CURRICULUM VITAE
February 2009
Education:
B.A. (Sociology-Anthropology), Antioch College, 1965.
Graduate study (Sociology), Cornell University, 1965-1966.
Ph.D. (Social Anthropology), Harvard University, March 1971.
Appointments:
Research Assistant for John W. M. Whiting, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, 1966-1967.
Field research among the Luo of Kenya supported by a Carnegie Corporation grant to the Child Development Research Unit, University College, Nairobi and Harvard University (Project Directors: J. W. M. Whiting and B. B. Whiting), 1967-1968.
Research Assistant for John W. M. Whiting, Department of Social Relations, Harvard University, 1968-1969.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, September 1970-January 1971.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, February 1971-December 1974.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, January 1975-December 1980.
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, January 1981-August 1996 (on leave 1994-95, 1995-96).
Consultant, Research and Development, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., 1995-96.
Executive Director, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., 1996- .
Fellowships and Grants:
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Cornell University, 1965-1966.
NIMH Predoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University, 1969-1970.
NSF grant for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests." February 1983-August 1984 (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember).
NSF grant for "Cross-Cultural Tests of Ecological, Psychological, and Social Explanations of Warfare and Interpersonal Aggression." June 1, 1986-May 31, 1988 (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember).
Grant from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests." July 1, 1986-June 30, 1987 (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember).
Grant from PSC-CUNY Research Award Program for "Ecological and Other Predictors of Warfare and Aggression: Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Cultural Tests." July 1, 1987-June 30, 1988 (Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember).
NSF grant for "A Conference to Assess the Past and Help Plan the Future of Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research." January 1, 1988-December 30, 1988 (Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Joseph G. Jorgensen, Robert L. Munroe, and Douglas White). Conference held at Human Relations Area Files, March 16-18, 1988.
NSF grant for "Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research." July 1, 1989-June 30, 1994 (Carol R. Ember, Michael L. Burton and Robert L. Munroe).
NSF grant for "A Cross-Cultural Study of Political Participation and Peace." February 1, 1990-April 31, 1992 (Bruce Russett, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember).
United States Institute of Peace grant for "Cross-Cultural Study of Political Participation and Peace." May 1, 1990-October 31, 1991 (Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Bruce Russett).
NSF grant for "Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research." May 1995-April 30, 1999 (Carol R. Ember, Michael L. Burton and Robert L. Munroe).
Honors:
Elected to Executive Committee as Representative of Anthropological Sciences, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, 1976-1978.
Appointed to Advisory Committee for Behavioral and Neural Sciences (Social/Cultural Anthropology), National Science Foundation, September 1981-August 1983.
Nominated for President, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1983.
Invited to contribute to special 40th anniversary issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research.
Advisory Editor, Cross-Cultural Research (formerly Behavior Science Research), 1983-present.
President, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, 1985-1986.
Program Chair, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1985.
Editor, Social/Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, March 1985 - August 1987.
Selected as one of the authors reprinted in special issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research on "Approaches to Culture and Society," 1986.
Member, Review Panel for Weatherhead Resident Scholars, School of American Research, Santa Fe, 1986.
Member, Review Panel for Visiting Professorships for Women, National Science Foundation, 1986.
Member, Review Panel, Prize for Behavioral Science Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988.
Member of Board of Directors, Human Relations Area Files, 1988-present.
Nominated for President, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1989.
Chair, Review Panel, Prize for Behavioral Science Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989, 1990.
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1989-.
Member of Editorial Board, Ethos, 1989-.
Nominated for President, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, 1990.
Member of Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (4 vols.), David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Member of Advisory Board, Handbook Of Method in Cultural Anthropology, H. Russell Bernard, ed. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Who’s Who in the East, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World.
Nominated for President, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association, 2000.
Cross-Cultural Research Methods (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 2001), by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, was selected by Choice Magazine as an “Outstanding Academic Title for 2002.”
Editorial Board, American Anthropologist, 2006-2008.
President-elect, Society for Anthropological Sciences, 2009-2011.
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2008.
Books:
1973 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1977 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Second editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall.
1981 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Third editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall.
1983 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Marriage, Family, and Kinship: Comparative Studies of Social Organization. New Haven: HRAF Press.
1985 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Fourth editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall.
1988 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Fifth editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall.
1990 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Sixth editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice- Hall.
1991 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology: A Brief Introduction. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1993 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Seventh editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1995 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Anthropology: A Brief Introduction. 2nd edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1996 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. Eighth editions. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
1997 Burton Pasternak, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
1998 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology: A Brief Introduction. 3rd edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
1998 Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, David Levinson, eds. Portraits of Culture: Ethnographic Originals.Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Research Frontiers in Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1998 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction Using ExplorIt. Bellevue, WA: Microcase.
1999 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology, Ninth editions. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
1999 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Cultures of the World: Selections from the Ten-Volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures.New York: Macmillan Reference.
2000 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology: A Brief Introduction. 4th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
2001 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Countries and Their Cultures. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference/Gale.
2001 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Cross-Cultural Research Methods. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
2002 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Cultural Anthropology, Tenth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2002 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Peter Peregrine, Anthropology, Tenth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson Prentice Hall
2002 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember, eds. Archaeology: Original Readings in Method and Practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2002 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember, eds. Physical Anthropology: Original Readings in Method and Practice. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2002 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Ian Skoggard, eds. Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Supplement. New York: Macmillan Reference/Gale.
2002 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures Around the World. 4 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier/Scholastic.
2003 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Anthropology: A Brief Introduction, Fifth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2003 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. New Directions in Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, CD-ROM.
2004 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Cultural Anthropology, 11th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2004 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine. Anthropology, 11th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Pearson Prentice Hall
2004 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures. 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, in press.
2004 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2005 Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard,eds. Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World, 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2007 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine. Physical Anthropology and Archaeology. 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall
2007 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Cultural Anthropology, 12th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall
2007 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Peter N. Peregrine. Anthropology, 12th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2009 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember and Peter N. Peregrine. Human Evolution and Culture: Highlights of Anthropology, 6th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
2009 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Articles:
1971 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. The Conditions Favoring Matrilocal Residence Versus Patrilocal Residence. American Anthropologist 73:571-594. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1972 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. The Conditions Favoring Multilocal Residence. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 28:382-400. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1973 Carol R. Ember. Feminine Task Assignment and the Social Behavior of Boys. Ethos 1:424-439.
1974 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Burton Pasternak. On the Development of Unilineal Descent. Journal of Anthropological Research 30:69-94. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1974 Carol R. Ember. An Evaluation of Alternative Theories of Matrilocal Versus Patrilocal Residence. Behavior Science Research 9:135-149. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1975 Carol R. Ember. Residential Variation Among Hunter-Gatherers. Behavior Science Research 10:199-227. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1976 Burton Pasternak, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. On the Conditions Favoring Extended Family Households. Journal of Anthropological Research 32:109-123. Reprinted in special issue, "Approaches to Culture and Society," Journal of Anthropological Research 42 (1986):299-313. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1977 Carol R. Ember. On Some Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology. In Issues in Cross-Cultural Research, Leonore Loeb Adler, ed., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 285:215-216.
1977 Carol R. Ember. Cross-Cultural Cognitive Studies. Annual Review of Anthropology, Bernard J. Siegel, ed. Volume 6:33-36.
1978 Carol R. Ember. Men's Fear of Sex With Women: A Cross-Cultural Study. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research 4:657-678.
1978 Carol R. Ember. Myths About Hunter-Gatherers. Ethnology 17:439-448. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1979 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Male-Female Bonding: A Cross-Species Study of Mammals and Birds. Behavior Science Research 14:37-56. Reprinted in M. Ember and C. R. Ember, Marriage, Family, and Kinship, 1983.
1979 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Psychosexual Predictors of the Gender of Objective Nouns in French: An Exploratory Study. Ethos 7:51-67.
1981 Carol R. Ember. A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Sex Differences. In Handbook of Cross-Cultural Human Development, Ruth H. Munroe, Robert L. Munroe, and Beatrice B. Whiting, eds. New York: Garland, pp. 531-580.
1983 Carol R. Ember. The Relative Decline in Women's Contribution to Agriculture with Intensification. American Anthropologist 85:285-304.
1984 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. The Evolution of Human Female Sexuality: A Cross-Species Perspective. Special 40th anniversary issue of the Journal of Anthropological Research 40:202-210.
1984 Carol R. Ember. Kulturvergleichende Kognitionsforschung. In Soziale Struktur und Vernunft: Jean Piagets Modell entwickelten Denkens in der Diskussion kulturvergleichender Forschung, Traugott Schofthaler and Dietrich Goldschmidt, eds. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. (Translation of "Cross-Cultural Cognitive Studies.")
1985 Carol R. Ember. Reply to Cleveland. American Anthropologist 87:407-410.
1986 Carol R. Ember. The Quality and Quantity of Data for Cross-Research. Behavior Science Research 20:1-16.
1986 Bernard, H. Russell, Pertti Pelto, Oswald Werner, James Boster, A. Kimball Romney, Allen Johnson, Carol R. Ember, and Alice Kasakoff. The Construction of Primary Data in Cultural Anthropology. Current Anthropology 27:382-96.
1988 Comment on Jane Guyer, The Multiplication of Labor: Gender and Agricultural Change in Modern Africa. Current Anthropology 29: 261.
1990 Carol R. Ember. Bibliography of Cross-Cultural Research Methods. Behavior Science Research 24: 141-154.
1991 Comment on Joseph H. Manson and Richard W. Wrangham, Intergroup Aggression in Chimpanzees and Humans. Current Anthropology 32: 379.
1991 Comment on Peter M. Gardner, Foragers' Pursuit of Individual Autonomy. Current Anthropology 32: 561-562.
1991 Carol R. Ember and David Levinson. The Substantive Contributions of Worldwide Cross-Cultural Studies Using Secondary Data. In "Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research: Theory and Method," special issue of Behavior Science Research 25: 79-140.
1991 Carol R. Ember, Marc H. Ross, Michael Burton, and Candice Bradley. Problems of Measurement in Cross-Cultural Research Using Secondary Data. In "Cross-Cultural and Comparative Research: Theory and Method," special issue of Behavior Science Research 25: 187-216.
1992 Comment on Nurit Bird-David, 'The Original Affluent Society'. Current Anthropology 33: 37-38.
1992 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Resource Unpredictability, Mistrust, and War: A Cross-Cultural Study. Journal of Conflict Resolution 36: 242-262.
1992 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Bruce Russett. Peace Between Participatory Polities: A Cross-Cultural Test of the "Democracies Rarely Fight Each Other" Hypothesis. World Politics 44: 573-599.
1992 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: Cross-Cultural Codes. Behavior Science Research 26: 169-226.
1993 Comment on Paul B. Roscoe, Practice and Political Centralisation: A New Theoretical Approach to Political Evolution. Current Anthropology 34: 125.
1993 Carol R. Ember, Bruce Russett, and Melvin Ember. Political Participation and Peace: Cross-Cultural Codes. Cross-Cultural Research (formerly Behavior Science Research) 27: 97-145.
1993 Bruce Russett, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. The Democratic Peace in Nonindustrial Societies. In Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World by Bruce Russett, with the colloboration of William Antholis, Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, and Zeev Maoz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 99-118.
1993 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Issues in Cross-Cultural Studies of Interpersonal Violence. In Violence and Victims (special issue on "Sociocultural Aspects of Violent Behavior", Barry Ruback and Neil A. Weiner, eds.) 8: 217-233. Also In Barry Ruback and Neil A. Weiner, eds., Interpersonal Violent Behavior: Social and Cultural Aspects. New York: Springer.
1994 Improvements in Cross-Cultural Research Methods. Cross-Cultural Research (special issue, Part I, in honor of Raoul Naroll) 28:364-370.
1994 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. War, Socialization, and Interpersonal Violence: A Cross-Cultural Study. Journal of Conflict Resolution 38 (1994): 620-646.
1994 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Cross-Cultural Studies of War and Peace: Recent Achievements and Future Possibilities. In Studying War: Anthropological Perspectives, S. P. Reyna and R. E. Downs, eds. New York: Gordon & Breach, pp. 185-208.
1994 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Prescriptions for Peace: Policy Implications of Cross-Cultural Research on War and Interpersonal Violence. Cross-Cultural Research (special issue, Part I, in honor of Raoul Naroll) 28:343-350.
1995 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Cross-Cultural Studies and Their Relevance for Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 3: 87-111.
1995 Carol R. Ember. The Making of a Cross-Cultural Researcher. In Research Frontiers in Anthropology, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing. Reprinted in Research Frontiers in New Directions in Anthropology, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. CD-ROM. 2004.
1995 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: SCCS Codes. World Cultures 9. (An abridged, electronic version of Ember and Ember [1992], "Warfare, Aggression, and Resource Problems: Cross-Cultural Codes.")
1996 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. What Have We Learned From Cross-Cultural Research?. General Anthropology (Bulletin of the Council for General Anthropology), vol. 2, no. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 1, 5-7.
1996 Carol R. Ember. Cross-Cultural Research. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Henry Holt, pp. 261-265.
1996 Carol R. Ember. Gender Differences and Roles. In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Henry Holt, pp. 519-524.
1996 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Science in Anthropology. In The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions, Conrad Kottak, Jane White, Richard Furlow, and Patricia Rice, eds. Mountainview, CA: Mayfield.
1997 Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Bruce Russett. Inequality and Democracy in the Anthropological Record. In Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development, Manus I. Midlarsky, ed., New York: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 110-130.
1997 Marshall H. Segall, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. Aggression, Crime, and Warfare. In J.W. Berry, M.H. Segall, and C. Kagitcibasi, eds. Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 3: Social Behavior and Applications, Second Edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, pp. 213-254.
1997 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Violence in the Ethnographic Record: Results of Cross-Cultural Research on War and Aggression. In Troubled Times: Osteological and Archaeological Evidence of Violence, Debra Martin and David Frayer, eds. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, pp. 1-20.
1998 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Cross-Cultural Research. In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology, H. Russell Bernard, ed. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, pp. 647-687.
1998 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. On Cross-Cultural Research. In Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing.
1999 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Cross-Language Predictors of Consonant-Vowel Syllables. American Anthropologist 101: 730-742.
2000 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Testing Theory and Why the “Units of Analysis” Problem Is Not a Problem. Ethnology 39: 349-363.
2000 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. High CV Score: Regular Rhythm or Sonority? American Anthropologist 102: 848-851.
2000 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Myths About Preindustrial War: Possible Lessons for Peace from Worldwide Cross-Cultural Research. In Cross-Cultural Approaches to Aggression and Reconciliation, J. Martin Ramirez and Deborah R. Richardson, eds. Huntington, NY: NovaScience, pp. 149-166.
2001 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Making the World More Peaceful: Policy Implications of Cross-Cultural Research. In Prevention and Control of Aggression andthe Impact on Its Victims, Manuela Martinez, ed. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp. 331-338.
2002 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Father-Absence and Male Aggression: A Reexamination of the Comparative Evidence. Ethos(special issue in honor of Beatrice B. Whiting) 29: 296-314.
2003 Carol R. Ember. Universal and Variable Patterns of Gender Difference. In Cross-Cultural Research for Social Science. Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. In New Directions in Anthropology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, CD-ROM.
2003 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Predicted Associations between Race and Behavior. Evolution and Human Behavior 24: 357-364.
2003 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Gender-Based Social Groups. In Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World’s Cultures, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. 2 vols. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. Pp. 128-136.
2004 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Toward the Evolution of a More Civil World. Social Evolution & History 3: 137-161.
2004 Peter N. Peregrine, Melvin Ember, and Carol R. Ember. Predicting the Future State of the World Using Archaeological Data: An Exercise in Archaeomancy. Special Issue. The Future State of the World: An Anthropological Symposium. Robert Bates Graber, Guest Editor. Cross-Cultural Research 38: 133-146.
2004 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. Universal Patterns in Cultural Evolution: An Empirical Analysis Using Guttman Scaling. American Anthropologist 106: 145-149.
2005 Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember, Andrey Korotayev, and Victor de Munck. Valuing Thinness or Fatness in Women: Re-evaluating the Effect of Resource Scarcity. Evolution and Human Behavior 26: 257-270.
2005 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Explaining Corporal Punishment of Children: A Cross-Cultural Study. American Anthropologist 107: 609-619.
2006 Carol R. Ember. Introduction. Special Issue: Strategies of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. Carol R. Ember, Guest Editor. Cross-Cultural Research 40: 3-5.
2006 Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Peter N. Peregrine, and Sergei Storostin. Cross-Cultural Research as a Rosetta Stone for Discovering the Original Homelands of Protolanguage Groups. Special Issue: Strategies of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. Carol R. Ember, Guest Editor Cross-Cultural Research 40: 18-28.
2007 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Climate, Econiche, and Sexuality: Influences on Sonority in Language. American Anthropologist 109: 180-185.
2007 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Modeling State Origins Using Cross-Cultural Data. Cross-Cultural Research 41: 75-86.
2007 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Effects of the Physical and Social Environment on Culture: Results of Cross-Cultural Studies. In Studying Societies and Cultures: Marvin Harris’s Cultural Materialism and Its Legacy. Lawrence A. Kuznar and Stephen K. Sanderson, eds, pp. 153-166.
2007 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. War and the Socialization of Children: Comparing Two Evolutionary Models. Cross-Cultural Research 41: 96-122.
2007 Rejoinder to Munroe and Fought’s Commentary (by Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember). American Anthropologist 109: 785.
2007 Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember and Bobbi S. Low. Comparing Explanations of Polygyny. Cross-Cultural Research 41: 428-40.
2007 Using the HRAF Collection of Ethnography in Conjunction With the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample and the Ethnographic Atlas. Cross-Cultural Research 41: 396-427.
n.d. Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember, and Melvin Ember. Cross-Cultural Research in the Study of Migration: Cultural Features and Language. In Ancient Human Migrations: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman, eds. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Miscellaneous:
1988 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Guide to Cross-Cultural Research Using the HRAF Archive. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
1992 Carol R. Ember with the assistance of Hugh Page, Jr., Timothy O'Leary, and M. Marlene Martin. Computerized Concordance of Cross-Cultural Samples. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
1996 Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Basic Guide to Cross-Cultural Research Using the HRAF Collection of Ethnography. New Haven: Human Relations Area Files.
1998 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Facts of Violence. Anthropology Newsletter, October, pp. 14-15.
1998d Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. Of War and Peace. Anthropology Newsletter, November, p. 9.
2000 Peter N. Peregrine, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. Teaching Critical Evaluation of Rushton. Anthropology News 41: 2 (February): 29-30.
2001 Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. eHRAF Archaeology on the Web. The SAA Archaeological Record, March, pp. 25-26.
2003 Carol R. Ember. Current Issues in Ethnology: Is Ethnography Relevant? Teaching Anthropology: SACC Notes. Volume 9 (2): 7-13.
Reviews:
1977 Psychological Anthropology by Thomas R. Williams, ed. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 8:126-128.
1981 Emerging from the Chrysalis: Studies in Rituals of Women's Initiation by Bruce Lincoln. Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology 4:489-492.
1983 Universals of Human Thought: Some African Evidence by Barbara Lloyd and John Gay, eds. American Anthropologist 85:195-196.
1983 Toward Explaining Human Culture: Critical Review of the Findings of Worldwide Cross-Cultural Research by David Levinson and Martin J. Malone. American Anthropologist 85:188-189.
1983 Psyche and Society: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Sociology by Robert Endelman. Man 18:431-432.
1987 Varieties of Sexual Experience by Suzanne G. Frayser. Man 22:196-197.
2000 Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior by Christopher Boehm. American Anthropologist 103: 562-563.