H. Russell Bernard is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida. He served as editor of the American Anthropologist and Human Organization. He is co-founder (with Pertti Pelto and Stephen Borgatti) of the Cultural Anthropology Methods journal (1989), which became Field Methods in 1999. The three editions of his methods text Research Methods in Anthropology (AltaMira 2002) and his general research methods text Social Research Methods (Sage 2000), have been used by tens of thousands of students. Bernard co-founded (with Pelto) and co-directed (with Pelto and Borgatti) the National Science Foundation's Institute on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology and has done fieldwork in Greece, Mexico, and the USA. His publications include (with Jesùs Salinas Pedraza) Native Ethnography: A Otomì Indian Describes His Culture (Sage, 1989) which won special mention in the Chicago Folklore Prize.