David F. Lancy

David Lancy (born 1945) is an American anthropologist and professor emeritus at Utah State University. He has made original contributions to the comparative study of childhood development and the concept of "chore curriculum." In 2001, he was awarded the Carnegie Foundation's Professor of the Year.

Education and early career David Lancy was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in 1967 from Yale University, a master's degree in psychology from University of California, Irvine in 1969, and a Ph.D. in International and Development Education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1975. In 1979, he was an N.I.M.H. fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected publications

Awards 1989 Fulbright Fellowship, Trinidad & Tobago 1995 Fulbright Fellowship, Sweden 2001 Professor of the Year, Carnegie Foundation