CURRENT POSITION: Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0418 Phone: (714) 787-4340, FAX: 714/787-5409, Internet: david.kronenfeld@ucr.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A. 1963 Harvard University (Social Relations)
-- 1963-64 Yale University (Anthropology)
M.A. 1965 Stanford University (Anthropology)
-- 1968-69 Oxford University (Visiting Student, Anthropology)
Ph.D. 1969 Stanford University (Anthropology)
APPOINTMENTS:
July 2009 - Present Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
August 27 - October 30, 2007 1993 Guest Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oslo (Norway)
July 1993 - June 2009 Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
July 1981 - June 1993 Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
July 1976 - June 1981 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
July 1969 - June 1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS:
Social Anthropology
Kinship
Social Organization
Ethnicity and Stranger Communities
Linguistic Anthropology
Semantics
Cognitive Anthropology
Computer and Mathematical Applications
Culture as Distributed Cognition
Africa
HONORS AND AWARDS:
B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University
Yale University Fellowship 9/63-6/64
National Science Foundation Co-operative Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 8/64-6/65, 9/65-8/66
National Institute of Mental Health Pre-doctoral Fellow, 9/66-8/69
National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant, 6/67-7/69
University of California Intramural Research Grants, 69/70 - Present
Haynes Foundation Summer Faculty Fellowship, Summer 1971
UC Instructional Improvement Grant, 1979-80
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected in 1983)
Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California, Riverside, Winter 1992
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
American Ethnological Society
Linguistic Society of America
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)
Current Anthropology (Associate)
Royal Anthropological Institute (Fellow)
Southwestern Anthropological Association (President 1988-89)
Society for Anthropology of North America
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Society for Economic Anthropology
Society for Urban Anthropology
ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC SENATE POSITIONS:
July 1980 - June 1993 Chair, Department of Anthropology, UCR
March 1980 - Dec 1980, 1991 - July 2009 Chair, Committee on Linguistics, UCR
Sept 1969 - Dec 1975 Graduate Advisor, Department of Anthropology, UCR
July 1977 - June 1981 Graduate Advisor, Department of Anthropology, UCR
July 1997 - June 2001 Member, Committee on Planning and Budget (campuswide Academic Senate)
July 2007 - Present Member, Committee on Charges (Campuswide Academic Senate), UCR
July 1989 - June 1991 Chair, Graduate Council (campuswide Academic Senate Committee overseeing graduate programs),
UCR (member: July 1988 - Dec 1991)
July 1984 - June 1985 Chair, Committee on Computers (campuswide Academic Senate), UCR (member: July 1983 - June 1985)
July 1987 - June 1988 Acting Director, Center for Social and Behavioral Science Research (Organized Research Unit)
Sept 1969 - present Member, Committee on Linguistics (Chair March 1980 - Dec 1980, July 1991 - present)
July 1981 - June 1993 Member, Committee in charge of Womens' Studies Program
July 1987 - June 1991 Member, UCR-Mexico Collaborative Research and Training Group
PERSONAL:
Born December 21, 1941 in Miami Beach, Florida
Married, 2 children
U. S. Citizen
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