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Carol Ember
CAROL R. EMBER is President of the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Previously she served as Executive Director from 1996 to 2009. She is also the editor of the journal Cross-Cultural Research, the President-Elect of the Society for Anthropological Sciences, and she currently serves on the Board of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society. She has served as President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and co-directed the Summer Institutes for Comparative Anthropological Research, which were supported by the National Science Foundation. Most of her research career has been devoted to cross-cultural research on variation in marriage, family, kin groups, gender roles, predictors of war and other forms of violence. She is interested in research that integrates the fields of anthropology as well as anthropology with other disciplines. She is the first author (with Melvin Ember) of Cultural Anthropology, now in its 13th edition and Anthropology (with Melvin Ember and Peter N. Peregrine), now in its 13th edition. She and Melvin Ember also wrote a primer on how to do cross-cultural research (Cross-Cultural Research Methods), now in its 2nd edition.

Date of Birth : 1948-13-06 Place of Birth : New York City Country : United States Field of Expertise : Cultural Anthropological Educational background : Graduate in sociology and cross-cultural study on marriage, family, war and peace, and tumble groups from Harvard University.

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Carol has done cross-cultural study on marriage, family, war and peace, and tumble groups, all with her now husband Melvin Ember whom she married in 1970.
She taught at Hunter College in New York from 1970 to 1996, and has served as President of the Society of Cross-Cultural study.
Carol is at present Director of the Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research, and is also Executive Director at the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.