Hector Qirko

Professor of Anthropology

Address: 88 Wentworth Street, Room 105
E-mail: qirkoh@cofc.edu
Personal Website: http://qirkoh.people.cofc.edu/


Education

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Dissertation: "Induced Altruism in the Maintenance of Institutionalized Celibacy"

M.A., Anthropology, University of Tennessee

B.A. with highest honors, Anthropology, University of Tennessee

Research Interests

  • Applied anthropology
  • Organizational and institutional cultures
  • Evolutionary theory and cultural patterning
  • Popular culture and identity

Courses Taught

  • ANTH 101: Introduction to Anthropology
  • ANTH 201: Cultural Anthropology
  • ANTH 210: Development of Anthropological Thought
  • ANTH 319: Special Topic: Anthropology and Business
  • ANTH 319: Special Topic: Popular Culture and Identity
  • ANTH 325: Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
  • ANTH 342: Human Behavior and Evolution
  • ANTH 345: Applied Anthropology
  • ANTH 362: Social and Cultural Change
  • ANTH 491: Research Methods
  • FYSM 103: Identity and Popular Culture

Publications

2021 Qirko, H. N. “The role of culture in evolutionary theories of human cooperation.” Analyse & Kritik 43(1):169-190. https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0009

2021 Qirko, H. N. “What is a ‘critter’? Potential problems with the scientific community’s use of informal language to describe non-human species.” Language & Ecology. http://ecolinguistics-association.org/journal.

2020 Qirko, H. N. “Altruistic punishment in modern intentional communities.” Interaction Studies 21(3):412-427. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.19011.qir

2020 Morris, D.S & Qirko, H.N. “Saving ‘Little Sister’: A Test of the Effectiveness of Kinship Appeals in Conservation Marketing. Environmental Communication 14(4):481-491. DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2019.1687102

2019 Qirko, H.N. “‘Dumb’ Performance as a Marker of Authenticity.” Popular Music and Society 42(4):470-482. DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2018.1482703

2017 Qirko, H.N. "Kinship Appeals and Conservation Social Marketing." Biodiversity and Conservation 26(5):1009-1026. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-017-1297-9

2016 Qirko, H.N. "An Evolutionary Argument for Unconscious Personal Death Unawareness.” Mortality 22(3):255-269. DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2016.1176018

2014 Qirko, H.N. "Organizational Structures and Practices are a Better Predictor of Suicide Terror Threats than Individual Psychological Dispositions.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37:374-375. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X13003464

2014 Qirko, H.N. “Current Trends in Cultural Particularism: The Problem Does Seem to Lie with Anthropology.” Topics in Cognitive Science 6:155-156. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12054

2014 Qirko, H.N. "Consumer Authentication of Popular Music in the Global Postmodern.” Popular Music and Society 37(3):291-312. DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2013.798552

2013 Qirko, H.N. “Induced Altruism in Religious, Military, and Terrorist Organizations.”  Cross-Cultural Research 47(2):131-161. DOI: 10.1177/1069397112471804

2011 Qirko, H.N. “Fictive Kinship and Induced Altruism.” In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Family Psychology, C. Salmon and T. Shackelford (Eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 310-328.

Earlier publications at https://qirkoh.people.cofc.edu/