Scott Atran is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Nicod, EHESS-ENS in Paris, France, and Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research, as well as Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology (1984) from Columbia University (doctoral thesis: "The Phenomenal Foundations of Biological Classification"). He was assistant to Dr. Margaret Mead, Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History (1970-74), coordinator of the Animal and Human Communication Program at the Royaumont Center for a Science of Man, Paris, France, and organizer of the Chomsky-Piaget Conference on Language and Learning (1974-76). Since 1981, he has held numerous research and teaching positions in France, Israel, and the United States. His research focus is on the cognitive foundations of biological classification, learning, and reasoning. He has published broadly on these topics, including the book Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Toward an Anthropology of Science (1990). He is currently involved in joint research with Dr. Douglas Medin on ethnoecological knowledge and reasoning, as well as on the conceptualization and management of common-pool natural resources, among the Mayan and Mestizo populations of Guatemala and Mexico.
Author of the following papers featured on interdisciplines.org:
· Genesis and Future of Suicide Terrorism
· Genèse et futur de l'attentat suicide
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