Don Brenneis

Brenneis' father worked for the United States Forestry Service. As a result, the family lived in various locations while he was growing up, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Taos, New Mexico. In 1963, Brenneis entered Stanford University. He spent part of 1964 as an exchange student at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan and part of 1965 in Vienna, Austria. He received his bachelor's degree in I967 and volunteered with the Peace Corps in Nepal from I967-1968. In 1969 Brenneis married Wynne Scott Furth, a Stanford classmate and a Harvard University law student. Both Brenneis and Furth traveled to Fiji and did field work focusing on the anthropology of law and conflict. Furth's legal training and experience in municipal and administrative law has enriched Brenneis' analysis of dispute resolution. Brenneis received his Ph.D. in social anthropology in 1974 ==Career==

Brenneis spent I973-1974 as a post-doctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at Pitzer College in Claremont, California from 1973 to 1996, and was acting dean of the faculty in 1985. Brenneis joined the department of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996, as professor and chair of the anthropology board of studies. He has worked with a diaspora community in Fiji for many years, studying the connections between language, music, conflict, law, and politics, ==Awards==

• 1969-1973, Harvard University fellow • 1976, Haynes Foundation fellow • 1976, National Endowment for Humanities scholar • 1986–1987, Pitzer College fellow • 2017, Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology, American Anthropological Association ==Works==