Doug Caulkins

D. Douglas Caulkins is the Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership in the Anthropology Department at Grinnell College. With a B.A. in Anthropology from Carleton College and a Ph.D. from Cornell University, he has published on Chippewa adolescent culture in northern Minnesota; voluntary organizations and social capital in Norway; high technology entrepreneurs and regional development in the UK (Wales, Scotland, and England); Welsh culture and identity; the Welsh diaspora and identity on two continents; comparative studies of identity in Celtic cultures; organizational cultures; the politics of British heritage sites; social capital and entrepreneurship among American immigrant groups; and the theories of Mary Douglas. A visiting researcher at universities in the U.K. (Durham, England; Stirling, Scotland; and St. David's College, Wales) as well as Norway (University of Bergen and Trondheim, and the Institute for Social Research in Oslo), he is the recipient of research grants from the Nat ional Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and is currently President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. He and a colleague founded the Grinnell-in-London Program and first taught on it in 1974.