Pascal Boyer

Pascal Boyer
NationalityFrench-American
Occupations
TitleHenry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
Notable worksReligion Explained
Websitepascalboyer.net

Pascal Robert Boyer is a Franco-American cognitive anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, mostly known for his work in the cognitive science of religion. He studied at université Paris-Nanterre, and taught at the University of Cambridge for eight years, before taking up the position of Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches classes on evolutionary psychology and anthropology.[1] He was a Guggenheim Fellow and a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Lyon, France.[2] He studied philosophy and anthropology at University of Paris and Cambridge, with Jack Goody, working on memory constraints on the transmission of oral literature.[3] Boyer is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  1. ^ Official home page Archived 2006-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Pascal Boyer CV". Archived from the original on 2018-10-11.
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Pascal Boyer". www.gf.org. Retrieved 2015-12-12.