Education:
Brandeis University 1969-1974 Ph.D. (anthropology)
Brown University 1965-69 B.A.
Primary Fields of Specialization:
Politics and culture; European social history; anthropological demography; political economy and family systems; age structuring; anthropology of religion; European historical demography; nineteenth-century Italian social history and contemporary Italian society and politics; history of Vatican relations with the Jews and with the Italian state.