EDWARD DAVID LOWE
CURRENT POSITION
Professor of Anthropology – Soka University of America
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Associate Professor of Anthropology – Soka University of America (2005 – 2019)
Assistant Research Anthropologist, Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California – Los Angeles (2001-2005)
EDUCATION
Postdoctoral Trainee Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences University of California – Los Angeles (1999-2001)
PH.D. Social Science — University of California – Irvine 1999
(Program: Social Relations run by Depts. of Anthropology & Sociology)
B.A. Anthropology Texas A&M University (1990)
B.S. Psychology Texas A&M University (1990)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Psychological anthropology, ethnographic and comparative methods, ecocultural studies, poverty and urban studies, kinship, life-span transitions for youth and young adults, and how social change matters for human well-being.
COURSES TAUGHT
Urban Anthropology, Poverty, Power, and Urban Life, Social Science Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Human Origins, Culture and Globalization in Oceania, Medical Anthropology, Psychological Anthropology, Modes of Inquiry, Enduring Questions in Contemporary Contexts
AWARDS AND HONORS
Professor of the Year – Soka University of America (2013-2014)
Professor of the Year – Soka University of America (2008-2009)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Director of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Soka University of America (2010-2012)
Chair – Institutional Review Board (IRB) 2016 to Present.
Editor-in-Chief, Ethos, Aug. 2012 – Aug 2018
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SERVICE
Institutional Review Board (IRB), Soka University of America
Academic Affairs Committee, Soka University of America
Academic Advising Committee, Soka University of America
Student Judicial Affairs Committee, Soka University of America
Faculty Enhancement Committee, Soka University of America
Rank and Tenure Committees (six cases), Soka University of America
External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion (2 cases)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Society for Urban, National, Transnational/Global Anthropology
European Association for Social Anthropology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND CONSULTING
Editor, Ethos: The Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (Aug. 2012 – Aug. 2018)
Reviewer for Current Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, and Journal of Family Issues.
Invited Conference Co-Organizer: Comparing Culture(s): Reinvigorating Comparative Methods in Anthropology, with Michael Schnegg, University of Hamburg, Germany. (May 2016)
Secretary-Treasurer – Society for Psychological Anthropology (2012)
Workshop co-organizer and presenter. Mixed Methods from the Bottom Up. California State Long Beach. (2006)
Participant. The Next Generation. A collaborative group studying the impact of welfare reform on children and adolescents. (2001-2003)
Co-organizer of Micronesian Parenting in a New Millennium (with Francis X. Hezel, S. J.). Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. November 2000. Pohnpei, FSM (2000)
LANGUAGES
Namoneas Dialect of Chuuk
German