Background
Andrew S. Buckser was born on May 18, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Stanley Buckser, an engineer, and Carol (Jepsen) Dolan Buckser, a consultant.
610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
Buckser joined Purdue University, taking a post of an assistant professor of anthropology, from 1995, he was an associate dean for research and graduate education at the College of Liberal Arts of Purdue University for a year from 2012.
Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Buckser obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1986.
Berkeley, California, United States
Buckser moved to the University of California at Berkeley, receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1988, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy degree five years later.
1 Hartwick Dr, Oneonta, NY 13820, United States
For two years from 1993, Buckser served at Hartwick College as an assistant professor of anthropology.
610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
Buckser joined Purdue University, taking a post of an assistant professor of anthropology, from 1995, he was an associate dean for research and graduate education at the College of Liberal Arts of Purdue University for a year from 2012.
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Buckser was an associate dean for research and graduate education at the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University for a year from 2012.
Ithaca, NY 14850, United States
Buckser worked at Cornell University from 2011 till 2012.
101 Broad St, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, United States
Nowadays Buckser works as a professor of anthropology and Dean of Arts and Science at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh from 2013.
Buckser as a lecturer
(Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Isl...)
Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island; This book reconsiders secularization theory through a case study of arural island in Denmark where, in the late nineteenth century, a series of powerful religious awakenings electrified its population, dividing it into several large and intense Lutheran movements.
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1996
(Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark; Th...)
Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark; This book explores the questions that such inclusion raises for the Danish Jews, and what their answers can tell us about the meaning of religion, ethnicity and community in modern society.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312239459/?tag=2022091-20
2003
anthropologist educator author
Andrew S. Buckser was born on May 18, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Stanley Buckser, an engineer, and Carol (Jepsen) Dolan Buckser, a consultant.
Buckser obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from Harvard University in 1986. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley, receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1988, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy degree five years later.
Buckser was a researcher at the organization Research and Planning, Inc. in Cambridge in 1986. Next year he worked as a teacher of English, physics and American history at a high school in Whitinsville, Massachusetts. For two years from 1993, he served at Hartwick College as an assistant professor of anthropology.
After that Buckser joined Purdue University, taking a post of an assistant professor of anthropology, from 1995. He was an associate dean for research and graduate education at the College of Liberal Arts of Purdue University for a year from 2012.
Buckser also conducted anthropological fieldwork in St. Pierre and Miquelon in 1988, as well as in Denmark from 1989 to 1997. He worked at Cornell University from 2011 till 2012.
Nowadays he works as a professor of anthropology and Dean of Arts and Science at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh from 2013.
Buckser is the author of books Communities of Faith: Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Island, published in 1996, After the Rescue: Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark, and The Anthropology of Religious Conversion, both published in 2003. Buckser has conducted extensive fieldwork with Grundtvigian, Inner Mission, and Pentecostal congregations in Northwest Jutland, as well as with the Jewish community of Copenhagen. In addition to his work on religion, he is a current researcher, who examines cultural dimensions of Tourette Syndrome in the United States and Denmark.
(Sectarianism, Identity, and Social Change on a Danish Isl...)
1996(Jewish Identity and Community in Contemporary Denmark; Th...)
2003Buckser is a member of such organizations as the American Anthropological Association, the American Ethnological Society, the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, the Network for Nordic Anthropology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
Buckser speaks English, Norwegian, Danish and French.
Buckser is married to a woman named Susan Ann.