The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Nicholas W. Townsend

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Professor Townsend studies social reproduction; families and social structure; men's lives in political-economic context; spatially dispersed social groups; the United States and Southern Africa.

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Nicholas Townsend first came to Brown in 1994 as a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the PSTC. He was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Anthropology in 1996. He received his BA in Anthropology, MA in Demography, and PhD in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley.

NICHOLAS W. TOWNSEND, Ph.D. U California-Berkeley 1992
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Phone: 401-863-9343
Phone 2: 401-863-3251
E-mail: Nicholas_Townsend@brown.edu

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