Christopher Boehm October 10, 2020 CURRICULUM VITAE Christopher Boehm EDUCATION B. A. Antioch College, philosophy 1959 M. A. Harvard University, social anthropology 1970 PH. D. Harvard University, social anthropology 1972 EMPLOYMENT 2011 — Director, the Goodall Research Center, and Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology, University of Southern California. 2003-2011 Director, the Goodall Research Center, and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences, University of Southern California. 1992-2003 Director, the Goodall Research Center, and Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California. 1991-1992 Visiting Professorship in Anthropology and Acting Director of Research, the Goodall Research Center, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California. 1984-1991 Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Sociology, Northern Kentucky University. 1982-1984 Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Sociology, Northern Kentucky University. 1978-1982 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Sociology, Northern Kentucky University. [Tenure granted September, 1978] 1974-1978 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University. 1972-1974 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College. 1971-1972 Lecturer in Anthropology, M.I.T. 1 Christopher Boehm 1970-1971 Part-Time Lecturer in Anthropology, M.I.T. 1968-1969 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University. 1961-1963 Sophomore Tutor, Harvard University. 1961 Interviewer, Bert Kaplan Project for Crosscultural Study of Mental Illness, Navajo Reservation. THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Theoretical Interests: Comparative study of human and nonhuman primate social behavior Egalitarian politics among hunter-gatherers Moral evolution, conscience origins, supernatural sanctions Social selection and evolution of altruism Feuding and warfare Research Areas: Evolutionary Studies: evolution of political behavior in apes and humans; moral evolution; altruism, social selection; rational decisions in evolutionary process Political Anthropology: egalitarianism; hunter-gatherer politics Field Research: Navajo Reservation: Research with medicine men, 3 months. Montenegro, Yugoslavia: Research on ethical values of tribal Serbs, Upper Moracha Tribe, 3 years. Gombe National Park, Tanzania: Research on chimpanzee conflict resolution, 16 months. Database Development: 2 Christopher Boehm Hunter-Gatherer Database: This long-term project involves coding Pleistocene-appropriate foraging societies to create a public database focused on social and political behavior. Presently 70 societies have been coded and are being used in publication. HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, MAJOR GRANTS, Etc. Total external research funding: $1,064,000 [for further details, see MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS; EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH] 2016-2017 Senior Scholar with the Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago. 2015-2018 John Templeton Foundation: three-year research grant to develop hunter-gatherer database and study cooperation and leadership among today’s foragers in an evolutionary context. 2012-2014 John Templeton Foundation [Human Uniqueness Program]: three-year research grant to study free-riding behavior in hunter-gatherers. 2011 Invited to join CARTA, The Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny, funded by the Salk Foundation and located at the University of San Diego. The center’s mission is to foster an interdisciplinary approach to explaining human origins. 2003-2005 John Templeton Foundation (IRUL Program): two year research grant to study altruistic behavior in hunter-gatherers. 2001-2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to research the natural history of conflict resolution and morality. Academic year, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2001 Keynote Address for the meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Conference on Biodiversity, funded by National Science Foundation Biodiversity Program. House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2001-2002 Visiting Professor, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, one year. (Declined) 2001 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia, Institute of Advanced Studies, Perth, two weeks. (Declined) 1999-2000 Weatherhead Fellowship, School of Advanced Research, one-year resident fellowship to begin book on the evolution of morality. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1998-2001 John Templeton Foundation: three year research grant to study conflict resolution in nonliterate societies. (With David Wilson) 3 Christopher Boehm 1992 Stirling Prize in Psychological Anthropology, awarded at American Anthropological Association meetings, San Francisco: for target article on egalitarianism published in Current Anthropology. 1987-1989 H. F. Guggenheim Foundation: field study grant to investigate conflict resolution among wild chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. 1984-1985 National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship: academic year to study the evolution of moral behavior. 1982-1983 H. F. Guggenheim Foundation: research grant to study egalitarian behavior. 1982-1983 Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, Harvard University. 1981 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Fellowship. 1975 Northwestern University Summer Fellowship. 1966-1968 NIMH Dissertation Fellowships. 1964-1966 NIMH Research Fellowship (field research). 1963-1964 Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellowship (field research). 1962-1963 Ford Foundation Foreign Area Training Fellowship (area training). 1962 Awarded "Distinction," doctoral oral examination, Harvard University. 1960-1962 Fellow, Harvard University Training Program for Social Scientists. 1959-1960 Harvard University Fellowship in Social Anthropology. 1959-1960 University of Michican Ford Foundation Behavioral Science Fellowship. (Declined). BOOKS Submitted Culture Shock. (Harvard Press) 2017 Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Prague: Czech Academy of Sciences. [1999 book republished with Author’s Afterword] 2012 Moral Origins: The Evolution of Altruism, Virtue, and Shame. New York: Basic Books. (Also translated and published in Japanese) 1999 Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [Also translated and published in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean editions] 4 Christopher Boehm 1999 Special Issue on Group Selection, for the journal Human Nature. (Guest Editor) 1998 Krvna Osveta u Crnoj Gori. Podgorica, Montenegro: CID. [1986 book revised and translated into Serbian: Serbian title is Blood Revenge in Montenegro] 1986 Blood Revenge: The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Montenegro and Other Tribal Societies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. [1984 book republished with revisions and new title] 1984 Blood Revenge: The Anthropology of Feuding in Montenegro and Other Nonliterate Societies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 1983 Montenegrin Social Organization and Values: Political Ethnography of a Refuge Area Tribal Adaptation. New York: AMS Press. ARTICLES, MAJOR BOOK CHAPTERS In process The Earlier Evolution of Democracy. (Submitted to Science) In process Leadership and Cooperation in Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers. Under revision Prehistoric Capital Punishment and Human Self-Domestication. Accepted with revisions by Human Nature. 2019 The Evolution of Human Socio-Political Systems. Behavioural Processes. 171:17-30. [co- authored with Herbert Gintis and Carel van Schaik.] 2018 Collective Intentionality: A Basic and Early Component of Moral Evolution. Philosophical Psychology 31:680-702. 2017 Ancestral Precursors, Social Control, and Social Selection in the Evolution of Morals. In, Chimpanzees and Human Evolution, Martin Muller, David Pilbeam, and Richard Wrangham, eds. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2017 Gossip and Reputation in Small-Scale Societies: A View from Evolutionary Anthropology. Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation. Francesca Giardini & Rafael Wittek, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017 Prehistoric Capital Punishment and Parallel Evolutionary Effects. Minding Nature 10:1- 14. 2016 Bullies: Redefining the Human Free-Rider Problem. Chapter for Darwin’s Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences. Joseph Carroll and Edward O. Wilson, eds. Oxford University Press. 5 Christopher Boehm 2015 Zoon Politikon: The Evolutionary Roots of Human Sociopolitical Systems. Current Anthropology 56:327-353. (Target article with commentary and authors’ response, co-authored with Herbert Gintis and Carel van Schaik) 2015 Evolution of Social Control. In, Handbook on Evolution and Society; Towards an Evolutionary Social Science, Jonathan Turner, Richard Machalek, and Alexandra Maryanski, eds. New York: Paradigm Press. 2014 The Moral Consequences of Social Selection. Behaviour 171:167-183. 2014 The Moral Consequences of Social Selection. In, Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience, Frans de Waal, Patricia Smith Churchland, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Parmigiani, eds. Leiden: Brill. (Behaviour article republished) 2014 Defining the Evolutionary Conscience. In, Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives? Hilary Putnam, Susan Neiman, and Jeffrey P. Schloss, eds. New York: Transaction Press. 2013 The Biocultural Evolution of Conflict Resolution Between Groups. In, War, Peace, and Human Nature. Douglas Fry, ed. Pp. 315-340. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013 Review of The Bonobo and the