Pascal Boyer
Pascal Robert Boyer is an American anthropologist of French origin, renowned for his work in the cognitive science of religion.
He taught at the University of Cambridge for eight years before becoming the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University in St. Louis.
Boyer has been a Guggenheim Fellow and visiting professor at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Lyon.
He studied philosophy and anthropology at the University of Paris and Cambridge, working with Jack Goody on memory constraints in oral literature transmission.
Boyer's research focuses on how human cognition shapes social structures and cultural practices.
