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WHAT I AM...

  • anthropologist
  • game theorist
  • data head

WHERE I AM...

  • PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle
  • Fulbrighter (2012) to Dominica
  • Galactic Overlord, Milky Way

...AND WHAT I STUDY.

  • cooperation and conflict
  • migration and remittances
  • human-environment interaction

 

Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell
I apply the principles of modern evolutionary theory to study human behavior, economics,  and demography. My research ranges broadly from labor migration to the rise and fall of the ancient Maya to the evolution of aggression and territoriality to the foundations of human kinship.

My separate lines of research tie into four important scientific and social issues: the origins and maintenance of cooperation, the origins and maintenance of social inequality, the mechanisms underlying conflict within and among groups, and the ways humans respond to and influence the environment.


Benjamin Chabot-Hanowell is a smart dude, and a Fulbrighter. That said, this website is not an official U.S. Department of State website. The views and information presented are his own, and do not represent the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State.