معرفی
Dr. Luke Glowacki is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, with affiliations to the Center for Innovation in Social Science and African Studies Center. His research focuses on human evolution, warfare dynamics, and social behavior in small-scale societies, particularly among Ethiopian/South Sudanese pastoralists.
Education:
- PhD, Harvard University
His work combines fieldwork with computational modeling to understand intergroup violence, cooperation, and cultural evolution. Publications span Science, PNAS, and Nature Human Behaviour, with popular science contributions to New York Times and Washington Post. He co-founded the Omo Valley Research Project in 2019.
Research Trends: Recent publications emphasize social network impacts on conflict (2025), cultural evolution of rituals (2024), and subsistence-behavior links (2023). Key themes include warfare origins, cooperation mechanisms, and methodological innovations in studying mobile populations.
