Agustín Fuentes

Agustín Fuentes received a BA in Zoology and Anthropology and an MA and PhD in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He conducted his dissertation fieldwork in the remote Mentaiwai islands of Indonesia and has worked throughout Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the Southern Iberian Peninsula. Dr. Fuentes first taught Introduction to Biological Anthropology at UC Berkeley in the fall of 1995 In 1996 he joined the department of Anthropology at Central Washington University (CWU), where he founded and directed the interdisciplinary undergraduate Primate Behavior and Ecology program. At CWU, Dr. Fuentes began working intensively with undergraduate students on original research, and between 1998 and 2002 he collaborated with Universitas Udayana in Bali, Indonesia, to run summer field projects involving over 80 undergraduates from 9 different countries.

Since 2002 Dr. Fuentes has been in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame where he is a professor of Anthropology. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of cooperation and social complexity in humans, the evolution of social organization, conflict negotiation across primates, and reproductive behavior and ecology. His current research projects include human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and assessing the roles of cooperation, social complexity, and patterns of peace in human evolution. He is also interested in issues of disease, inequity, and resilience. Dr. Fuentes is committed to an integrated holistic anthropological approach. He has published over 50 articles, 17 book chapters, 4 edited volumes, and 2 single-authored books.