital Residence," Antioch College, 1966-67. NIMH Grant for "Cross-Cultural Studies of First Cousin Marriage," Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1968-69. Renewal of NIMH Grant for "Cross-Cultural Studies of First Cousin Marriage," Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1969-70. NSF Grant for "The Archeology of Cultural Behavior," Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1970-71. NSF Grant for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, February 1983-August 1984. Grant from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, July 1, 1986-June 30, 1987. NSF Grant for "Cross-Cultural Tests of Ecological, Psychological, and Social Explanations of Warfare and Interpersonal Aggression" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, June 1, 1986-May 31, 1988. Grant from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember), Hunter College of the City University of New York, July 1, 1987-June 30, 1988. NSF Grant for a "Conference to Assess the Past and Help Plan the Future of Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research" (Co-Principal Investigator with Carol R. Ember, Joseph G. Jorgensen, Robert L. Munroe, and Douglas White), conference held at Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, March 1988. NSF Grant for "A Cross-Cultural Study of Political Participation and Peace" (Co-Principal Investigator with Bruce M. Russett and Carol R. Ember), Human Relations Area Files, May 1, 1990-April 30, 1992. Grant from the United States Institute of Peace for "A Cross-Cultural Study of Political Participation and Peace" (Co-Principal Investigator with Bruce M. Russett and Carol R. Ember), Human Relations Area Files, Yale University, May 1, 1990-April 30, 1992. MURI subaward grant "Multidisciplinary Agent-Based Modeling a Conflict Region Using Socio- Cultural and Evolutionary Dynamics. August 1, 2008-August 31, 2011 (PIs: Claudio Cioffi- Revilla, Kenneth De Jong, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Sean Luke and Maksim Tsvetovot). Honors: Member of Executive Committee (1971- ), Human Relations Area Files, Inc. Secretary of the Corporation (1973-81), Human Relations Area Files, Inc. Advisory Editor, Behavior Science Research, 1974-82. President, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, 1981-82. Chairman of the Board of Directors, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., 1981-1987. Editor, Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science (formerly Behavior Science Research), 1982- . Invited to contribute to special 40th anniversary issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research, 1984. Selected as one of the authors reprinted in special issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research on "Approaches to Culture," 1986. Consultant and Contributing Editor, Webster's New World College Dictionary, 3rd edition, 1988, New York: Simon and Schuster. Consultant, The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd edition, 1988, New York: Random House. Will Judy Lecturer, Juniata College, March 1993. Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the East. Member of Executive Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 3 vols., 1999, San Diego: Academic Press. Consultant and Contributing Editor, Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th edition, 1999, New York: Macmillan USA. Cross-Cultural Research Methods (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2001), by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001. Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures, 4 vols. (Danbury, CT: Scholastic/Grolier, 2002), Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds., was selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2002. Books: 1973 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 1977 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Second Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 1981 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Third Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. 1983 Marriage, Family, and Kinship: Comparative Studies of Social Organization (by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember). New Haven: HRAF Press. 1985 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Fourth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1988 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Fifth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1990 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Sixth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1992 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1993 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Seventh Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1995 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Second Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. 1996 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Eighth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. 1996 Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, 4 vols. (David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds.). New York: Henry Holt. 1997 Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (by Burton Pasternak, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. 1997 American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation (David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds.), 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference. 1998 Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals (Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, David Levinson, eds.), 4 vols. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing. 1998 Research Frontiers in Anthropology (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine, eds.), 3 vols. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing. 1998 Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds.). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing. 1998 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Third Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. 1998 Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction Using ExplorIt. (by Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember). Bellevue, WA: MicroCase. 1999 Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Ninth Editions (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. 1999 Cultures of the World: Selections from the Ten-Volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds.). New York: Macmillan Reference. 2000 Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Fourth Edition (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall. 2001 Cross-Cultural Research Methods (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. 2001 Countries and Their Cultures (Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds.),
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