Bates is presently Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate at Hunter College and the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. He has field or professional experience in Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Egypt, Kenya, and Uganda. He has studied at Robert College, Istanbul (now Bosphorus University), the University of Freiburg, and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1971). Most of his professional activities have been in Turkey, where he taught most recently at Istanbul Bilgi University (1998-2002).

Fieldwork in Bulgaria concerned the ethnic Turkish minority's responses to the ethnic policies of the previous communist regime and its place in the democratic transition. Earlier work among nomadic pastoralists and farmers in Turkey and Iran focused on patterns of land use, intergroup relations, and household organization and demography.

He is the senior editor of the bi-monthly journal Human Ecology and maintains an office at Hunter College, CUNY. Human Ecology is peer reviewed and is highly ranked world-wide among leading journals in anthropology (16 out of 49) and in environmental studies (18 out of 45).He is also co-editor of a new book series in environmental studies for Springer, which has signed three volumes so far. He has five books (some co-authored) currently in print.

Consultancies include the World Bank Inspection Panel, USAID, Government of Kenya, a legal firm representing the Government of Turkey, and the Caspian Development Advisory Panel. Bates is currently revising his Prentice Hall book on the Middle East and the fourth edition of Human Adaptive Strategies for Allyn and Bacon has come out in 2005.

Contact Information

Department of Anthropology
Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
office tel: 212.772.5455 or 212.772.5410
e-mail: dbates@hunter.cuny.edu
fax: 212.772.5454

Primary address:
185 124 th Avenue
Shelbyville, MI 49344
269.672.5421 & (cell) 616.822.1879