Pierre Lienard

Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Pierre Lienard is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology of the Anthropology Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research concentrates on the study of the informal institutions of decentralized political organizations and systems, with a particular focus on social coordination, the emergence of leadership and authority, trust allocation and cooperation for militant action. The investigation of those topics has required a particular framework involving ethnographic comparison between developing and developed worlds, oscillation between ethnography and experimental method, and consilience of disciplines (anthropology, evolutionary and cognitive psychologies, behavioral ecology, and institutional studies). Lienard has been published in high-profile publications and first-tier journals (e.g., Behavioral and Brain Sciences, American Anthropologist, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review, Oxford University Press, and PLoS ONE).