Project Members
The Human Generosity Project is a cross-disciplinary project co-directed by Lee Cronk and Athena Aktipis, with project members spanning the disciplines.
By working closely together, our team of anthropologists, psychologists and computer scientists capitalize on important synergies. Together we build models, design experiments and develop plans for fieldwork to better understand the conditions that facilitate human generosity.
Lee Cronk
Role:
Anthropologist, project co-director
Institution:
Rutgers University
Lee Cronk, a Professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, is co-director of the Human Generosity Project. Dr. Cronk has conducted fieldwork among the Maa-speaking Mukogodo of Kenya on such topics as cultural change, ethnicity, parental care, and cooperation and in Honduras on the negotiation of familial roles. He is author or co-author of three books (That Complex Whole: Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior, From Mukogodo to Maasai: Ethnicity and Cultural Change in Kenya, and Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation) and co-editor of two more (Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective and Through the Looking Glass: Readings in Anthropology). He has also published articles in American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Human Nature, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Ethnology, Human Ecology, PLOS One, and other journals. In addition to the Human Generosity Project, Cronk maintains research interests on such topics as parenting, signaling, and the relationship between culture and behavior.