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Trained in anthropology, linguistics, and mathematics, Niko Besnier (1958) became professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2005. He is currently serving on the Daily Board of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.
He has previously taught at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Yale University, Victoria University of Wellington, and UCLA, and has held temporary appointments at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, the University of Auckland, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Waseda University, and Kagoshima University.
His research has received funding from the (U.S.) National Science Foundation (twice), the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Wenner-Gren Foundation (twice), the HarryF. Guggenheim Foundation, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (three times), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and several local funds. He serves on the editorial board of a number of journals in anthropology, gender & sexuality studies, and linguistics. He was Chair of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (1995-96), Chief Examiner in Social and Cultural Anthropology for the International Baccalaureate (1998-2003), and Member-at-Large for the Society of Linguistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association (2004-07). He is currently serving a four-year term (2008-2012) on the Advisory Board of the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
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