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Davydd J. Greenwood
Office: 120A Uris
Phone: (607) 255-7592
Davydd J. Greenwood is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University where he has served as a faculty member since 1970. He has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He served as the John S. Knight Professor and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for 10 years and was President of the Association of International Education Administrators. He also has served as a program evaluator for many universities and for the National Foreign Language Center. His work centers on action research, political economy, ethnic conflict, community and regional development, the Spanish Basque Country, Spain’s La Mancha region, and the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York where he carried out a 3 year action research and community development project with communities along the Erie Canal corridor. His current work focuses on the impact of corporatization on higher education with a particular emphasis on the social sciences.

Selected Publications

Book:
2006 with Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change, Second edition revised. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, Inc.
1999 Editor, Action Research: From Research to Writing in the Scandinavian Action Research Program, Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
1998 Hondarribia: Riqueza ingrata: Comercialización y colapso de la agricultura. (traducción de María Belmonte Barrenetxea). Donostia, Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco. (translation of Unrewarding Wealth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1976.)
  Co-editor with Carol J. Greenhouse, Honorio Velasco M., Jesús Prieto de Pedro, La democracia y la diferencia: Cultura, poder y representación en los Estados Unidos y en España. Madrid, Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.
  with Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, Inc.
1992 Industrial Democracy as Process: Participatory Action Research in the Fagor Cooperative Group of Mondragón, co-author, José Luis González (with Julio Cantón Alonso, Ino Galparsoro Markaide, Alex Goiricelaya Arruza, Isabel Legarreta Nuin, and Kepa Salaberría Amesti), Assen-Maastricht, Van Gorcum Publishers.
1990 Culturas de Fagor: Estudio antropológico de las cooperativas de Mondragón , co-author José Luis González (with Julio Cantón Alonso, Ino Galparsoro Markaide, Alex Goiricelaya Arruza, Isabel Legarreta Nuin, and Kepa Salaberría Amesti). San Sebastian, Editorial Txertoa.
1985 The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Study of Humans, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
1977 Nature, Culture, and Human History: A Bio-cultural Introduction to Anthropology, coauthored with William A. Stini, New York, Harper & Row, Publishers.
1976 Unrewarding Wealth: Commercialization and the Collapse of Agriculture in a Spanish Basque Town, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Edited Collections:
2006 With Mary Brydon-Miller and Olav Eikeland, Ethics and Action Research, special issue of Journal of Action Research, 4, 1.
2006 Roundtable on Social Capital, Theme issue, Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, 17, no. 4, October-December.
Articles:
2007 Who Are the Real “Problem Owners”? On the Social Embeddedness of Universities, Harding, A., Scott, A., Laske, S. and Burtscher, C. eds.  Bright Satanic Mills: Universities, Regional Development and the Knowledge Economy. Aldershot, Ashgate, pp. 95-117.
2006 With Mary Brydon-Miller and Carla Shafer, Intellectual Property and Action Research, in Journal of Action Research, 4, 1, 81-95
  With Mary Brydon-Miller, A Re-examination of the Relationship between Action Research and Human Subjects Review Processes, in Journal of Action Research, 4, 1, 117-128.
2005 With Morten Levin, Reform of the Social Sciences, and of Universities Through Action Research, Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd edition. Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, eds., Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 43-64.
2004 Action Research: Collegial Responses Fulfilled, Concepts and Transformation, Vol. 9, No. 1: 80- 93.
  Feminism and Action Research: Is “Resistance” Possible and, If So, Why is it Necessary? in Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire, and Alice McIntyre, eds., Traveling Companions: Feminism, Teaching, and Action Research. Westport, Praeger
  With Nimat Hafez Barazangi, Melissa Grace Byrnes, Jamecia Lynn Finne, Evaluation Model for an Undergraduate Action Research Program, in Budd Hall, ed., Learning and the World We Want, Proceedings of the conference “Intersecting Conversations on Education, Culture, and Community, University of Victoria, pp. 152-159.
2003 Co-author with Kai A. Schafft, Promises and Dilemmas of Participation: Action Research, Search Conference Methodology, and Community Development, Journal of the Community Development Society, 34, No. 1: 18-35.
  Why Action Research? With Mary Brydon Miller and Patricia Maguire, Journal of Action Research, Vol. 1, No. 1: 9-28.
2002 Action research: Unfulfilled promises and unmet challenges, Concepts and Transformation 7.2:117–139.
2001 with Morten Levin, Pragmatic Action Research and the Struggle to Transform Universities into Learning Communities, in Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury, eds. Handbook of Action Research, London, Sage Publications, pp. 103-113.
  with Morten Levin, Re-Organizing Universities and "Knowing How": University Restructuring and Knowledge Creation for the Twenty-first Century in Organization 8, No.2: 433-440.
2000 with Morten Levin, Reconstructing the Relationships between Universities and Society through Action Research, in Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, eds. Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd ed., Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications, Inc., pp. 85-106.
1999 The Inhumanities and Inaction Research in Anthropology, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Anthropology Newsletter, Volume 40, Number 4, April, p. 56.
  Theory-practice Relations in Anthropology: A Commentary and Further Provocation, in Carole E. Hill and Marietta L. Baba, Eds., The Unity of Theory and Practice in Anthropology: Rebuilding a Fractured Synthesis, NAPA Bulletin number 18, Washington, D.C.
1998 with Morten Levin, Action Research, Science, and the Co-optation of Social Research, Studies in Cultures, Organizations and Societies. Vol 4, No. 2, summer, 1998, pp. 237-261.
  with Morten Levin, Introduction to Action Research: Social Research for Social Change. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage Publications.
  with Morten Levin, The Reconstruction of Universities: Seeking a Different Integration into Knowledge Development Processes, in Concepts and Transformation 2, No. 2: 145-163.
1997 co-author with Johan Elvemo, Ann Martin, Lisa Grant Mathews, Aleeza Strubel, Laurine Thomas, Participation, Action, and Research in the Classroom, Studies in Continuing Education 19, No. 1:1-50.
1991 Collective Reflective Practice through Participatory Action Research: A Case Study from the Fagor Cooperatives of Mondragón, in Donald A. Schön, ed., The Reflective Turn: Case Studies in and on Educational Practice, New York, Teacher's College Press, pp. 84-107.
  Participatory Action Research: Through Practice to Science in Social Research, with William Foote Whyte and Peter Lazes, reprinted in William Foote Whyte, ed., Participatory Action Research, Newbury Park, Sage Publications, pp. 19-55.
1989 Participatory Action Research: Through Practice to Science in Social Research, with William Foote Whyte and Peter Lazes, American Behavioral Scientist, Volume 32, Number 5: 513-552.