Richard Robbins (born 30 March 1940) is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
He received his Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Rutgers University, his Master of Arts in anthropology from New York University, and Ph.D in anthropology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Awards and honors
2005: American Anthropological Association AAA/McGraw-Hill Teacher of the Year Award2002: SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor1977: SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching2012: Cultural Anthropology: A Problem Based Approach (6th edition), Cengage Publishers2012: Neoliberalism, Race and Racism. In: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 2nd edition. Edited by Patrick Mason. Cengage Publishers2009: Anthropologizing Economics: Lessons from the Latest Crisis, Anthropology News, 50:11-122009: Darwin and the Bible: The Cultural Confrontation. Edited (with Mark Nathan Cohen). Allyn & Bacon Publishers2005: Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (3rd Edition), Allyn & Bacon, Publishers, Boston, Mass.2005: The History of Technology: The Western Tradition. In: Sal Restivo (Eds.): The Oxford Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Society, Oxford University Press1999: Ethnic Violence and the Question of Political Sovereignty. In: Richard Deutsch (Eds:) Perspectives Anthropology, Coursewise Publishing Inc., St. Paul, MN1988: The Belief Machine. Published on the web at http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/Belief/belief-machine.htm1975: Canadian Native Peoples: A Review, The American Review of Canadian Studies, Volume 1, #51969: Economic Change and Ecological Adaptation among the Schefferville Naskapi. McGill Subarctic Research Laboratory Reports, Volume 41996–present: Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, A multi-purpose site that includes, among other things, course material, an Internet course, support materials for the Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, a "global update" feature, and an extensive collection of links to Internet resources on global issues.