Agustin Fuentes
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Degrees
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Profile
Fuentes's research and teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human and primate societies, cooperation and conflict negotiation, human diversity, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He is also interested in issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions, disease and pathogen transfer, race and racism. Fuentes’ recent published work includes the books Evolution of Human Behavior (Oxford University Press); Health, Risk, and Adversity, (co-edited, Berghahn Press); Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology (McGraw-Hill Co.); and Primates in Perspective (co-edited, Oxford University Press) and articles such as “It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution” and “The humanity of animals and the animality of humans: A view from biological anthropology inspired by J.M. Coetzees’ Elizabeth Costello” in the American Anthropologist, and “Human culture and monkey behavior: Assessing the contexts of potential pathogen transmission between macaques and humans” in the American Journal of Primatology. His current research projects include assessing behavior and disease transmission in human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and patterns of niche construction in human evolution.Contact Information
648
Flanner Hall
631-5421
afuentes@nd.edu
