After graduating from Weequahic I spent too very strange years at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, experiencing a part of world I had never imagined and anti-Semitism for the first time. After the three as an army medic (mostly at Ft. Bragg, NC), I retuned to school at Montclair State and discovered anthropology, a field that allowed me to do what I liked most - find out about stuff and write about it. A Ph.D. from SUNY/Buffalo and later an MPA from NYU followed and then a 20-year stint at a social science research institute at Yale. My research, writing, and teaching centered on difficult human issues including homelessness, violence in families, substance abuse, and ethnic conflict.
In 1987 I was asked to be senior editor of a major encyclopedia on the ethnic groups of the world (the 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures) and shortly thereafter a like work on cultural anthropology (the 4-volume Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology). This opened the door to a second career as an editor and publisher and in 1996 my wife, the environmental and literary writer Karen Christensen, and I founded what is now the Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, MA. We publish multi-volume print and electronic reference works on topics ranging from Leadership to Human-Computer Interaction to World History.
My own research and writing is now much about religion and I am finishing up a book about the African-American church in Great Barrington, founded by former slaves in the 1860s. Karen> '> s latest environmental book will be out this month as will a major article in the Guardian on T.S. Eliot. Outside the office we like to travel internationally, raise our children, garden, hike, and watch GB turn from a small town into a major tourist destination.
My oldest, Diane, lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Our nineteen year-old, Tom, is back from six months in China and fluent in Mandarin. He will start his junior year at Grinnell in February. Rachel, our fifteen year-old, tired of high school after one year, is now in her second year at Simon> '> s Rock College of Bard with an interest in things like cognitive neuroscience. Our goals are to get the kids off into the world and to keep trying to help educate the world and make it a healthier place.
David Levinson, Ph.D., President
Berkshire Publishing Group LLC
314 Main Street, Suite 12, Great Barrington, MA 01230 U.S.A.
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