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Roy Richard Grinker

Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences

Building X 202
2112 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6984
Fax: (202) 994-6075
E-mail: rgrink@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University

Expertise:

Ethnicity and nationalism, Africa, and Korea

Background:

Professor Grinker received his B.A. in anthropology from Grinnell College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University, Carleton College, and The George Washington University, and was a senior Asian Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington, D.C. from 1996-1998.

Professor Grinker offers classes on ethnicity, nationalism, and anthropological theory. He is the author of Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central America (University of California Press, 1994), Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (Blackwell Publishers, co-edited and introduced with Christopher B. Steiner, 1997), Korea and Its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War (St. Martin's Press, 1998), and In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000). His forthcoming book is entitled Autism in the World (New York: Basic Books). Professor Grinker recently received a $120,000 grant from the National Alliance for Autism Research to conduct the first ever epidemiological study of autism in Korea.

Courses Taught:

Anth 156 Politics, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
Anth 157 Kinship, Family, and Community
Anth 178 Cultures of Africa
Anth 198 Foundations of Anthropology
Anth 250 Nationalism and Ethnicity

Last update: 08.31.05