Contributors to the issue: Historical Dynamics and Development of Complex Societies
De Munck, Victor
Victor de Munck is an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of the State University of New York -- New Paltz. His specialty is cognitive anthropology; he has published one monograph (Culture, Self and Meaning) on this subject and 15 articles on describing the...
Klüver, Jürgen
Jürgen Klüver is ProfessorEmeritus of Information Technologies and Educational Processes, Essen, Germany. Current research interests include the analysis of social and cognitive complex systems by computer based mathematical models, in particular the evolutionary...
Malkov, Artemy
Artemy Malkov is PhD and senior research scientist at the Institute of Economics of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of a monograph Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Compact Macromodels of the World System Growth (2006 with Andrey Korotayev and Daria Khalturina)....
Spencer, Charles S.
Charles S.Spencer is Curator of Mexican and Central American Archaeology in the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA. His research focuses on the cultural evolution of complex societies in prehistory. He has conducted archaeological...
Turchin, Peter
Russian-American scientist, specializing in population biology and "cliodynamics" — mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies. Peter Turchin has made contributions to population ecology and historical dynamics....
Korotayev, Andrey
Head and Professor of the Laboratory for Monitoring of Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, as well as a Senior Research Professor at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of...
Grinin, Leonid
Leonid E. Grinin is Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, as well as Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies. His current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, long-term trends and sociocultural evolution (especially of technology), periodization of history, world-systems studies, long-term development of political systems, globalization studies, and economic cycles. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 22 monographs.
