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2148 WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Maryanski, Alexandra

Professor of Sociology

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Biography

Alexandra Maryanski is a Professor of Sociology. She is trained in anthropology as well as sociology, having gone ABD in anthropology before turning to sociology where she received a Ph.D. in Social Science at the University of California at Irvine. She is known in the discipline as one of a growing group of scholars exploring the interface between evolutionary biology and sociology. Her most import works to date have focused on what knowledge of the evolution of non-human primate social structure can say about human nature, behavior, and social organization. She also has interests in social institutions, particularly kinship and religion, social network analysis, societal evolution, and the history of both sociological and anthropological theory.

Former Institution

University of California Irvine

Degrees

PhD Social Science 1986

University of California Irvine

MA Social Networks 1984

University of California Irvine

MA Anthropology 1980

University of California Riverside

BS Anthropology 1973

University of California Riverside