CURRICULUM VITAE

Douglas P. Fry, PhD

Professor & Chairperson

Department of Anthropology

University of Alabama at Birmingham

1401 University Blvd, Heritage Hall, Room 322

Birmingham, AL 35294

USA

Email: dfry@uab.edu

Phone: 1 (205) 934-3508

Webpage: http://www.uab.edu/cas/anthropology/people/faculty-directory/douglas-p-fry

Additional Affiliation:

Docent of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Department of Social Sciences

Åbo Akademi University in Vasa

PO Box 311

FIN-65101 Vasa, Finland

EDUCATION

1986 Ph.D. Indiana University, Anthropology

1981 M.A. Indiana University, Anthropology

1976 B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara, Anthropology and Psychology

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2014 - Present Professor & Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

1996 - Present Docent, Department of Social Sciences, Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland

1996 – 2015 Adjunct Research Scientist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of

Arizona

2010-2014 Director Master’s Program in Peace, Mediation Conflict Research (formerly called

Aggression, Conflict Resolution, and Peacemaking), Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland

1999 - 2000 Donner Visiting Professor, Åbo Akademi University, Vasa & Åbo, Finland

1995 - 1996 Visiting Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland

1990 - 1996 Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Eckerd College, St Petersburg, FL 33711

1986 - 1990 Research Associate & Fieldwork Coordinator, Bureau of Applied Research in

Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

1977 - 1985 Associate Instructor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Conflict Studies, Conflict Resolution, Aggression, Violence, & War, Human Rights, Peacemaking

Processes & Peace Systems, Applied Anthropology, Zapotecs, Finland

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

In press Eisler, Riane & Douglas P. Fry, Nurturing Our Humanity: From Domination to Partnership

(provisional title). New York: Oxford University Press (expected 2019).

2015 Fry, Douglas P. (Ed.): War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and

Cultural Views. New York: Oxford University Press (Paperback Edition).

2013 Fry, Douglas P. (Ed.): War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and

Cultural Views. New York: Oxford University Press.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace. New York: Oxford University Press

(Paperback Edition).

2008 Kurtz, Lester (Editor-in-Chief), A. McAlister, A. Petit, A. Coker, B. Chasin, D. Ritter, D. Fry, J.

Oberg, J. Backwell, L. Lorentzen, M. Okamoto, & R. Elias (Associate Eds.): Encyclopedia of Violence,

Peace, and Conflict, Volumes 1-3, second edition. New York: Elsevier/Academic Press.

2007 Fry, Douglas P. Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace. New York: Oxford University Press.

2006 Fry, Douglas P. The Human Potential for Peace: An Anthropological Challenge to Assumptions

about War and Violence. New York: Oxford University Press.

2004 Kemp, Graham & Douglas P. Fry (Eds.): Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful

Societies around the World. New York: Routledge.

1997 Fry, Douglas P. & Kaj Björkqvist (Eds.): Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to

Violence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.

EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES

1998 Special Journal Issue: Anthropological Perspectives on Aggression. Douglas P. Fry, Guest Editor,

Aggressive Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 2.

1994 Special Journal Issue: On Aggression in Women and Girls: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Fry,

Douglas P. & Ayala Gabriel, Guest Editors, Sex Roles, Vol. 30, Nos. 3 & 4.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

Under Review. Coleman, P. T., Fry, D. P. et al. The Science of Sustaining Peace: Ten Preliminary Lessons

from the Human Peace Project. (submitted).

Under Review. Fry, Douglas P. & Keith, Charles. Social Complexity, Inequality, and War before Farming:

Congruence of Comparative Forager and Archaeological Data. (submitted).

In press. Fry, Douglas P. Sistemas pacíficos no beligerantes: Las implicaciones de al abolición de la

guerra. In Martín González de la Vara (Ed.) La Paz Alterada, pp. xx-xx.

In press. Fry, Douglas P. & Souillac, Geneviève. Human Nature, Peace, and War: The Modern Era. In

Ronald Edsforth (Ed.) A Cultural History of Peace, vol 6 (expected 2018).

2018. Fry, Douglas P. The Evolutionary Logic of Human Peaceful Behavior. In Peter Verbeek and

Benjamin A. Peters (Eds.) Peace Ethology: Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace, pp. 249-265. New

York: Wiley and Sons.

2018. Fry, Douglas P. Human Aggression from a Cross-Cultural Perspective. In Jane L. Ireland, Philip

Birch, & Carol A. Ireland (Eds.) The Routledge International Handbook on Aggression, 83-93. New York:

Routledge.

2018. Fry, Douglas P., Selections from ‘Cooperation for Survival: Creating a Global Peace System.’ In

Houston Wood (Ed.) Current Debates in Peace and Conflict Studies, pp. 191-196. New York: Oxford

University Press (reprint).

2017. Fry, Douglas P., Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Aggression. In Peter Sturmey (Ed.) The Wiley

Handbook of Violence and Aggression, pp. 1- 12. New York: Wiley (published online and in print).

2017. Anwar, Farida, Fry, Douglas P., & Grigaityte, Ingrida. Aggression Prevention and Reduction in

Diverse Cultures and Contexts. Current Opinions in Psychology (April 5).

2017. Söderberg, Patrik & Fry, Douglas P., Anthropological Aspects of Ostracism. In Kipling D. Williams

& and Steve A. Nida (Eds.) Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection, pp. 258-272. New York: Routledge.

2017. Fry, Douglas P., and Geneviève Souillac. The Original Partnership Societies: Evolved Propensities

for Equality, Prosociality, and Peace. Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 4 (1), article 4.

2017. Anwar, Farida, Fry, Douglas P., & Grigaityte, Ingrida, Reducing Aggression and Violence. In Brad

Bushman (Ed.) Aggression and Violence: A Social Psychological Perspective, pp. 307-320. New York:

Routledge.

2016. Souillac, Geneviève & Fry, Douglas P., Anthropology: Implications for Peace. In Oliver P.

Richmond, Sandra Pogodda, and Jasmine Ramovic (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook on Disciplinary and

Regional Approaches to Peace, pp. 69-81. New York: Palgrave Mcmillan.

2016. Douglas P. Fry & Souillac, Geneviève. Peace by Other Means: Reflections from the Indigenous

World. Common Knowledge, 22: 8-24.

2015. Souillac, Geneviève & Fry, Douglas P. The Philosophical Anthropology of Interculturality: A Vehicle

for Creating Inclusive Identities and Positive Peace. Thémata: Revista de Filosofía 52: 31-39.

2015. Fry, Douglas P., Book Review: Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers, edited by Mark

W. Allen and Terry L. Jones. American Anthropologist 117: 814-815.

2015. Fry, Douglas P., Conflict and War: Anthropological Aspects. International Encyclopedia of the

Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), pp. 614-619.

2015. Souillac, Geneviève & Fry, Douglas P., The Human Quest for Peace, Rights, and Justice:

Convergence of the Traditional and the Modern. In Johanna Seibt & Jesper Garsdal (Eds.) How is Global

Dialogue Possible? Foundational Research on Values, Conflicts, and Intercultural Thought, pp. 225-249.

Berlin: DeGruyter.

2014. Fry, Douglas P. & Söderberg, Patrik, Myths about Hunter-Gatherers Redux: Nomadic Forager

War and Peace. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research 6 (4): 255-266.

2014. Fry, Douglas P., Group Identity as an Obstacle and Catalyst of Peace. In Leckman, James F.,

Panter-Brick, C., & Salah, R., (Eds.) Formative Childhoods: A Path to Peace? The Transformative Power of

Children and Families, pp. 79-92. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2014. Morgan, Barak, Sunar, D., Carter, C. S., Leckman, J. F., Fry, D. P., Keverne, E. B., Kolassa, I.-T.,

Kumsta, R., and Olds, D., Human Biological Development and Peace: Genes, Brains, Safety, and Justice.

In Leckman, James F., Panter-Brick, C., & Salah, R. (Eds.) Formative Childhoods: A Path to Peace? The

Transformative Power of Children and Families, pp. 95-128. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

2014. Fry, D. P. Life without War. In D. P. Barash (Ed.) Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies,

pp. 162-172. New York: Oxford University Press (reprint).

2014. Souillac, Geneviève & Fry, Douglas P., Indigenous Lessons for Conflict Resolution. In Peter

Coleman, Morton Deutsch, & Eric Marcus (Eds.) The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and

Practice (Third Edition), pp. 602-622. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

2014. Fry, Douglas P. The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, Rough-and-Tumble Play, and the

Selection of Restraint in Human Aggression. In D. Narvaez, K. Valentino, A. Fuentes, J. McKenna, & P.

Gray (Eds.) Ancestral Landscapes in Human Evolution: Culture, Childrearing and Social Wellbeing, pp.

167-186. New York: Oxford University Press.

2014. Fry, Douglas P. Foreword. John Horgan, The End of War, pp. 11-17, paperback edition. San

Francisco: McSweeney’s.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. Dangerous Tribes: Review of Napoleon A. Chagnon’s Noble Savages. My Life

among Two Dangerous Tribes – The Yanomamö and the Anthropologists. European Journal of Sociology,

54:531-536.

2013. Fry, Douglas P., Obalenie Wojen. In Krzysztof Wodiczko (Ed.) Obalenie Wojen. Warsaw: Muzeum

Sztuki Wspótczesnej.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. & Souillac, Geneviève. The Relevance of Nomadic Forager Studies to Moral

Foundations Theory: Moral Education and Global Ethics in the Twenty-First Century. Journal of Moral

Education, 42: 346-359.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. & Söderberg, Patrik. Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and the

Implications for the Origins of War. Science, 341: 270-273.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. The Evolution of Cooperation: What’s War Got to Do With It? Reviews in

Anthropology, 42: 102-121.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Challenge of Achieving Scientific Objectivity.

In Douglas P. Fry (Ed.) War, Peace, and Human Nature: Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views,

pp. 1-21. New York: Oxford University Press.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. & Szala, Anna. The Evolution of Agonism: The Triumph of Restraint in Nonhuman

and Human Primates. In Douglas P. Fry (Ed.) War, Peace, and Human Nature: Convergence of

Evolutionary and Cultural Views, pp. 451-474. New York: Oxford University Press.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. Cooperation for Survival: Creating a Global Peace System. In Douglas P. Fry (Ed.)

War, Peace, and Human Nature: Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views, pp. 543-558. New

York: Oxford University Press.

2013 Fry, Douglas P. Governance and the Creation of Peace Systems. In Tom Rippon & Graham Kemp

(Eds.) Governance and Security, pp. 231-258. Victoria, BC: Agio.

2012 Fry, Douglas P. Life without War. Science, 336:879-884.

2012 Fry, Douglas P. Antropologinen näkökulma restoratiiviseen oikeuteen. Haaste, 3/2012:18-19.

2012 Fry, Douglas P. Ett liv utan krig. Fredsposten, 4:4-7.

2012 Fry, Douglas P. Abolition of War: An Agenda for Survival. In Krzysztof Wodiczko (Ed.) The

Abolition of War, pp. 116-137. London: Black Dog Press.

2012 Fry, Douglas P. & Miklikowska, Marta. Culture of Peace. In Morton Deutsch & Peter Coleman

(Eds.) Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace, 227-243. New York: Springer.

2012. Fry, Douglas P. Anthropological Examples of Peacemaking: Practice and Theory. In Susan Allen

Nan, Zachariah Mampily, & Andrea Bartoli (Eds.) Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory, Volume II, pp.

550-562. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Security International.

2012. Miklikowska, Marta & Fry, Douglas P. Natural Born Nonkillers: A Critique of the Killers-Have-

More-Kids Idea. In Daniel J. Christie & Joám Evans Pim (Eds.) Nonkilling Psychology, pp. 43-70. Honolulu:

Center for Global Nonkilling.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. Peace in Our Time: Steven Pinker Offers A Curiously Foreshortened Account of

Humanity’s Irenic Urges. Book Forum 18(4):34-35.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. Anthropology, War, and Peace: Hobbesian Beliefs within Science, Scholarship,

and Society. In Laura McNamara and Robert Rubinstein (Eds.) Dangerous Liaisons: Anthropologists and

the National Security State, pp. 185-201. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research Press.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. Human Nature: The Nomadic Forager Model. In Robert W. Sussman and C.

Robert Cloninger (Eds.) Origins of Altruism and Cooperation, pp. 227-247. New York: Springer.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. Peace. In Telmo Pievani (Ed.) The Future of the Earth. Italy: UTET.

2010 Fry, Douglas P., Gary Schober, & Kaj Björkqvist. Evolutionary Restraints on Lethal Aggression in

Animals and Humans. In Joám Evans Pim (Ed.) Nonkilling Societies, pp. 101-128. Honolulu: Center for

Global Nonkilling.

2010 Miklikowska, Marta, & Fry, Douglas P. Values for Peace: Ethnographic Lessons from the Semai of

Malaysia and the Mardu of Australia. Beliefs and Values: Understanding the Global Implications of

Human Nature 2 (2):124-137.

2010 Fry, Douglas P. Book review of Robert K. Dentan’s Overwhelming Terror. Asian Ethnology, 69 (1):

202-204.

2010 Ekholm Fry, Nina, & Fry, Douglas P. Aggression and Conflict Resolution among Females in

Nomadic Band Societies. In Karin Österman (Ed.) Indirect and Direct Aggression, pp. 344-355. New York:

Peter Lang.

2010 Fry, Douglas P. Prehistory: Archaeology of War. In Nigel Young (Editor-In-Chief): International

Encyclopedia of Peace, Conflict and Transformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Anthropological Insights for Creating Nonwarring Social Systems. Journal of

Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research 1:4-15.

2008 Fry, Douglas P., Bruce Bonta, & Karolina Baszarkiewicz. Learning from Extant Cultures of Peace.

In Joseph de Rivera (Ed.): Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace, pp. 11-26. New York: Springer.

2008 Baszarkiewicz, Karolina, & Douglas P. Fry. Peaceful Societies. In Lester Kurtz et al. (Eds.): The

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict, Second Edition, Volume 2, pp. 1557-1570. New York:

Elsevier/Academic Press.

2008 Fry, Douglas P. Aggression and Altruism. In Lester Kurtz et al. (Eds.): The Encyclopedia of

Violence, Peace, and Conflict, Second Edition, Volume 1, pp. 14-28. New York: Elsevier/Academic Press.

2008 Fry, Douglas P. Killer Apes, Cannibals, and Coprolites: Projecting Mayhem onto the Past. In E.

Angeloni, M. P. Parker, & L. Arenson (Eds.): Roundtable Viewpoints: Physical Anthropology. Hightstown,

NJ: McGraw-Hill. (Reprint)

2008 Fry, Douglas P. The Earliest Evidence of War. In E. Angeloni, M. P. Parker, and L. Arenson (Eds.):

Roundtable Viewpoints: Physical Anthropology. Hightstown, NJ: McGraw-Hill. (Reprint)

2007 Schmitt, D.P. et al. The geographic distribution of Big Five personality traits: Patterns and

profiles of human self-description across 56 nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38, 173-212.

2006 Bonta, Bruce & Douglas P. Fry, Lessons for the Rest of Us: Learning from Peaceful Societies. In

Mari Fitzduff & Chris E. Stout (Eds.): The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace,

Volume 1: Nature vs. Nurture. pp. 175-210. Westport, CN: Praeger.

2006 Fry, Douglas P. Reciprocity: The Foundation Stone of Morality. In Melanie Killen & Judith

Smetana (Eds.): Handbook of Moral Development, pp. 399-422. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

2005 Fry, Douglas P. Rough-and-Tumble Social Play in Humans. In A. D. Pellegrini & Peter K. Smith

(Eds.): The Nature of Play in Great Apes and Humans, pp. 54-85. New York: Guilford Press.

2004 Fry, Douglas P. Multiple Paths to Peace among the La Paz Zapotec. In Graham Kemp & Douglas

P. Fry (eds.): Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World. New York:

Routledge, pp. 73-87.

2004 Fry, Douglas P. Conclusion: Learning from Peaceful Societies. In Graham Kemp & Douglas P. Fry

(eds.): Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies around the World. New York:

Routledge, pp. 185-204.

2004 Schmitt, David P. et al. Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects

of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person’s Partner. Journal of

Personality and Social Psychology 86:560-584.

2004 Schmitt, David P. et al. Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural

Regions: Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology,

35: 367-402.

2003 Fry, Douglas P. Cultural Summary: Zapotec. Human Relations Area Files, eHRAF, Zapotec,

Document Number 1. New Haven, CT: Human Relations Area File (Reprint).

2003 Schmitt, David P., et al. Universal Sex Differences in the Desire for Sexual Variety: Tests from 52

Nations, 6 Continents, and 13 Islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 85:85-104.

2003 Schmitt, David P., et al. Are Men Universally More Dismissing than Women? Gender Differences

in Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions. Personal Relationships 10:307-331.

2001 Fry, Douglas P. Aggression Prevention in Cross-Cultural Perspective: From Finns to Zapotecs. In

Manuela Martinez (Ed.): Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on Its Victims. London:

Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 313-321.

2001 Fry, Douglas P. Developing Alternatives to War: Insights from Anthropological Research. In

Manuela Martinez (Ed.): Prevention and Control of Aggression and the Impact on Its Victims. London:

Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 339-346.

2001 Fry, Douglas P. Is Violence Getting Too Much Attention? Cross-Cultural Findings on the Ways

People Deal with Conflict. In J. Martin Ramirez & Deborah Richardson (Eds.): Cross-Cultural Approaches

to Aggression and Reconciliation. Huntington, NY: Nova, pp.123-148.

2001 Fry, Douglas P. Anthropological Perspectives on Aggression: Sex Differences and Cultural

Variation. In David P. Barash (Ed.): Understanding Violence. London: Allyn and Bacon, pp. 182-192

(reprint).

2000 Fry, Douglas P. Conflict Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective. In Filippo Aureli & Frans de

Waal (Eds.): Natural Conflict Resolution. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 334-351.

2000 Fry, Douglas P. “Respect for the Rights of Others is Peace”: Learning Aggression versus

Nonaggression among the Zapotec. In Peter K. Smith & A. D. Pellegrini (Eds.): Psychology of Education:

Major Themes, Volume IV, Social Behaviour and the School Peer Group. London: Routledge/Falmer, pp.

510-535 (reprint).

1999 Fry, Douglas P. Peaceful Societies. In Lester Kurtz (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and

Conflict. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 719-733.

1999 Fry, Douglas P. Aggression and Altruism. In Lester Kurtz (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Violence,

Peace, and Conflict. San Diego: Academic Press, pp.17-33.

1998 Fry, Douglas P. Anthropological Perspectives on Aggression: Sex Differences and Cultural

Variation. Aggressive Behavior 24:81-95.

1998 Fry, Douglas P. The Web of Violence: From the Interpersonal to Global (book review). Aggressive

Behavior 24:471-474.

1998 Fry, Douglas P. Reflections of a Sage (Book Review of Panikkar’s Cultural Disarmament). Peace

and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 4:81-82.

1997 Fry, Douglas P. & Kaj Björkqvist. Introduction: Conflict Resolution Themes. In Douglas P. Fry and

Kaj Björkqvist (Eds.): Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence, pp. 3-7. Mahwah,

NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.

1997 Fry, Douglas P. & C. Brooks Fry. Culture and Conflict Resolution Models: Exploring Alternatives to

Violence. In Fry, Douglas P. and Kaj Björkqvist (Eds.): Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution:

Alternatives to Violence, pp. 9-36. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.

1997 Björkqvist, Kaj & Douglas P. Fry. Conclusions: Alternatives to Violence. In Douglas P. Fry and Kaj

Björkqvist (Eds.): Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence, pp. 235-241.

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.

1997 Wiesel, Elie & Douglas P. Fry. On Respecting Others and Preventing Hate: A Conversation with

Elie Wiesel. In Fry, Douglas P. and Kaj Björkqvist (Eds.): Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution:

Alternatives to Violence, 243-254. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.

1996 Fry, Douglas P. Conflict and Aggression. In David Levinson & Melvin Ember (Eds.): The

Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, volume 1, pp. 237-241. New York: Henry Holt.

1996 The Zapotec. In The Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Volume 8: Middle America and the

Caribbean. (Sponsored by the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University). New York: G. K. Hall & Co.

1994 Fry, Douglas P. Maintaining Social Tranquility: Internal and External Loci of Aggression Control.

In Leslie Sponsel and Thomas Gregor (Eds.): The Anthropology of Peace and Nonviolence, pp. 133-154.

Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

1994 Hines, Nicole J. & Douglas P. Fry. Indirect Modes of Aggression among Women of Buenos Aires,

Argentina. Sex Roles 30:213-236.

1994 Fry, Douglas P. & Ayala Gabriel. Preface: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Aggression.

Sex Roles 30:165-167.

1993 Fry, Douglas P. The Intergenerational Transmission of Disciplinary Practices and Approaches to

Conflict. Human Organization 52:176-185.

1993 Fry, Douglas P. Conflict Resolution: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Book Review). Aggressive

Behavior 19:313-315.

1992 Fry, Douglas P. "Respect for the Rights of Others is Peace": Learning Aggression Versus Non-

Aggression among the Zapotec. American Anthropologist 94:621-639.

1992 Fry, Douglas P. Female Aggression among the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico. In Kaj Björkqvist and

Pirkko Niemelä (Eds.): Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female Aggression, pp. 187-199. Orlando:

Academic Press.

1990 Fry, Douglas P. Play Aggression among Zapotec Children: Implications for the Practice

Hypothesis. Aggressive Behavior 16:321-340.

1988 Fry, Douglas P. Intercommunity Differences in Aggression among Zapotec children. Child

Development 59:1008-1019.

1987 Fry, Douglas P. Differences Between Playfighting and Serious Fighting among Zapotec Children.

Ethology and Sociobiology 7(4): 285-306.

1987 Fry, Douglas P. What Human Sociobiology Has to Offer Economic Anthropology and Vice Versa.

Journal of Social and Biological Structures 10:37-51.

1985 Fry, Douglas P. Utilizing Human Capacities for Survival in the Nuclear Age. Bulletin of Peace

Proposals 16:159-166.

1980 Fry, Douglas P. The Evolution of Aggression and the Level of Selection Controversy. Aggressive

Behavior 6:69-89.

DISSERTATION

1986 Fry, Douglas P. An Ethological Study of Aggression and Aggression Socialization among Zapotec

Children of Oaxaca, Mexico. (563 pp., 2 volumes) Ann Arbor: University Microfilms.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Journal of Moral Education (appointment began January 2012, ongoing).

Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research, Co-Editor-in-Chief (January 2008 – April 2016).

Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, Monograph Series (appointment began 2014, ongoing).

Aggressive Behavior, Official Journal of the International Society for Research on Aggression (July 2000 –

January 2013).

Internet site: www.peacefulsocieties.org (academic reviewer, on-going).

Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures (Kluwer Academic) Advisory

Board, 2004.

Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace and Human Rights, 1999-2004.

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE ROLES

2018 Fry, Douglas P. “Social Complexity, Inequality, and War Before Farming: Congruence of

Comparative Forager and Archaeological Data.” Social Inequality Before Farming? Conference at the

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, January 21-

23.

2017 Fry, Douglas P. “The Core Dynamics of Sustainable Peace: Non-Warring Peace Systems.” Annual

Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Birmingham, AL, October 25-28.

2017 Maddox, Benjamin & Fry, Douglas P. “Key Variables for Peace among the Iroquois.” Annual

Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Birmingham, AL, October 25-28.

2017 Reuter, Tina K., Fry, Douglas P., Rountree, Ajanet, Sherwood, Nicholas R., Hicks-Stewart, D.

Antranet, Beard, Caitlin, & Smith, David J. “UAB Peace and Human Rights Studies: Roundtable

Discussion.” Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Birmingham, AL, October

25-28.

2017 Fry, Douglas P. “Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century: From a War System to a Peace System.”

Baltic Summer School of Anthropology, Riga, Latvia, August 23-27.

2017 Fry, Douglas P. “Designing Peace: The Roles of Interdependence and Cooperation.” Baltic Summer

School of Anthropology, Riga, Latvia, August 23-27.

2017 Coleman, Peter T., Fisher-Yoshida, Beth, Fisher, Joshua, Fry, Douglas P., Liebovitch, L.,

Vandenbroeck, P., Geller, A., & Donahue, Jaclyn. “A Model of Sustainable Peace: Visualizing Intergroup

Dynamics through System’s Attractors and Causal Loop Diagramming.” 30th Annual Conference of the

International Association of Conflict Management, Berlin, Germany, July 11.

2017 Souillac, Geneviève & Fry, Douglas P. “Non-Warring Peace Systems as a form of Global

Peacebuilding.” Presentation at the 12th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences,

Hiroshima, Japan, July 26-28.

2017 Fry, Douglas P. Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century: From a War System to a Peace System.

Keynote Presentation, The Conflict Conference, University of Texas at Austin, April 7-9.

2016 Fry, Douglas P. Peace Systems and Sustainable Peace. Presentation at the Peace Mapping

Workshop, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 6-8.

2016 Fry, Douglas P. Peaceful Societies, Peace Systems, and Nonviolence. Presentation at the meetings

of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Nelson, BC, Canada, September 22-24.

2016 Fisher-Yoshida, Beth, Donahue, Jaclyn, & Fry, Douglas P. Peace-Mapping through Visualization and

Dynamic Systems Modeling: A Scientific Approach to Generating Sustainable Peace in Dialogue with

Indigenous Peoples from Asia. Side-event workshop, 15th Session of the United Nations Permanent

Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York, NY, May 9-20.

2016 Fry, Douglas P. The Original Caring Democracies: Equality and Peaceful-Prosocial Predilections.

Summit Series: Cultivating a Culturally Sustainable Self, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA,

April 27-30.

2016 Fry, Douglas P. Peace Talk: The Science of Peace. Invited public lecture and webinar broadcast,

Birmingham Progressive Christian Alliance and International House of Peace, Birmingham, AL, April 21.

2016 Fry, Douglas P. Implications of Nomadic Forager Research for Understanding the Origins of War.

Earth Sciences Colloquium Series (No. 5), University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, April 8.

2016 Fry, Douglas P. Nonviolence in Anthropological Perspective: Peaceful Societies, Peace Systems,

and the Quest for Rights, Equity, and Justice. Gandhi/King Conference, Memphis, TN, April 8-9.

2015. Fry, Douglas P. Shifting Towards a Peace Paradigm through Peace Systems and Other Means.

Invited speaker at the Columbia University Seminar “The Problem of Peace,” New York, NY, October 22.

2015 Fry, Douglas P. & Souillac, G. Why Human Nature Matters: Violence, Myths, Discourse, and

Politics in Anthropology. Presentation at the 9th Pan-European Conference on International Relations:

The Worlds of Violence, Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy, September 23-26.

2015 Fry, Douglas P. Toward Resolving the Forager War/Peace Debate: Assessing Relevance, Logic, and

Rigor. Plenary Session Presentation at the Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies

(CHAGs 11), Vienna, Austria, September 7 -11.

2015 Fry, Douglas P., The Origins of War: Implications from Nomadic Forager Research. Guest Speaker.

Sigma Xi Seminar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, March 19.

2015 Fry, Douglas P. Interdisciplinary Moral Forum: The Self, Motivation, and Virtue Project, Core

Project Team Member and Presentation Referee, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, March 12-14.

2015 Fry, Douglas P. The Creation and Maintenance of Non-Warring Peace Systems. Invited Speaker.

Pennsylvania State University at Altoona, Altoona, PA, February 24.

2015 Fry, Douglas P., Invited Attendee at The Abolition of War Conference, New York, NY, February 20-

21.

2014 Fry, Douglas P., War, Peace, & Human Nature: Implications from Nomadic Forager Research.

Guest Speaker. University College London, London, UK, November 26.

2014 Fry, Douglas P., Michocan, Mexico, Sistemas pacíficos no beligerantes: Las implicaciones de al

abolición de la guerra. XXXVI Coloquio de Antropolgía e Historia Regionale, October 22-24.

2014 Fry, Douglas P. Co-Organized the workshop called The Biosocial Bases for Nonkilling and

Nonviolent Behavior, Leiden, The Netherlands, May 19-23.

2014 Fry, Douglas P. A New Paradigm: Nonkilling and Nonviolence as the Default, at The Biosocial Bases

for Nonkilling and Nonviolent Behavior, Leiden, The Netherlands, May 19-23.

2014 Fry, Douglas P. The Creation of Non-Warring Peace Systems as a Form of Peace Building, invited

speaker at the University of Manchester, April 4.

2014 Fry, Douglas P. Organized the conference called The Abolition of War, Vasa, Finland, February 1.

2014 Fry, Douglas P. The Abolition of War and the Creation and of Peace Systems. The Abolition of War,

Vasa, Finland, February 1.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. Participant at the E. Strüngmann Forum, Formative Childhoods: A Path to Peace?

Frankfurt, Germany, October 13-18.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. & Söderberg, Patrik. Untangling War and Homicide: A Case-by-Case Analysis of

Lethal Aggression in a Sample of 21 Nomadic Forager Societies. 10th Conference of Hunter-and-

Gatherer Societies, Liverpool, UK, June 25-28.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. & Söderberg, Patrik. Are Humans Innately Nasty? Public Lecture at the 10th

Conference of Hunter-and-Gatherer Societies, Liverpool, UK, June 25-28.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. Methodological Tips and Reflections on Research. Lecture presented at the Science

Conference at Kazimierza Wielkiego University, Bydgoszczy, Poland, May 24.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. Creating Peace Systems. Lecture presented at the Science Conference at

Kazimierza Wielkiego University, Bydgoszczy, Poland, May 24.

2013. Fry, Douglas P. Socio-Cultural Obstacles and Catalysts of Peace. Plenary talk at an International

Workshop on Obstacles and Catalysts of Peaceful Behavior. March 18-22. Leiden, The Netherlands.

2013 Fry, Douglas P. Co-Organizer of the Interdisciplinary Workshop: Obstacles and Catalysts of Peaceful

Behavior. March 18-22, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2012. Fry, Douglas P. The Relevance of Nomadic Forager Studies to Foundations Theory and Moral

Development. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Society for Moral Education, November 7-10. San

Antonio, TX.

2012. Fry, Douglas P. Social Control through Ostracism. Plenary talk at an International Workshop on

Ostracism. May 21-25, 2012. Leiden, The Netherlands.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. Creating Nonkilling Society: The Interaction of Interdependence, Cooperation, and

Superordinate Goals. Paper presented at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

November 16-20. Montreal, Canada.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. Discussant at the symposium Challenging the Legacy of Innate Depravity: The New

Tidemark of the Nonkilling Paradigm. Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. November

16-20. Montreal, Canada.

2011. Fry, Douglas P. The Creation and Maintenance of Non-Warring Peace Systems. Presentation at the

XXXIII CICA (International Colloquium on the Brain and Aggression). September 22-24. Rome, Italy.

2011 Fry, Douglas P. The Construction of Peace. Plenary lecture at the International Symposium

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Art and War. August 8-10. Yokohama, Japan.

2011 Fry, Douglas P. Peace Systems. Invited lecture at The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (The

research bureau of the Finnish Parliament). June 21. Helsinki, Finland.

2010 Fry, Douglas P. Leading Co-Organizer of the Interdisciplinary Workshop: Aggression and

Peacemaking in an Evolutionary Context. October 18-22. Leiden, The Netherlands.

2010 Miklikowska, Marta & Fry, Douglas P. Values for Peace. Poster & Mini-Presentation at the

workshop: Aggression and Peacemaking in an Evolutionary Context. October 18-22. Leiden, The

Netherlands.

2010 Fry, Douglas P. The Evolutionary Environment, Rough-and-Tumble Play, and the Selection of

Restraint in Human Aggressive Behavior. Plenary talk presented at the workshop: Aggression and

Peacemaking in an Evolutionary Context. October 18-22. Leiden, The Netherlands.

2010 Fry, Douglas P. Invited lecture on The Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness, Rough-and-

Tumble Play, and the Selection of Restraint in Human Aggression, the University of Notre Dame National

Symposium: Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the Environment of Evolutionary

Adaptedness. October 10-12, Notre Dame, IN.

2010 Fry, Douglas P. Invited lecture on Peaceful Societies and Non-Warring Social Systems: Insights

from Anthropology at The Catholic University of America, March 20, 2010. Washington DC.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Invited talk on Aggression and Human Nature at the Interdisciplinary International

Lorentz Center Workshop: Context, Causes, and Consequences of Conflict, 31 August- 4 September.

Leiden, Netherlands.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Anthropological Perspectives on Sustainable Peace. The Earth Institute: Strategic

Meeting on Sustainable Peace. New York, NY, 30 March.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Anthropology: In the Name of Security. Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa

Fe, NM, 18-21 March.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Human Nature: The Nomadic Forager Model. Invited Conference-Workshop on

Man the Hunted: Sociality, Altruism, and Well-Being, St. Louis, MO, 12-14, March.

2009 Fry, Douglas P. Invited to present on Reconciliation and Recovery after War. Conference on

Rescue, Recovery, and Religion: Humanitarian Aid and Spiritual Care in Times of Crises, Nagoya, Japan,

27-28 February.

2008 Fry, Douglas P. Conflict and Its Resolution in Peaceful Societies: Lessons from Anthropology.

Plenary presentation at Understanding Conflicts conference. Aarhus, Denmark, 18-23 August.

2008 Fry, Douglas P. An Evolutionary Anthropological Consideration of Self-Constraint as a Form of

Aggression Control. International Society for Research on Aggression, Budapest, Hungary, 8-13 July.

2007 Fry, Douglas P. We Are Warlike because We Are Warlike. American Anthropological Association,

28 November - 2 December, Washington DC.

2006 Fry, Douglas P. A Cross-Cultural View of Revenge: Applying the Reciprocity Principle. Invited

presentation at The Biology of Trust in the Resolution of Conflict--A Nexus Project Workshop co-

sponsored by the Consortium on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, Living Links, and The Gruter

Institute, Atlanta, GA, 18-21 October.

2006 Fry, Douglas P. Invited presentation: Extant Cultures of Peace and What We Can Learn from

Them: Non-Warring Societies, Unwarlike Societies, and Peace Systems. Building Cultures of Peace

Conference, Worcester, MA, 13-15 October.

2006 Fry, Douglas P. Re-Thinking the Evolution of War: The Nomadic Forager Model. Evolutionary

Study Group Seminar, Helsinki, Finland, 29 March.

2006 Fry, Douglas P. The “Man the Warrior” Model of Human Nature and the Past. American

Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO, 16-20 February.

2004 Fry, Douglas P. The Human Potential for Nonviolence: Lessons from Anthropology. Keynote

Address, Crime Reduction Conference, Heurka Science Center, Tikkurila, Finland, 7–8 October.

2004 Fry, Douglas P. Faulty Assumptions and Muddled Categories: Rethinking Yanomamö and Hunter-

Gatherer Models of Warfare in the Evolutionary Past. International Society for Research on Aggression,

Santorini, Greece, 18–23 September.

2004 Fry, Douglas P. An Evolutionary Perspective on Blood Revenge: Updating the Daly and Wilson

Interpretation. International Society for Research on Aggression, Santorini, Greece, 18–23 September.

2004 Kemp, Graham & Fry, Douglas. Lessons from Peaceful Societies. International Society for

Research on Aggression, Santorini, Greece, 18–23 September.

2003 Fry, Douglas P. The Use and Abuse of Peaceful Societies by Anthropologists and Others.

American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 19-23 November.

2001 Fry, Douglas P. & Takala, Jukka-Pekka, Who’s Afraid of Helsinki at Night? Conference of the

European Sociological Association, Helsinki, Finland, 28 August – 1 September.

2000 Served as the moderator and commentator for the Symposium “Imaginative Geography,

Identity, and Cultures of Peace in the Twenty-First Century” at the meetings of the International Peace

Research Association, 5-9 August 2000, Tampere, Finland.

2000 Fry, Douglas P. From Finns to Zapotecs: Aggression Prevention in Cross-Cultural Perspective. The

International Society for Research on Aggression, Valencia, Spain, 9-14 July.

2000 Fry, Douglas P. Developing Alternatives to War: Insights from Anthropological Research. The

International Society for Research on Aggression, Valencia, Spain, 9-14 July.

2000 Organized the Invited Symposium “The Prevention and Control of Aggression: Cultural

Perspectives” for the meetings of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Valencia, Spain,

9-14 July.

2000 Fry, Douglas P. Cross-Cultural Examples of Conflict Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, and

Adjudication. The XV meeting of the International Colloquium on the Brain and Aggression, Madrid,

Spain, 7-9 July.

1999 Fry, Douglas P. On the Possibility of Abolishing War. American Anthropological Association,

Chicago, IL, 17-21 November.

1999 Discussant for the symposium: Timely Negotiations: The Evolutionary Implications of Conflict

Resolution in Human and Non-Human Primates, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 17-

21 November.

1998 Fry, Douglas P. Applying Westermarck’s Savvy to Understanding BioCultural Aspects of

Playfighting in Human Children. Westermarck Society Conference: Marriage, Morality, and Emotions—

—Updating Edward Westermarck, Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 November.

1998 Fry, Douglas P. Sex Differences in Aggression: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Naiseus ja Väkivalta

(Femaleness and Aggression Conference). University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 5 November.

1996 Fry, Douglas P. Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Conflict and Child-rearing in Two Zapotec

Communities. American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL, 20-23 November.

1995 Fry, Douglas P. Searching for Patterns in Nonviolence: Zapotec Data and Donald Black’s Social

Control Model. American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, 15-19 November.

1995 Fry, Douglas P. Alternative to Violence: Anthropological Perspectives. Invited Address at

Conference entitled: “Alternatives to Violence: Global Interdependence and the Shaping of the 21st

Century.” Newark, NJ, 6 April.

1994 Fry, Douglas P. Conflict, Peace, and Human Rights. American Anthropological Association,

Atlanta, GA, 30 November - 4 December. (Invited to take part in the AAA Presidential Session: Human

Rights and Peace: The Role of Anthropology and Anthropologists).

1994 Wisniewski, Jennifer L. & Douglas P. Fry. Experimental Influences on Environmental Knowledge

and Worldview. American Anthropological Association, Atlanta, GA, 30 November - 4 December.

1994 Fry, Douglas P. Commentary on Donald Black’s ‘Social Structure of Right and Wrong.’ American

Society of Criminology, Miami, FL, 9-12 November. Invited to take part in “Author Meets Critics” panel.

1994 Co-Organized and Co-Chaired (with Kaj Björkqvist) a three-part Symposium and Roundtable

Discussion entitled: "Conflict Resolution." Presented paper in the symposium entitled: The 'Reverse

Debate': A Method for Enhancing Communication, Reducing Issue Polarization, and Discovering

Common Ground. International Society for Research on Aggression, Delray Beach, FL 6-10 July.

1994 Presented a second paper in the symposium entitled: Expanding An Individual's Conflict

Resolution Repertoire: Principles and An Illustrative Application. International Society for Research on

Aggression, Delray Beach, FL 6-10 July.

1994 Co-Organized and Co-Chaired (with Travers Ichinose) a two-part Symposium entitled: "Ecological

Beliefs and Behaviors: A Part of Nature or Apart from Nature." Presented paper at the symposium

entitled: The New Environmentalism: Real and Ideal Aspects. Society for Applied Anthropology, Cancun,

Quintana Roo, Mexico, 13-17 April.

1993 Fry, Douglas P. The Relationship of Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge to Environmental

Behavior. American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 17-21 November.

1993 Co-Chaired symposium entitled: "Female Aggression." Presented paper in the symposium by

Douglas P. Fry & Nicole J. Hines. Sex Differences in Indirect and Direct Aggression in Argentina. III

European Congress of Psychology, Tampere, Finland, 4-9 July.

1993 Fry, Douglas P. & James N. Welch. Anthropological Perspectives on Teaching Conflict Resolution.

Florida Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, FL, 26-28 March.

1993 Fry, Douglas P. & Nicole J. Hines. Indirect Aggression among Argentine Women. Society for

Applied Anthropology, San Antonio, TX, 10-14 March.

1993 Fry, Douglas P. Illustration of a BioSocial Paradigm: Play Aggression in Humans. American

Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, MA, 11-16 February.

1992 Fry, Douglas P. & James N. Welch. Beliefs about Human Nature and Conflict: Implications for

Peace Education. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, 2-6 December.

1991 Organized and Chaired a symposium entitled: "Female Aggression: Motives, Strategies and

Tactics." Presented a paper at this symposium entitled: Aggressive Behavior in Zapotec Women and

Girls. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 20-24 November.

1991 Served as Discussant for the symposium entitled: Anthropological Perspectives on Conflict

Resolution, Southwestern Anthropological Association, Tucson, AZ, 11-13 April.

1990 Fry, Douglas P. Aggressive Interaction among Zapotec Children in Two Different Micro-Cultural

Environments. International Society for Research on Aggression, Ninth Biennial World Meeting, Banff,

Alberta, Canada, 12-17 June.

1990 Fry, Douglas P. The Intergenerational Transmission of Conflict Resolution Styles in a Non-

Western Culture. International Society for Research on Aggression, Ninth Biennial World Meeting, Banff,

Alberta, Canada, 12-17 June.

1990 Fry, Douglas P. The Use of Cooperative Learning Techniques within a Conflict Resolution

Paradigm. Southwest Regional Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution, Albuquerque, NM,

27-29 April.

1990 Organized and Chaired a symposium entitled: "Anthropological Perspectives on the

Maintenance of Peace and Conflict Resolution." Presented paper at this symposium entitled:

Disciplinary Practices in Two Zapotec Communities: Learning to be Peaceful or Violent. (Symposium

sponsored by the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences' Commission on the

Study of Peace). Southwestern Anthropological Association, Long Beach, CA, April 12-15.

1989 Fry, Douglas P. The Interplay of Cultural and Biological Influences on Human Playfighting:

Insights from an Observational Study of Zapotec Children. International Society for the Study of

Behavioural Development, Jyväskylä, Finland, 9-12 July.

1989 Fry, Douglas P. Capitalizing on Culturally-Appropriate Interpersonal Dynamics to Enhance

Literacy among Mexican-American Students. Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, 5-9, April.

1988 Co-organized and co-chaired a symposium entitled: "Perspectives on Conflict Resolution."

Presented paper at this symposium entitled: Intergenerational Transmission of Conflict Resolution Styles

in Two Zapotec Communities. American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ, 16-20 November.

1986 Co-organized and co-chaired a symposium at the meetings of the International Society for

Research on Aggression entitled "Fighting and Playfighting" in Chicago, IL, 23-27 July. Presented a paper

at this symposium entitled: Fighting versus Playfighting among Zapotec Indian Children.

1985 Fry, Douglas P. The Socialization of Aggression in Zapotec Indian Children. Mexican Studies

Meeting at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 30 March.

1985 Fry, Douglas P. The Utility of Ethological Methods in Anthropological Studies of Children.

American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., 4-8 December.

1982 Fry, Douglas P. An Inclusive Fitness Model for Interpreting Human Infanticide. International

Society for Research on Aggression, Mexico City, Mexico, 13-16 August.

1981 Fry, Douglas P. Human Infanticide: Support for an Inclusive Fitness Model. American Association

of Physical Anthropologists, Detroit, MI, 22-25 April.

1981 Organized and chaired a symposium entitled: "The Application of Formal Economic Models in

Anthropology," at the meetings of the Central States Anthropological Society, Cincinnati, OH, 16-18

April. Presented a paper at the symposium entitled: “Formal Economic Anthropology and Sociobiology --

Do the Similarities Outweigh the Differences?”

1980 Fry, Douglas P. Human Infanticide Reinterpreted. Central States Anthropological Society. Ann

Arbor, MI, 9-12 April.

1978 Fry, Douglas P. An Argument Against Group Selection Explanations for Ritualized Aggression.

International Society for Research on Aggression. Washington D.C., 22-23 September.

1977 Fry, Douglas P. From Ik to Kamikaze: The Sociobiology of Selfishness and Altruism. American

Anthropological Association, Houston, TX, 29 November -3 December.

GRANTS RECEIVED

2017 Advanced Consortium on Conflict, Cooperation, and Complexity: The Peace Mapping Project,

$14,000, from Columbia University, AC4, The Earth Institute.

2016 Advanced Consortium on Conflict, Cooperation, and Complexity: The Peace Mapping Project,

$13,000, from Columbia University, AC4, The Earth Institute.

2013 Lorentz Center Workshop Grant: The Biosocial Bases of Nonkilling and Nonviolent Behavior (with

Joám Evans Pim, Co-Organizer) 7,000 Euros (approximately $9,500 at time of funding) from the Lorentz

Center.

2013 Institute for Economics and Peace: The Biosocial Bases of Nonkilling and Nonviolent Behavior (with

Joám Evans Pim, Co-Organizer) 5,000 Euros (approximately $6,800 at time of funding) from the Lorentz

Center.

2012 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Workshop Grant: Obstacles and Catalysts

of Peaceful Behavior (with Peter Verbeek, Co-Applicant). 15,000 Euros (approximately $20,000 at time

of funding) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

2012 Lorentz Center Workshop Grant: Obstacles and Catalysts of Peaceful Behavior (with Peter

Verbeek, Co-Organizer) 12,000 Euros (approximately $15,600 at time of funding) from the Lorentz

Center.

2010 Lorentz Center Workshop Grant: Aggression and Peacemaking in an Evolutionary Context:

Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 20,000 Euros (approximately $30,000 at time of funding) from the Lorentz

Center and the Dutch National Academy of Sciences.

2010 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Workshop Grant: Aggression and

Peacemaking in an Evolutionary Context: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 11,000 Euros (approximately

$15,000 at time of funding) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

2003-2006 National Science Foundation Research Grant: “A Cross-Cultural Study of Conflict Prevention,

Resolution, and Reconciliation” (0313670)

2000–2001 United States Institute of Peace: “‘The Potential for Peace’: Anthropological Book Project”

(USIP-023-99F).

1997-1998 National Science Foundation Research Grant: “Patterns of Dealing with Conflict and

Aggression in Finnish Families and Society” (SBR-9710071)

1990-1995 Faculty Development Grants, Eckerd College (various grants received for computer

equipment, research, teaching projects, & travel)

1989 Office of International Programs, Foreign Travel Grants Program, University of Arizona

1988 Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, pilot project grant

1984-1985 Indiana University Skomp Fellowship for dissertation preparation (#26-235-77)

1981-1983 National Science Foundation, grant for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research:

“Socialization of Aggression among the Zapotec of Oaxaca, Mexico” (#81-17478)

1981-1983 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Grant for field research in Mexico

(#4117)

AWARDS

2015 Peace Educator/Scholar Award, Peace and Justice Studies Association

2005 Åbo Akademi University’s Harry Elvings Teaching Excellence Award and Stipend

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2014-present University of Alabama at Birmingham, courses taught: Advanced Peace Studies; Power

of Nonviolence; Anthropology of Gender, Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective; Victims,

Villains, and Vigilantes; Peaceful Societies & Peace Systems; Sustainable Peace Seminar.

1995-2014 Åbo Akademi University, Vasa, courses taught: Conflict Resolution in a Cross-present

Cultural Perspective; Anthropological Perspectives on Conflict, Aggression, and Peacemaking; Conflict

Resolution I; Conflict Resolution II; Research Methods in Anthropology; Cross-Cultural Perspectives on

Human Sexuality; Conflict Studies in Anthropological Perspective; Cultures in Contact: Cross-Cultural

Psychology; Socialization and Development; Finnish Culture and Society; Social Behavior; Play;

Developmental Psychology from an Evolutionary Perspective; The Power of Nonviolence; Introduction to

Negotiation & Mediation Techniques; Peaceful Societies & Peace Systems, Introduction to Peace &

Conflict Studies; The Abolition of War.

1990-1995 Anthropology, Comparative Cultures Collegium, Eckerd College, courses taught: Conflict

Studies; Cultural Ecology; Development Anthropology; Physical Anthropology; Human Sexuality; Cultures

of Oaxaca, Mexico; Latin American Area Studies; Introduction to Anthropology; Introduction to Primate

Studies; U.S. Area Studies; Living in the USA; Western Heritage II.

1993 Anthropology Department, University of South Florida, Tampa. Guest Professor:

Graduate Seminar in Physical Anthropology

1988 Prescott College, Tucson: Special Seminar on Human Evolution

1987 Pima Community College, Tucson: Alternatives to Global Violence (summer class for

high school students); Human Origins and Prehistory

1977-1985 Anthropology Department, Indiana University (six semesters of teaching activity):

Human Origins & Prehistory (teaching assistant); Bioanthropology (teaching assistant); Bioanthropology

(full teaching responsibility); Laboratory in Bioanthropology (full teaching responsibility)

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

The Society of the Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Association

Peace & Justice Studies Association

International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research

SELECTED MEDIA & INTERVIEWS (updated through 2017)

2017 “Von Kultur aus gewalttätig” by Dirk Husemann in the leading German Science magazine Bild der

Wissenschaft (January 2017, pages 54-59).

2017 “Human Nature: Is Violence Embedded in Our DNA?” by Josh Gabbatiss, Sapiens (July 12), a

publication of the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. This article is available online:

https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/human-violence-evolution/.

2016 Natural Born Killers: Humans Predisposed to Murder, Study Suggests. 9/28. The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/28/natural-born-killers-humans-predisposed-to-

study-suggests

2016 De Oorsprong van Oorlog (The Origin of War), Wetenschap, 27 February (the science section of the

major Dutch newspaper, De Volkskrant).

2016 10,000-Year-Old Massacre Does NOT Bolster Claim that War Is Innate. Scientific American,

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/10-000-year-old-massacre-does-not-bolster-claim-that-

war-is-innate/

2016 What a 10,000-year-old Massacre Can Tell Us about the Origins of Violence. Los Angeles Times,

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-early-human-violence-20160121-story.html

2016 Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers. New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/prehistoric-massacre-ancient-humans-lake-turkana-

kenya.html

2016 Attack 10,000 Years Ago is Earliest Known Act of War. Science News.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/attack-10000-years-ago-earliest-known-act-warfare

(print version: Massacre Hints at Early Origin of War, Science News, vol 189 (4): p 9, February 20, 2016)

2015 Origins of War. BBC World Service, Discovery. June 2, 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02s5g43

2014 Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan

http://tangent.libsyn.com/101-doug-fry-anthropology-of-peace

2014 War is not part and parcel of human nature, Peace News, online:

http://peacenews.info/category/author/fry-douglas-p

2014 USA Today, Chimp-on-chimp violence: a study in the roots of brutality:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/17/chimps-study-nature-violence/15775355/

2014 Podcast with Christopher Rylan (Washington) http://www.feralaudio.com/show/tangentially-

speaking-with-dr-christopher-ryan/ (coming in October)

2014 Kuvalethi (Finnish Photo Magazine) Sodan Loppu (War’s End), issue 37, pp. 56-

2014 Profil (Austrian current events magazine) Profile, 31:68-73.

2014 Turun Sanomat (Turku’s Newspaper, science supplement) Unelma Rauhasta Säilyy (A Dream of

Peace Remains) September 27, p. 16.

2014 www.AL.com, New Institute for Human Rights helps attract anthropology professor to UAB from

Europe: http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2014/06/post_15.html

2014 UAB Reporter, Scholar-activist to promote peace, justice, and human rights:

http://www.uab.edu/reporter/people/appointments/faculty/item/5113-scholar-activist-to-promote-

peace-justice-and-human-rights

2014 Scholars’ Circle: Human Rights, Israel, Are We Warlike By Nature:

http://www.armoudian.com/log/scholars-circle/scholars-circle-human-rights-middle-east-warlike-july-

27th-2014/

2014 Equal Time for Free Thought with Barry Siedman (WBAI, New York): “War, Peace, and Human

Nature”: http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2014/04/19/show-498-war-peace-and-human-

nature/

2013 Human nature may not be so warlike after all, Wired: http://www.wired.com/2013/07/to-war-

is-human-perhaps-not/

2013 War arose recently, anthropologists contend, Science New:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/war-arose-recently-anthropologists-contend

2013 Scientific American: New Study of Foragers undermines claim that was has deep evolutionary

roots: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/07/18/new-study-of-foragers-undermines-

claim-that-war-has-deep-evolutionary-roots/

2013 Scientific American: New Study of Prehistoric Skeletons Undermines Claim That War Has Deep

Evolutionary Roots http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/07/24/new-study-of-

prehistoric-skeletons-undermines-claim-that-war-has-deep-evolutionary-roots/

2013 Students for Peace: Humane Education and Hope for the Future

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201303/students-peace-humane-education-

and-hope-the-future

2013 Human Nature May Not Be So Warlike After All:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/to-war-is-human-perhaps-not/

2013 Talk Nation Radio with David Swanson, Doug Fry: Humans Have Not Evolved for War:

http://davidswanson.org/node/4271

2013 NPR (National Public Radio) Interview with Douglas P. Fry:

https://radio.azpm.org/p/azspot/2013/8/22/26320-new-study-warfare-may-not-be-part-of-human-

nature/

2013 NBC News: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/war-inevitable-debate-rages-among-

anthropologists-6C10680040

2013 The Economist: Old Warriors? http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-

technology/21581980-latest-research-suggests-humans-are-not-warriors-their-genes-after-all-old

2013 Scholars’ Circle and Insighters Radio with Maria Armoudian (KPFK, Los Angeles, CA):

http://www.armoudian.com/log/scholars-circle/the-scholars-circle-insighters-radio-nov-3rd-2013/

2012 AAAS Podcast: Science's Sacha Vignieri speaks with Douglas P. Fry about the fundamentals of

peace systems: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6083/879/suppl/DC1

2012 (ca.) Interviewed by Mari Frank, KUCI radio, Irvine, CA:

http://www.kuci.org/podcastfile/1069/_120514%20Doug%20Fry%20Final%2028%20min%2004%20sec.

mp3

2010 Video lecture at University of Notre Dame: http://vimeo.com/18707877

2009 Equal time for Free Thought: http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2009/08/02/show-

313314-on-human-nature-and-the-potential-for-peace/

2009 Equal Time for Free Thought (WBAI, New York):

http://www.equaltimeforfreethought.org/2009/08/

2008 Worlds without War, Greater Good, online:

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/worlds_without_war

2007 Imagine all the People:

http://atheism.about.com/od/abouthumanism/a/WarPeaceHuman_2.htm

2007 Center for Inquiry: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/1559/P75/

2007 OUP: Questions for Douglas P. Fry: https://blog.oup.com/2007/02/a_few_questions_15/

REFERENCES

Dr. R. Brian Ferguson Dr. Agustin Fuentes

Department of Sociology & Anthropology Department of Anthropology

Rutgers University--Newark Flanner Hall

360 Martin Luther King Blvd. University of Notre Dame

Newark, NJ 07102 Notre Dame, IN 46556

Tel: +1 973 353-5837 Email: afuentes@nd.edu

Email: bfergusn@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Dr. Jane L. Ireland Dr. Carolyn Nordstrom

Department of Psychology Department of Anthropology

University of Central Lancashire Flanner Hall

Preston, Lancashire PR1 2HE, UK University of Notre Dame

Tel: +44(0)1772 893421 Notre Dame, IN 46556

Email: jlireland1@uclan.ac.uk Email: carolyn.r.nordstrom.1@nd.edu

Dr. Leslie E. Sponsel

Department of Anthropology

University of Hawaii

Honolulu, HI 96822

Tel: +1 808 956-8507

Email: sponsel@hawaii.edu