Ezra B.W. Zubrow

Ezra Zubrow is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Buffalo and a senior research scientist at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis which he helped found. He is a fellow at the University of Cambridge and has been at the Center for Advanced Studies in Bristol, England. He is known as one of the founders of GIS and has been involved in its development since 1972. In addition to teaching, research has been an important part of his career and he has received over $12,000,000 in research funds as either principle investigator or co-investigator. With Marcia Rioux, he conducted one of the first applications of GIS systems to disability policy research.

He served as one of two social scientists on the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program — Human-Dominated Systems Directorate, as well as having previously served as a member of the International Geographic Union's Ad Hoc Commission on Global Warming. His interests have focused on modeling demographic aspects of anthropological populations, and using GIS and spatial statistics to understand the changing temporal and spatial distributions of human population across space and time. He has managed sixteen anthropological expeditions, and is presently working on the demographic and anthropological aspects of environmental sustainability issues in the Everglades and South Florida. He is also participating in an international GIS inventory of the Barents Sea as part of a circumpolar GIS effort.

Education:

B.A.     Harvard University, Anthropology, 1966

M.A.    University of Arizona, Anthropology, 1968

Ph.D.   University of Arizona, Anthropology, 1971

SUNY Buffalo School of Law, 1982

Academic Work Experience:

            1971-1977       Stanford University, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

            1977-1985       State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Associate         

                                    Professor of Anthropology

            1986-Present   SUNY at Buffalo, Professor of Anthropology

Associated Academic Affiliations and Experience

            Adjunct Professor of Geography, SUNY at Buffalo

            Adjunct Professor, School of Law, SUNY at Buffalo

            Curator, Marian White Anthropology Museum

            Research Scientist, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis.

Member, United Nations/US Dept of State, Directorate, Human Dominated Sub-

                 Systems, Man and the Biosphere, UN

Co-Owner, Anthro-L, founder, GIS-L, Internet Social Science list servers

Member, International Commission for Legal Pluralism and Folk Law

Member, International Geographic Union, Ad Hoc Commission on Global  

     Warming

Editor-in-chief, Journal of World Anthropology

Editorial Board, Journal of Applied Simulation Sciences

Editorial Board, Antiquity

Editorial Boar, Cambridge Archaeological Journal