Name: Victor Demunck
Title: Chair
Academic Rank: Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expertise Keywords: Sri Lanka, Cognition, Lithuania, Muslims, South Asia, Cross-cultural research methods, romantic love
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: Over 5 books and over 40 papers in refereed journals and edited volumes
Currrent Research: Romantic love
Cultural models
Lithuania
National identity
Contact Information
Office Phone: 845-257-2985
E-mail Address: demunckv@newpaltz.edu
Education
| Colleges/ Universities Attended |
Dates Attended |
Degree Conferred |
Year Conferred |
Major Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Riverside | 1974-1985 | phd | 1985 | anthropology |
Awards/Grants/Honors
NSF grant 2002 $108,000 "cultural models of romantic love in Russia and the United States"
Fulbright Grant 2002 to Lecture and conduct research in Lithuania
Editor-in-Chief of Reviews in Anthropology 1997--2002
Publications
Culture, Self and Meaning Waveland Press 2000
Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior: Perspectives from the Social Sciences 1998
Self, Other and the Love Dyad in Lithuania: Romantic Love as Fantasy and
Reality (Or, When Culture Matters and Doesn’t Matter). In. Intimacy, W.
Jankowiak, Ed. (pps. 65-95). New York: Columbia University Press. 2008
Wife-Husband Intimacy and Female Status in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Journal of Cross-Cultural Research. (Co-authored with Andrey Korotayev). 4: 307-335. 2007
