Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

About H. Russell Bernard

H. Russell Bernard is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Florida. He served as editor of the American Anthropologist and Human Organization. He is co-founder (with Pertti Pelto and Stephen Borgatti) of the Cultural Anthropology Methods journal (1989) which became Field Methods in 1999. The five editions of his methods text Research Methods in Anthropology (AltaMira 2006) and his general research methods text Social Research Methods (Sage 2012) have been used by tens of thousands of students. Bernard co-founded (with Pelto) and co-directed (with Pelto and Borgatti) the National Science Foundations Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology and has done fieldwork in Greece Mexico and the U.S.A. His publications include (with Jesús Salinas Pedraza) Native Ethnography: A Otomí Indian Describes His Culture (Sage 1989). Bernard is known as well for his work with Peter Killworth Eugene Johnsen Christopher McCarty and Gene A. Shelley on network analysis including work on the network scale-up method for estimating hard-to-count populations. In 2010 Bernard was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.