LAWRENCE A. HIRSCHFELD

Departments of Psychology & Anthropology New School for Social Research 6 East 16 Street, Room 926 New York, NY 10003

SS# 371-48-6245 (212) 229-5727, ext 3116 [email protected]

EDUCATION: Columbia University (Anthropology), 1984, Ph.D.; 1977, M. Phil.; 1975, M.A. Université des Sciences Sociale de Grenoble (French), 1975 University of Michigan (Anthropology), 1971, B.A.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: New School for Social Research: Professor, Departments of Psychology & Anthropology, 2005University of Michigan: Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychology & Anthropology, 2005Professor, Departments of Psychology & of Anthropology, 2004-2005 Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology and of Anthropology, 1996-2003 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & School of Social Work, 1989-1996 Co-director, Graduate Program in Culture and Cognition, 1994-2005 Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, 19922005 Stanford University Visiting Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropological Sciences & Psychology, 20002001 University of Wisconsin, Madison: Assistant Scientist, Department of Anthropology, 1983-1989 Fellow, Eugene Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change, Department of Sociology, 1985-1986 Research Associate, Department of Psychology, 1984-1985 Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique: Chargé de Recherche, Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, Groupe de Recherche sur la Cognition, Ecole Polytechnique, 1 rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France, 1988-1989 Chercheur, Laboratoire de Psycho-Biologie de l'Enfant, Paris, France, 1987-1988 Collège de France: Membre Associé, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, France, 1979-1983 (under the direction of Claude Lévi-Strauss)

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: GRANTS 2013-2018

1994-2001

1994-2000 1994-1996 1994-1997 1991-1992 1990-1991 1990 1990 1990-1991 1988-1989 1987-1988 1977-1978

Office of Naval Research & National Science Foundation (MINERVA Award), “Dynamics of Sacred Values and Social Responsibilities in Governance and Conflict Management: The Interplay between Leaders, Devoted Actor Networks, General Populations, and Time,” PI (Co-PI Jeremy Ginges), $3,448,686.00 (FA9550-14-1-0030) National Science Foundation, "Graduate Research Traineeship Program for the Study of Culture and Cognition," Co-PI (PI, Richard Nisbett), $562,500 (No. GER 9454182) Program in Culture and Cognition, Office of Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, $412,000, Co-Director National Science Foundation, "Prejudice and the organization of young children's knowledge." $125,992 (No. SBR-9319796) National Science Foundation, "Cognitive foundations of biological reasoning." Co-PI (PI, Scott Atran). $289,896 Office of Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Collaborative Research Grant James S. McDonnell Foundation, Conference Grant Office of Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Research Grant Committee on International Studies, University of Michigan, Research Grant Office of Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Interdisciplinary Grant National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Award, Division of International Programs (No. INT-8814397) National Science Foundation, NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science (No. RCD-8751136) National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Award (No. BNS76-23719)

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1999-2000 1996-2001 1993-1994 1992-1993 1987-1989 1980-1983 1979-1980 1975-1976 1975 1975

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Julia Lockwood Award, University of Michigan LS&A Excellence in Education Award, University of Michigan CRLT-LS&A Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan Bourse d'études poste-doctorale, Fondation Fyssen, Paris, France Allocation pour un séjour scientifique de longue dureé, Ministére des relations extérieures, Republic of France ; Under direction of Claude Lévi-Strauss Fellowship, Institute for Intercultural Studies Presidents Fellowship, Columbia University Bourse d'études supérieures, Université de Grenoble, France Fellowship, Council of European Studies

EDITORIAL WORK Associate Editor, Cognitive Science, 2005-2010 Editorial Board, The Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2000 – Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychology, 2001-2010 Review Editor, Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 2010Advisory Editor, MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, 1998-1999

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ADMINISTRATION Chair, Department of Anthropology, New School for Social Research, 2014Director of Undergraduate Studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School, 2009-2014 Chair, Social Inquiry, Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research, 2009-2011 Director, Undergraduate Studies, Anthropology, The New School, 2009-2011, 2012-2013 Co-Director, Culture and Cognition Program, University of Michigan, 1993-2005 Director, Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin's Academic Program in Aix-en-Provence, 1997-1998 Director, Anthropology/Social Work Doctoral Program, University of Michigan, 1991-1996, 1998-1999 REVIEW BOARDS, PANELS, CONSULTANCIES Distinguished Advisor to the Templeton Foundation Positive Neuroscience Awards, 2009Member, National Science Foundation, Anthropology Review Panel, 2003-4 Member, National Science Foundation advisory panel on Human Capital Initiative that drafted Investing in human resources: a strategic plan for the Human Capital Initiative. Workgroup: Reducing disadvantage in a diverse society. Member, Expert Panel, U.S. Census Bureau. Consultation and review of research on race and ethnicity questions for Census 2000. Member, Task Force on Race and Ethnicity, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Pathways Through Middle Childhood Review panelist, Program on Research in Learning and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, 1997. Member, Working Group on Ethnicity and Nationalism, UCLA. 2001 Reviewer for: National Science Foundation, American Anthropologist, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Childhood, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Ethos, First Language, Nature, Psychological Science, Social Science Information, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, University of Michigan Press, McGraw-Hill PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Anthropological Association American Ethnological Society American Psychological Society Cognitive Development Society Society for Research on Child Development Society for Psychological Anthropology International Society for Research on Emotions

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PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: R. Viale, D. Andler, L. Hirschfeld, Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference. Lawrence Erlbaum Publ., 2006. L. Hirschfeld, Race in the making: Cognition, culture and the child's construction of human kinds. M.I.T. Press. 1996. L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman (eds.), Mapping the mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. Cambridge University Press. 1994. Translated into Spanish: Cartografia de la mente: La especificidad de dominio en la cognicion y en la cultura. Barcelona: Gedisa. 2002 JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS: L. Hirschfeld, ‘The myth of mentalizing and primacy of folk sociology.’ In M. R. Banaji & S. A. Gelman (eds.) Navigating the Social World: What infants, children, and other species can teach us. Oxford University Press. Pp. 101-106. 2013. L. Hirschfeld, ‘Seven myths of race and the young child.’ Du Bois Review 9 (1): 17-39. 2012. L. Hirschfeld, ‘Children’s developing conceptions of race.’ In Clark McKown & Stephen Quintana (eds.), The Handbook of Race, Racism, and the Developing Child. Hoboken: Wiley. Pp. 37-54. 2008 L. Hirschfeld, ‘The bilingual brain reconsidered.’ Evolutionary Psychology 6(1): 182-185. 2008. L. Hirschfeld, ‘Folksociology and the cognitive foundations of culture.’ Intellectica 46-47 (2-3): 191206. 2007. D. Medin, S. Unsworth & L. Hirschfeld, “Culture, categorization and reasoning.” In Shinobu Kityama & Dov Cohen (eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology. New York: Guilford Press. Pp.615-644. 2007 L. Hirschfeld, E. Bartmess, S. White, Uta Frith, ‘Can autistic children predict behavior by social stereotypes? Current Biology 17(12), 451-2, 2007. D. Sperber & L. Hirschfeld, ‘Culture and modularity.’ In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, & S. Stich (eds.), The Innate Mind. Volume 2: Culture and Cognition. New York: Oxford U. Press. Pp.149-164. 2006 L. Hirschfeld, ‘Who needs a theory of mind?’. In R. Viale, D., Andler, L. Hirschfeld (eds.), Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference. Lawrence Erlbaum Publ. Pp.131-159. 2006 L. Hirschfeld, 'Children's understanding of racial groups.' In M. Barrett & E. Buchanan-Barrow (eds.), Children's understanding of society. Psychology Press. Pp. 199-221. 2005. D. Sperber & L. Hirschfeld, 'The cognitive foundations of cultural stability and diversity.' Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (1), 42-46, 2004. L. Hirschfeld, 'Pourquoi les anthropologues n'aiment-ils pas les enfants?' Le Terrain 40 (mars), 21-48, 2004.

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J. Leu, N. Berry, L. Hirschfeld, 'Cultural Psychology' In Lynn Nadel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: Macmillan Press. Pp. 889-895. 2003. L. Hirschfeld, 'Why don't anthropologists like children?' American Anthropologist 104 (2), 611-627, 2002. L. Hirschfeld, 'On a folk theory of society: Children, evolution, and the mental representation of social groups.' Personality and Social Psychology Review 62 (2), 106-116. 2001. L. Hirschfeld, 'The inside story.' American Anthropologist 102 (3), 620-29. 2000. L. Hirschfeld, 'Making racial culture: Children and the mental life of a social concept.' In Jessika Ter Wal and Maykel Verkuyten (eds.) Comparative Perspectives on Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate. Pp. 23-45. 2000. L. Hirschfeld, 'L'enfant terrible: Anthropology and its aversion to children.' Etnofoor 12 (1), 5-26. 1999. D. Sperber and L. Hirschfeld, 'Culture, evolution, and the human sciences.' Introductory essay, in R. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. cxi-cxxxii. 1999 S. Gelman & L. Hirschfeld, 'How biological is essentialism?' In D. Medin and S. Atran (eds.), Folk biology. New York: MIT Press. Pp. 403-446. 1999 L. Hirschfeld, 'La regle de la goutte de sang ou comment l'idée de race vient aux enfants.' L'Homme 150, 15-40. 1999. L. Hirschfeld, ‘Natural assumptions: Race, essence, and taxonomies of human kinds.' Social Research 65, 231-249. 1998. L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman. 'What young children think about the relationship between language variation and social difference.' Cognitive Development 12, 213-238. 1997 L. Hirschfeld, 'The conceptual politics of race: lessons from our children.' Ethos 25, 63-92. 1997. L. Hirschfeld, 'The inheritability of identity: Children's understanding of the cultural biology of race.' Child Development 66, 1418-1437. 1995. L. Hirschfeld, 'Do children have a theory of race?' Cognition 54, 209-252. 1995. L. Hirschfeld, 'Anthropology, psychology & the meanings of social causality.' In Dan Sperber, David Premack, and Ann James Premack, (eds.), Causal cognition: a multidisciplinary debate. New York: Oxford U. Press, pp. 313-350. 1995. L. Hirschfeld, 'The child's representation of human groups.' In Douglas Medin (ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory, Volume 31. New York: Academic Press, pp. 133-185. 1994. L. Hirschfeld, 'Is the acquisition of social categories based on domain-specific competence or on knowledge transfer?' In Hirschfeld, L. and Gelman, S., Mapping the mind: domain specificity in cognition and culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-233. 1994. Reprinted in David Inglis, John Bone & Rhoda Wilkie (3ds.) Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. New York: Routledge. 2005.

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L. Hirschfeld & S. Gelman, 'Toward a topography of mind: an introduction to domain-specificity.' In Hirschfeld, L. and Gelman, S., Mapping the mind: domain specificity in cognition and culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-36. 1994. L. Hirschfeld, 'Discovering social difference: The role of appearance in the development of racial awareness.' Cognitive Psychology, 25, 317-350. 1993. L. Hirschfeld, 'Rethinking the acquisition of kinship terms.' International Journal of Behavioral Development 12(4), 541-568. 1989. L. Hirschfeld, 'Discovering linguistic differences: Domain specificity and the young child's awareness of multiple languages.' Human Development 32, 223-26. 1989. L. Hirschfeld, 'On acquiring social categories: Cognitive development and anthropological wisdom.' Man 23(4), 611-638. 1988. L. Hirschfeld, 'Kinship and cognition: genealogy and the meaning of kinship terms.' Current Anthropology 27(3), 217-242. 1986. L. Hirschfeld, S. Atran & A. Yengoyan, 'Theories of knowledge and culture', Social Science Information 21(2), 161-198. 1982. J. Howe & L. Hirschfeld, 'The star girls descent: a myth about men, women, matrilocality and singing', Journal of American Folklore 94(373), 292-322. 1981. L. Hirschfeld, 'Cuna aesthetics: a quantitative analysis.' Ethnology, 16(2), 147-166. 1977. (Reprinted and translated in Catálogo de Arte Indigena en Colombia. Palma: Bitzoc Literatura. 1993). L. Hirschfeld, 'Art in Cunaland: ideology and cultural adaptation.' Man (n.s.), 12(1): 104-123. 1977. L. Hirschfeld, 'Structural analysis of the Cuna arts.' In James Howe and Philip Young (eds.), Ritual and Symbol in Indigenous Central America. Anthropological Papers, No. 9, University of Oregon: Eugene, Oregon, pp.43-56. 1976. L. Hirschfeld, 'Critical incident analysis.' In Richard Boyatzis (ed.), Alcohol and Aggression. Cambridge: McBer and Co. 1973. IN PREPARATION (BOOKS): L. Hirschfeld, Cornelia's Cradle: How people who should have known better misstepped in building the better child. Yale University Press. RESEARCH REPORTS, REVIEWS, COMMENTARIES: L. Hirschfeld, ‘Dan Sperber.’ Jon R. McGee & Richard L. Warms (eds), Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. In press. L. Hirschfeld, ‘Dan Sperber.’ Vered Amit (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. London: Routledge. 2004. L. Hirschfeld, 'Race et réductionisme: Réponse B Guille-Escuret.' L'Homme 153, 299-302. 2000.

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L. Hirschfeld, 'Naive sociology' In R. Wilson and F. Keil (eds.), MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 579-581. 1999 L. Hirschfeld, 'Mis au point.' L'Homme 147. 1998. L. Hirschfeld, review essay of H. Fishbein, Peer Prejudice and Discrimination: Evolutionary, Cultural, and Developmental Dynamics, Mind, Culture, and Activity 5 (1), 67-70. 1998. L. Hirschfeld, 'Race, causality, and the attribution of theory-like understandings: A reply to Kim.' Cognition 64, 347-352. 1997. L. Hirschfeld & K. Cheyfitz, 'Expand or eliminate racial categories: Unneeded information.' Washington Times, August 4, 1996. L. Hirschfeld, Letter to the editor, New York Times, Sunday Book Review (commentary on M. Browne's review of Herrnstein & Murray's, The Bell Curve), November 13, 1994. L. Hirschfeld, 'On childhood cognition and social institutions.' Man, 29, 977-79. 1994. L. Hirschfeld, Review of B. Berlin's Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies, American Ethnologist, 21, 430-431. 1994. L. Hirschfeld, Review of W. Cross, Shades of Black, American Anthropologist 94, 946-7. 1992. L. Hirschfeld, Review of P. Boyer's, Tradition as Truth and Communication: A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse, American Anthropologist: 93, 730-1. 1991. L. Hirschfeld, 'Reply to Phylactou and Toren' Man 25(1), 145. 1990. L. Hirschfeld, Review of R. Murphy, The Body Silent, Contemporary Sociology 18(2), 276-277. 1989. L. Hirschfeld, 'Cognizing racism.' (Review of T. van Dijk, Communicating Racism) Contemporary Sociology 17(2):149-150. 1988. L. Hirschfeld, 'Hermeneutics and some lessons from anthropology.' (Review essay of C. Geertz, Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology) Contemporary Sociology 15(1):34-37. 1986. L. Hirschfeld, Review of A. S. Sinaga, The Toba-Batak High God. L'Homme 23(2), 154-5. 1983. L. Hirschfeld, 'Notes on the Toba Batak (Sumatra).' L'Homme 19(1), 141-144. 1979. L. Hirschfeld, 'Reply to Divale et al.' American Anthropologist 81(2), 349-351. 1979. L. Hirschfeld, B. Levin, & J. Howe, 'Warfare, infanticide, and statistical inference: a comment on Harris and Divale.' American Anthropologist 80(1), 110-115. 1978.

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED: Organizer: 'Race, power, and the mind: toward an interdisciplinary approach to racial identity.

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Conference cosponsored by Culture and Cognition Program and the Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, February 1996. Organizer: 'Culture, psychology, and the construction of race.' Invited session, biennial meetings of the Society of Psychological Anthropology, San Juan, October 1995. Organizer: 'Children and Race.' Conference sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Montreal, May 1994. Organizer: 'Cultural Knowledge and Domain Specificity' (with Susan Gelman), Conference cosponsored by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, University of Michigan, and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1990. Organizer: 'Concepts in Culture and Cognition.' Invited Session, Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, December 1990.

   

 

 

 

         

 

PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED COLLOQUIA: ‘On group-based causal reasoning: Folksociology as a core domain.’ Workshop on ‘How Universal is Causal Cognition?’ Zentrum für Interdisziplinare Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Germany. May 2012. ‘Pourquoi des ethnologues n’aiment pas des enfants?’ Spring Institute, Anthropologie, sociologie et travail social: Regards croises et applications au développement humain. Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines Sais Fès. May 2009 ‘Why it is always “us” and “them”? On the natural history of thinking through groups.’ Departmental Colloquium, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, January 2009. ‘What does anthropology really study?’ Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovaki, October 2008. ‘Why is it always 'us' and 'them'? On the Natural History of thinking through groups.’ Comernius University, Bratislava, Slovaki, October 2008. ‘Why it’s always “us” and “them”.’ Inaugural presentation, Culture and Cognition Colloquia, Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, London School of Economics, December 2007. ‘The discovery of race: Children’s emerging (and troubling) understanding of social groups.’ NYUColumbia Ethnic Politics Seminar Series, Department of Political Science, NYU, November 2007. ‘Does the autistic child have a theory of society? And why we should care?’ Department of Psychology, Yale University, April 2007.

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‘The evolutionary basis for intergroup relations.’ Conference on Group Boundaries and Social Preferences, MacArthur Foundation Norms and Preferences Network. Harvard University, December 2006. ‘Autism, stereotyping, and prejudice: Evidence for the autonomy of social reasoning’ Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA 2005. ‘How to catch a bad idea.’ New School for Social Research, May 2004. ‘What can autistic children teach us about how we understand others?’ Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, March 2004. ‘Does the autistic child have a theory of society?’ Department of Psychology, NYU, December 2004. 'Does the autistic child have a theory of society?' Department of Psychology, Rice University, November 2003. 'Is race a state of mind?' Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, October 2003. 'Essentialism, culture, and folkbiology,' Annual Meetings of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah, October 2003. 'The concept of morality among preschool children.' Conference on Naive Moral Cognition, Harvard University. November 2002. 'How to catch a bad idea.' Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, New School University. October 2002. 'Racialization and disparities in health care: a cognitive approach.' National Cancer Institute. Washington, D.C., October 2002 'On the cognitive origins of Race.' Stereotype Development, Maintenance, and Change Workshop, National Academy of Science, Washington D.C., April 2002 'Why don't anthropologists like children?' Mellon Seminar on Contested Childhood, International Institute, University of Michigan. March 2002. 'Why don't anthropologists like children?' Faculty Seminar, Anthropology Department, University of Michigan. January 2002. 'Cognition and group representation.' Sociology Department, Workshop on Nationalism, ethnicity, and race, UCLA, April 2001

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'Psychological phenomena versus psychological explanations: a theory of mind and a theory of society.' Keynote address, Culture and Cognition Program Annual Conference, University of Michigan, April 2001. 'Who needs a theory of mind?' Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, May 2001. 'On a folk theory of society,' Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford University, December 2000. 'Analogy and the problem of cultural meaning,' Paper presented on Invited Panel in Honor of Jerome Bruner, Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2000. 'Craving society: How children create the worlds in which we live,' Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, April 2000. 'Get a group: folk sociology as a foundational theory,' Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, February 2000. 'How to catch a bad idea,' Department of Psychology, Stanford University, October 1999. 'Nature and representation of categories: classical, prototype, instance theories: Child development of categories of race and ethnicity,' Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, June 1999. 'On the Acquisition of Social Knowledge: Children's Understanding of Human Groupings,' Developmental Area, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, April 1999. 'Naturalness in social categorization.' Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, June 1998. 'What's intuitive about naive biology? A question about core domains,' Atelier Jean Nicod, Conference on 'L'origine des concepts : Évolution vs culture.' France, June 1998 'Natural assumptions: race and the power of essence,' Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 1998. 'Variété et origine des catégories sociales.' Department of Psychology, Université d'Aix, Aix-enProvence, April 1998. 'Modularité de l'architecture cognitive :conséquences pour létude des catégories sociales,' Conférence de la formation doctorale, Department of Psychology, Université d'Aix, Aix-en-Provence, April 1998.

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'Shaping and sustaining racism: the indispensable role of the child .' Paper delivered at Third International Conference of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations: theme 'New directions in comparative research on racism and xenophobia.' University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 1998. 'The cultural life of the mind and the mental life of culture: issues in developing a cultural psychology.' Department of Psychology, Keiyo University, Japan, June 1997. 'Race, culture, and the study of cognition,' Department of Psychology, Ochanomizu University, Japan, June 1997. 'Domain specificity,' Department of Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Japan, June 1997. 'A psychological account of race.' Combined Doctoral Program in Education and Psychology, University of Michigan, December 1996. 'Conceptual architecture and the cultural politics of race.' Department of Psychology, New York University, NY, October 1996. 'The child's construction of humankinds.' Conference on "Culture, mind, and biology making each other up," Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, May 1996. 'Science, the mind, and anthropological theory.' Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, January 1996. 'The child's understanding of cultural biology.' Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, November 1995. 'Race, power, and the mind: lessons from our children.' Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago, November 1995. 'Is it a coincidence that race is both a category of the mind and a category of power?' Paper presented at panel on "Culture, Psychology, and the Construction of Race at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, San Juan, October 1995. 'The current state of our knowledge of intelligence, intelligence testing, culture, and "race".' Symposium on "Science or racism? Anthropological addresses The Bell Curve," University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1995. 'The influence of age and ethnicity on reasoning about parent-offspring resemblance' (with Ken Springer). Biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Indianapolis, March 1995. 'Endogenous influences on children's racial attitudes.' Conference on Children and Race sponsored by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Montreal, May 1994.

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'Race, children, and essentialist thinking.' Annual meetings of the American Ethnological Society, Los Angeles, April 1994. 'Children and the conceptual politics of race.' Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, September 1993. 'Essentialist beliefs in nonbiological categories.' Workshop on Integration of knowledge and experience in categorization, Northwestern Cognitive Science Program, Northwestern University, April 1993. 'Do young children believe race is a biological category? Reconsidering the standard views.' Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, May 1993. 'Young children's understanding of racial constancy,' paper presented at Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, New Orleans, March 1993. 'Children's beliefs about the innate potential of race,' paper presented at Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, New Orleans, March 1993. 'Prejudice and the organization of young children's knowledge,' Program in Cognition & Culture, Research Center for Group Dynamics, ISR, University of Michigan, Febuary 1993. 'Anthropology, psychology & the elaboration of social causality,' paper presented at conference on Causal Understandings in Cognition and Culture, Fondation Fyssen, Paris, January 1993. 'Culture and cognition from an anthropological perspective', Research Club, University of Michigan, November 1991. 'The mental life of a social category', paper presented at invited panel "The mental and social life of categories", Bi-annual meetings of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Chicago, October 1991. 'Domain specificity and the coordination of knowledge', Department of Psychology (Developmental Section), University of Michigan, April 1991. 'The child's understanding of society through language or language through society?', Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, April 1991. 'Preschooler's metalinguistic and metasocial awareness', paper read at the Biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development, Seattle, Washington, April 1991. 'Discovering race: Emergent social understanding in young French children', Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, April 1990. 'Understanding race and society: Social cognition in young French children', School of Social Work

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University of Michigan, May 1990. 'Nouvelles perspectives sur le développement cognitif', Paper delivered at Colloquium "La philosophie, les sciences humaines, et l'étude de la cognition", Cerisy, France, June 1990. 'Young children's categorization of the natural and social worlds', Paper delivered at Invited Symposium "Concepts in culture and cognition: Social categories and natural kinds", Annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, December 1990. 'Emergence of the concept of race among preschoolers', Michigan Program in Child Development and Social Policy Seminar Series, December 1990. 'Native structures of kinship', Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, April 1989. 'The young child's categories of kinship', Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, April 1989. 'Anthropology and psychology: Kinship and conceptual development', CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, June 1989. 'Domain specificity and the acquisition of kinship terms', Istituto di Psicologia del CNR, Rome, June 1989. 'La catégorisation sociale: Aspects généraux et développementaux', paper read at Seminar on Psychologie cognitive du traitement de l'information symbolique, Université de Paris VIII, June 1988. 'Filiation, exchange and stability in North Sumatra', paper read at Conference on Cognatic Forms of Social Organization in Southeast Asia, Universiteit van Amsterdam, January 1983 'Stability and expansion in North Sumatra', paper read at symposium on Batak Social Organization in Comparative Perspective held at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 1982. 'Cuna men comment mythically on Cuna Women's roles' (with James Howe), paper read at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 1976). 'Structural analysis of the Cuna Arts.' Symposium on Ritual and Symbolism in Indigenous Central America presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, December 1975.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: Discussant, ‘The Future of Economics: Updating Bounded Rationality.’ Workshop organized by The Herbert Simon Society, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, NY, May 2011. Speaker, ‘Pourquoi les anthropologues n'aiment-ils pas les enfants?’ Conference on Anthropologie, sociologie et travail social: Regards croisés et applications au développement humain, Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fez, Morocco, May 2009. Discussant, ‘The Cognitive and Cultural Origins of Social Categorization’. Symposium at Biennial

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Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA April 2007. Participant, 'Conference on Social Identity, New York University/MacArthur Foundation, October 1998. Discussant, 'How children explain people.' Paper Symposium at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 1997. Discussant, 'Stereotyping stereotyping? Distinct and shared mechanisms in racial and gender stereotype development.' Paper Symposium at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC, April 1997. Discussant: 'Children and the formation of ethnic and national identity.' Symposium at Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 1996. Discussant: 'How children explain people.' Paper Symposium at Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C., April 1997. Discussant: 'Stereotyping stereotyping? Distinct and shared mechanisms in racil and gender stereotype development.' Symposium, Biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D.C., April 1997. Discussant, Panel 'Children and the formation of ethnic and national identities,' Panel at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 1996.