Background
Edelman, Marc was born on June 8, 1952 in New York City. Son of Harold and Judith H. Edelman.
Edelman, Marc was born on June 8, 1952 in New York City. Son of Harold and Judith H. Edelman.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Columbia University, 1975; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1978; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1985.
Adjunct lecturer social science department, LaGuardia Community College, 1979-1980;
visiting research fellow Institute Social Research, U. Costa Rica, 1980-1982;
researcher Hispanic Research Center, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 1983-1984;
visiting scholar Washington Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of Soviet Union, Columbia University, 1984-1985;
associate summer research laboratory Russian & East European Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1985;
research associate, North America Congress on Latin American, New York City, 1985;
research director, North America Congress on Latin American, New York City, 1985-1987;
assistant professor department anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, 1987-1991;
associate professor, Yale University, New Haven, 1991-1994;
associate professor anthropology, CUNY, since 1994. Visiting exchange scholar history faculty Tashkent (Uzbekistan) State University, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1986, Ibero-American Heritage Curriculum Project, New York State Education Department, 1990-1991. Member of advisory board Documentation Exch., Austin, Texas, since 1987.
Director undergraduate studies, county L.Am. studies Yale University, 1988-1990, Executive Committee agrarian studies program, 1991-1994, commission on protection of human subjects, 1992-1994.
Fellow American Anthropol. Association, American Council Learned Socs. (grantee 1988), Society for Applied Anthropology.
Member American Ethnological Society, Culture and Agriculture, International Association for Study of Common Property, Latin American Studies Association (task force on scholarly relations with Control American 1991-1992, chair agrarian issues, indigenous groups and social movements section of 1994 program committee 1992-1994), Society for Economics Anthropology, Society for Latin American Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Débora Soler Munczek, May 31, 1980. 1 child, Daniel.