Fetterman, David M.

(b. 1954, Danielson, Connecticut). Ph.D. Educational and Medical Anthropology, M.A. Education, M.A. Anthropology, Stanford University; B.A. Anthropology, B.S. History of Science, University of Connecticut.

Fetterman is a member of the faculty and Director of the MA (master's program) Policy Analysis and Evaluation Program in the School of Education at Stanford University. He was formerly Professor and Research Director at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research, and Senior Associate and Project Director at RMC Research Corporation. He has conducted fieldwork in both Israel (including living on a kibbutz) and the United States (primarily in inner cities across the country).

Fetterman has contributed to the theory and practice of evaluation through the use of cultural or anthropological theories and field ...