Alan Fiske

Alan Page Fiske
Nationality	American
Fields	Anthropology
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	Making Up Society: Four Models for Constructing Social Relations Among the Moose of Burkina Faso (1985)
Known for	Social relationship theories

Alan Page Fiske, born in 1947, is an American professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them.

Fiske was born in 1947. His father, Donald W. Fiske, was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. His sister, Susan Fiske, is a social psychologist.

Fiske earned a bachelor's degree (Cum Laude) in Social Relations from Harvard College in 1968. He went on to earn a master's degree in 1973 and a PhD in 1985, both from the University of Chicago, focusing on cross-cultural problems and human development.

Between earning degrees, Fiske worked as a director and consultant to the Peace Corps in Bangladesh and Upper Volta, and as consultant to USAID for the Central African Republic.

Fiske served in various professorship capacities at the University of Pennsylvania, UCSD, Swarthmore College, and Bryn Mawr College, before settling into a full professorship at UCLA beginning in 2002. There he is former director of the Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, and of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. His areas of research interest include psychological anthropology, social relationships, and theories of violence.

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