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David H. Lempert

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David H. Lempert
Born(1959-02-12)February 12, 1959
Bronx, New York
🎓 Alma materPh.D. University of California, Berkeley (1992)
J.D., M.B.A. Stanford University (1985)
B.A. Yale University (1980)
E.D. (Hon.) Moscow External University of Humanities
💼 Occupation
Known forAnthropology, Legal studies, NGO Innovation

David Howard Lempert (February 12, 1959), is an anthropologist, author, and international development consultant. He is known primarily in the field of experiential education. He has worked on legal and political systems that includes field work in urban Russia, and for his suggestions on new ways of thinking about democracy in industrial societies.

Lempert was born in New York City to parents of Polish-Ukrainian-Moldovan-Jewish and Hungarian-Lithuanian-Jewish descent. His family moved to Hartsdale, New York and he graduated from Ardsley High School in 1976..[1]

Background[edit]

Lempert then attended Yale where he wrote for the student newspaper.[2] An undergraduate project of his, to meet everyone in his Yale class, was featured in The New York Times[3]. His undergraduate thesis won Yale's C.W. Clarke Prize in Comparative Politics,[4] and at graduation, he was selected by his classmates as the Yale 1980 Class Orator.[5] During this time, Lempert worked for Senator William Proxmire, where the Senator recognized his work to promote U.S. passage of the U.N. genocide treaty.[6] His work for Proxmire included investigating wasteful government spending.[7]

After Yale, Lempert went to Stanford Law School[8] and the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he simultaneously earned law and business degrees.[9] Lempert entered the University of California, Berkeley and completed a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1992.[9]

As a graduate student he founded the NGO Unseen America Projects, Inc., introducing and supervising field social science courses at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley.[10] In 1989, he led students from Harvard and Brown Universities to Ecuador to test a summer program in which college students would write a national development plan. The plan was later published in English as a textbook in development studies, A Model Development Plan: New Ideas and Perspectives.[11]

Academic works[edit]

Lempert has published in several fields including education, human rights[12], sustainable development policy[13], heritage protection and social science theory.[14]

His undergraduate thesis on The Survival of Democracy in Mauritius: A Demographic-Economic Explanation of Political Stability, was an attempt to link economic and demographic factors in predicting political violence and stability.[15][14]

Lempert was the first U.S. anthropologist conducting field work in urban Russia.[16] His two-volume, 1,800 page study Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy, was the first ethnography of urban Russia and the Russian legal-political system; it also expands on his demographic analysis of revolutions and internal purges, and offers an anthropological model of modern empires and how they can be contrasted.[17] Iin this work Lempert coined the phrase, "Pepsi-stroika" (a pun on the word, "perestroika") to describe changes in Russia.[18] He has written a series of books and articles to develop a new participatory democracy model[19][20]

Consulting Work and Public Sector Initiatives[edit]

His consulting work has included national sustainable development planning, political forecasting, and democratic reforms including directly at the Presidential and Prime Ministerial level dating back to the 1980s.[21][22]

In 1986, he was encouraged by Kennell Jackson Jr., to develop a seminar under Stanford's then academic courses program, SWOPSI. The course, "The Unseen America," sparked his creation of the eponymous NGO that he chaired. Lempert and other students at Stanford and Berkeley led a development planning project in Ecuador in 1988, [9] and later published a book describing their approach and several new curricula they developed, Escape from the Ivory Tower: Student Adventures in Democratic Experiential Education.[23][24]

In 1996, he was awarded an honorary pedagogy degree from the Moscow External University of the Humanities for this work.[9]

Lempert has also spearheaded a movement for a Red Book of Endangered Cultures[25], to promote cultural diversity, similar to the Red Book of Endangered Species produced by environmentalists to promote bio-diversity, has written and promoted Ethical Codes for development professionals, and has advocated for new institutions to monitor development aid and donor activities in developing countries[26][27][28]

Published books[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Lempert, David (Fall 2013). "Sharing Memories Recollections of the Ashford Avenue Middle School" (PDF). Ardsley Historical Society Newsletter. ardsleyhistoricalsociety.org.
  2. ↑ "Putting and End to Mass Murder". The Yale Daily News. 1978-09-21. The Congressional Record (1978-09-25)
  3. ↑ Henry, Diane (1977-05-08). "A Freshman Tries to Meet His Classmates". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Furse, Austen (1981-03-24). "Senior Thesis Makes Splash on African Isle". The Yale Daily News. p. 1.
  5. ↑ 1980 Commencement and Class Day. Yale Alumni Magazine. 43. Fall 1980. p. 14. Search this book on
  6. ↑ "Genocide Convention: More Than Just Our Concern". Congressional Record. 1978-09-25. p. 31350.
  7. ↑ "William Proxmire | Cover Story". Washington Post Magazine. 1978-09-24.
  8. ↑ Margolick, David (1983-05-22). "The Trouble with America's Law Schools". The New York Times Magazine. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "David Lempert". Policy Innovations. Carnegie Council.
  10. ↑ "Novel UC Class Introduces Students to 'Hidden America'". The Oakland Tribune. 1989-05-24.
  11. ↑ Lempert, David (1995). A Model Development Plan: New Ideas, New Strategies, New Perspectives. Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-275-95068-9. Search this book on
  12. ↑ Mattei, Ugo (2018). "8". An International Legal Scholar's View on "Is Economics in Violation of International Law? Remaking Economics as a Social Science"'". Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum. 8. Search this book on
  13. ↑ Söderbaum, Peter (2018). "7". An Ecological Economist's View on "Is Economics in Violation of International Law? Remaking Economics as a Social Science"'". Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum. 8. Search this book on
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Goldstone, Jack A. (2018). Social Structure in the Explanation and Prediction of Social Discontinuities: A Response to Lempert's Critique of the Multipath Forecasting Project (MFP). Cliodynamics. 9. doi:10.21237/C7clio9243671. Search this book on
  15. ↑ Lempert, David (June 1987). "A Demographic-Economic Explanation of Political Stability: Mauritius as a Microcosm". Eastern Africa Economic Review (1 ed.). 3 (1): 77–90. PMID 12342159.
  16. ↑ "U.S. Anthropologist to Study USSR Law". The Oakland Tribune. 1989-09-20.
  17. ↑ Crangan, Costel (2018-09-01). "De unde vine simbolul "secera şi ciocanul". Ce ţară l-a folosit prima şi în ce state este interzis" [Where does the symbol "sickle and hammer" come from? Which country used it first and in which states it is forbidden] (in română). Adevarul Holding.
  18. ↑ Lempert, David (1992). Pepsi-Stroika: The Colonization of Russia; an Ethnography of Russian Legal Culture During the Perestroika Period. 1. University of California, Berkeley. Search this book on
  19. ↑ Ukraine's New Constitution: Continuity Under the Banner of Change with a Proposal for Authoritarian to Democratic Transitions (PDF). Demokratizatsiya. 2. Spring 1994. Search this book on
  20. ↑ Development and Constitutional Democracy: A Set of Principles for 'Perfecting the Market'" The Journal of Developing Societies. 36. Spring 1996. Search this book on
  21. ↑ "Selon une thèse universitaire remise hier au Premier ministre, le parti travailliste perdra les élections de 1981, mais le mouvement militant mauricien protégera la démocratie mauricienne" [According to a University Thesis Given Yesterday to the Prime Minister, the Labor Party Will Lose the 1981 Elections but the Mauritius Militant Movement Will Protect Mauritian Democracy]. Le Mauricien (in français). Port Louis, Mauritius. 1980-08-06. p. 1.
  22. ↑ "Grupo prepara un plan quinquenal de desarrollo para Ecuador" [Group Prepares Five Year Development Plan for Ecuador]. El Comercio (in español). Quito, Ecuador. 1988-07-01. p. 1.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 McGuire, Peggy Martin (1998). Escape from the Ivory Tower: Student Adventures in Democratic Experiential Education. Practicing Anthropology (Review). 20. p. 44. JSTOR 24781068. Search this book on
  24. ↑ Gorlizki, Yoram (1999). Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy. Europe-Asia Studies (Review). 5. pp. 159–164. JSTOR 153552. Search this book on
  25. ↑ Lempert, David. "Why We Need a Cultural Red Book for Endangered Cultures, NOW".
  26. ↑ Lempert, David (Spring 1997). Holding the Powers that Be Accountable to Our Ethics Code to Protect Our Integrity and the Peoples We Serve (PDF). Human Rights. 24. Search this book on
  27. ↑ Lempert, David (Spring 1997). Commentary: Accountability in Anthropological Ethics. Practicing Anthropology. 19. JSTOR 24780993. Search this book on
  28. ↑ Lempert, David (Spring 1997). Holding Accountable the Powers That Be: Protecting Our Integrity and the Public We Serve. Public Administration Review. JSTOR 977307. Search this book on
  29. ↑ Dunn, Stephen P. (January 2008). Daily Life in a Crumbling Empire: The Absorption of Russia into the World Economy. 100. American Anthropologist. pp. 238–240. doi:10.1525/aa.1998.100.1.238.2. Review Search this book on


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