Merrill Singer has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Utah.  Singer is a recipient of the Rudolph Virchow Professional Prize, the George Foster Memorial Award for Practicing Anthropology, the AIDS and Anthropology Paper Prize, the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America, the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association and the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group’s Distinguished Service Award.  His contributions to the service-learning pedagogy include Anthropology courses  that encourage participant observation and other data collection strategies.

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