Elliott School Professors Martha Finnemore and Michael Barnett were listed as the No. 1 and No. 11 scholars, respectively, who produced the most interesting scholarship in the past five years in the 2011 Teaching, Research and International Policy (TRIP) survey, which included responses from 1,582 international relations faculty members.
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Roy Richard Grinker
Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences
Office: 2112 G Street, N.W., Room 202
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.
Selected Publications:
- 2010. Grinker, R., S. Lubkemann, and C.B. Steiner, eds. Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History and Representation. 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
- 2007. Grinker, R. Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism. NY: Basic Books.
- 2000. Grinker, R. In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- 1998. Grinker, R. Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War. NY: St. Martin's Press.
- 1994. Grinker, R. Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa.Los Angeles: University of California Press.