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David Levinson, PhDdavid [AT] berkshirepublishing [DOT] com
After completing his PhD dissertation, a study of social theory across cultures still in print as Toward Explaining Human Culture, Levinson was for 21 years on the staff, and latterly vice-president, of the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University. HRAF was founded in 1949 as a research institute to collect, organize, and distribute information on the countries and cultures of the world. In addition to responsibility for the publishing program of HRAF, Levinson helped to develop the Cross-Cultural CD and the Electronic HRAF. After leaving HRAF to co-found Berkshire, David continued as a research associate and senior editor of American Immigrant Cultures, a project he had begun at HRAF as an extension of the Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David was born in Jersey City, NJ and grew up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey. After three years as a medic in the US Army, he received a BA from Montclair State College and then an MA and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from SUNY/Buffalo. Levinson also holds a master's degree in Public Administration from New York University. David's first research, a study of the Bowery in New York, was published when he was still an undergraduate. In 2004 Berkshire completed a related project, the Encyclopedia of Homelessness. He has published and taught on ethnic relations, multiculturalism, substance abuse, homelessness, violence against women and children, and cross-cultural research, and has written dozens of scholarly articles and eight books. In 1992 he was a visiting scholar at the National Museum of Ethnology in Kyoto, Japan, and his research and teaching has been supported by grants from the Connecticut Humanities Council and the National Institutes of Mental Health. David's projects at Berkshire included:
His local history, Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W.E.B. DuBois: A History of the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, was published in 2006, as was the much-praised guide to African American history and culture in the Berkshires, African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley, an illustrated book that tells the stories of the Black luminaries who have lived in the area--W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, to name but a few--and details the life and times of the many ordinary yet extraordinary African Americans who have made their mark in the region from the 1700s to the present. He is also the author of the The Tribal Living Book and author of Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut. 
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David Levinson PhD is a cultural anthropologist specializing in contemporary social issues. Formerly vice-president at Yale University’s Human Relations Area Files, an anthropological think-tank, David became "well-known for his multivolume encyclopedic works that describe world cultures" (Choice 1998).
