Rate Professor Laura Nader

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Radcliffe College, 1961; B.A. in Anthropology, Wells College, 1952.

Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, legal anthropology, and harmony ideology, with a focus on power dynamics and dispute resolution.

Appointments: Professor Emerita, Anthropology, UC Berkeley; First woman tenured in Anthropology at UC Berkeley.

Awards: Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize (1995); American Anthropological Association Distinguished Service Award.

Publications: Author of Harmony Ideology (Stanford University Press, 1990) and The Life of the Law (University of California Press, 2002).

Additional Contributions: Produced ethnographic films; influential public speaker on anthropology and justice.