Laura Nader

Job title: 
Professor of Anthropology; CMES Senior Research Scholar
Department: 
Anthropology
Bio/CV: 

Laura Nader is a Professor of Anthropology. Her current work focuses on how central dogmas are made and how they work in law, energy science, and anthropology. Nader’s areas of interest include comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America, and the contemporary United States. Her films To Make the Balance and Little Injusticesare widely disseminated. Nader is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in 1961 from Radcliffe College.

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