Scott Atran Ph.D.

Scott Atran, Ph.D., is a research professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. He researches the following areas: cognitive and linguistic anthropology, ethnobiology, environmental decision-making, categorization and reasoning, evolutionary psychology, anthropology of science (history and philosophy of natural history and natural philosophy); Middle East ethnography, and political economy, among other topics. He is a co-founder of Artis International, a research professor at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, and a research fellow at the Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford. He is the author of Talking to the Enemy, and In Gods We Trust.