David Michael Syring is an American anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the

University of Minnesota Duluth The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) is a public university in Duluth, Minnesota. It is part of the University of Minnesota system and offers 16 bachelor's degrees in 88 majors, graduate programs in 25 different fields, and a two-year pr ...

. He is known for his works on the Saraguro people.

Career

Syring received his BA from Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA) in 1989 and her PhD from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a private research university in Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranked among the top universit ...

in 1997. He is a former editor-in-chief of ''

Anthropology and Humanism Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

''. During his career at the

, he developed a Participatory Media Lab with

Mitra Emad Mitra C. Emad is an American anthropologist and Distinguished University Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is known for her works on cultural constructions of the human body. Emad is a recipient of the Horace T. Morse-U ...

(Professor of Anthropology at UMD).

Books

* ''With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World''. University of Texas Press 2015 * ''Places in the World a Person Could Walk: Family, Stories, Home and Place in the Texas Hill Country''. University of Texas Press 2001

References

American anthropologists Living people University of Minnesota Duluth faculty Rice University alumni Cultural anthropologists Year of birth missing (living people) Cornell College alumni {{US-academic-bio-stub