Melvin Konner
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
PhD Harvard University 1973; MD Harvard Medical School 1985
Anthropology 106
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Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), earned a Ph.D. in biological anthropology (Harvard, 1973), and did postdoctoral work at the Laboratory of Neuroendocrine Regulation, MIT. He spent a total of two years doing fieldwork among the Kalahari San or Bushmen, studying infant development and the hormonal mechanism of lactational infertility. After six years on the Harvard faculty, he attended Harvard Medical School (M.D. 1985) and moved to Emory as department chair. He has held NIMH and NSF research grants, and been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry. He has been involved in advocating single-payer health reform, and has testified twice at U.S. Senate hearings.
Please visit www.melvinkonner.com for more information. If you are interested in Dr. Konner's views and writings on subjects of Jewish interest, visit www.jewsandothers.com.