Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
and Flatley Director, Office of Undergraduate
and Post-Baccalaureate Fellowships

648 Flanner Hall
574-631-5421
afuentes@nd.edu

Agustín Fuentes completed a B.A. in Zoology and Anthropology, and an M.A.& Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of cooperation and social complexity in human societies, conflict negotiation across primates, including humans, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He is also interested in issues of disease, inequity, and resilience.

Fuentes’ recent work includes “It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution” in American Anthropologist 106(4) (2004); “Re-visiting conflict resolution: Is there a role for emphasizing negotiation and cooperation instead of conflict and reconciliation?” in R. Sussman and A. Chapman Eds., The Origins and Nature of Sociality (Aldine de Gruyter, 2004), and the forthcoming “Assessing bio-reductionist views of human behavior based on non-human primate studies: sex, violence, and sometimes science” with K.C. Mackinnon in S. McKinnon and S. Silverman eds. Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture (University of Chicago Press). He has published two edited volumes and is finishing three other texts. His research projects include human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and assessing the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and patterns of peace in human evolution.

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