Maurer selected for NRC division board
Maurer selected for NRC division board
- January 16, 2015
- Leadership role will help social sciences dean advance behavioral sciences at national level
Bill Maurer, anthropology and law professor and social sciences dean, has been selected
to serve as a member of the National Research Council Board on Behavioral, Cognitive
and Sensory Sciences. The leadership role puts him in a position to advance research
in behavioral and social sciences nationally and its ties to public policy. His appointment
began in January and will run through December 2017.
Maurer is an internationally recognized expert on the anthropology of law, money and
finance. He has served in a number of administrative roles at UC Irvine while founding
two major research centers – the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Institute
for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion and Intel-supported Intel Science & Technology
Center for Social Computing – and collaborating across campus, with the business community
and with the nonprofit sector. He joined UC Irvine in 1996 as an assistant professor
of anthropology and served as chair from 2006 to 2010. In July 2011, he became the
school’s associate dean of research and graduate studies and in 2013, he was named
dean. His research has been consistently supported by the National Science Foundation.
His most recent funded project examines how new digital payment infrastructures work
with or against existing social relationships and the shifting regulatory and legal
debate over mobile phone-based payment services. He’s the author of three books, including
Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason, which won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing in 2005. He is also the
editor of six collections and serves on a number of editorial boards.
Maurer earned a master’s degree and a doctorate at Stanford University. He holds courtesy
appointments in the UC Irvine School of Law and the School of Social Ecology’s Department
of Criminology, Law & Society.
Established in 1997, the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences is in
the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE) of the National
Research Council, the operating arm of The National Academies.
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