CASBS helped shape my research and career in so many ways, that I cannot imagine what would have happened had I not spent my early years as an Assistant Professor at CASBS (1994-1995). The resulting volume, Cetacean Societies, was the…

In the mid-1990s, then Director Neil Smelser made me an offer I couldn’t refuse – the opportunity to work as his colleague on three-year project funded by the Hewlett Foundation, which would culminate in my organizing a year of collective…