Kirk Dombrowski’s primary training and PhD are in cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on northern communities and social breakdown (including issues of substance abuse and suicide, particularly among young people). He received my degree from the CUNY Grad Center in 1998. He also specialize in research methodologies, and have regularly taught the research methods course for the Anthropology Doctoral Program (where I am also a member of the Graduate faculty) and more recently an advanced methods course for the Criminal Justice Doctoral Program. Over the past three years he has expanded his general social science methods to include work in Social Network Analysis, reviving an interest developed earlier in graduate school in a field that has expanded greatly in use and prominence over the last 4 or 5 years. He now serves as a methodology specialist on dissertation committees in Anthropology and in Criminal Justice. He has published a number of articles and a book on issues related to social problems, alcohol and suicide, subsistence and crime in northern communities, and currently has a grant application under review with the NSF to return to northern Canada for two years to continue this research. He also edits two academic book series in topics related to culture politics. |
