Russel-Research-Method-in-Anthropology

About the Author
H. Russell Bernard (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1968) is professor of
anthropology at the University of Florida. He has also held faculty positions
at Washington State University and West Virginia University and has taught
or done research at the University of Athens, the University of Cologne, the
National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka), the University of Michigan, and the
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr. Bernard works with indigenous people
to develop publishing outlets for works in previously nonwritten languages.
He also does research in social network analysis, particularly on the
problem of estimating the size of uncountable populations.
His book (with Jésus Salinas Pedraza) Native Ethnography: A Mexican
Indian Describes His Culture (Sage, 1989) won special mention in the 1990
Chicago Folklore Prize. Other books include Technology and Social Change
(Waveland, 1983, 2d ed., edited with Pertti Pelto), three editions of Research
Methods in Anthropology (Sage, 1988; AltaMira, 1994, 2000), Data Analysis
with MYSTAT (McGraw-Hill, 1995, with W. Penn Handwerker), Handbook of
Methods in Cultural Anthropology (AltaMira, 1998), and Social Research
Methods (Sage, 2000).
Dr. Bernard received the 2003 Franz Boas Award from the American
Anthropological Association for his service to the discipline. He was editor of
the journals Human Organization (1976–1981) and American Anthropologist
(1981–1989), and he founded and currently edits the journal Field Methods.
He has worked since 1987 in NSF-supported research methods training programs.
He is one of the founders of the International Social Network Conference
and serves on Board of Directors of the Human Relations Area Files.
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