In funding cycles I and II (2003-2013) CBD supported cross-school faculty working groups. Faculty collaborated on projects and pursued research that engaged at least two of the three areas of the study of culture, mind/brain, and human development. Faculty in these groups consulted for a semester, or entire academic year, and shared readings, provided feedback on peer presentations, developed understandings of the concepts and methodologies of different disciplines, and defined issues that could be worked on together in the future. As a result of collaborative CBD working groups, faculty-produced publications in academic journals, presentations at professional conferences, and co-taught courses.

PAST CBD FACULTY WORKING GROUPS:
Faculty participants listed alphabetically

ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013

• Creating a Center for Interpretive and Community-Engaged Research Part II: Kimberly Chang (CSI), Kristen Luschen (CSI), Rebecca Miller (HACU), Susan Tracy (HACU)
•  Feminism and Neuroscience: Exploring the Extreme Male Brain, Autism, and Popular Representations of the Autistic Subject: Jane Couperus (CS), Jennifer Hamilton (CSI), Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Angela Willey (Five College: Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and University of Massachusetts Amherst)

ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012

• Narratives of Stress, Trauma, and Resilience: Polina Barskova (HACU), Rachel Conrad (CSI), Cynthia Gill (NS), L. Brown Kennedy (HACU), Marian MacCurdy (HACU)
• Engendering Circuits of Power: A Working Group on Feminism and Neuroscience: Jane Couperus (CS), Jennifer Hamilton (CSI), Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Angela Willey (Five College: Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College and University of Massachusetts Amherst)
• Creating a Center for Interpretive and Community-Engaged Research: Kimberly Chang (CSI), Kristen Luschen (CSI), Rebecca Miller (HACU), Susan Tracy (HACU)

ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011

• Reflections on Japan: Constructing Memory through Art, Music, and Education: Melissa Burch (CS), Junko Oba (HACU), Jana Silver (IA)

ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-2010

• The Cognitive Science of Religion: Salman Hameed (NS/CS), Ryan Bongseok Joo (HACU), Laura Sizer (CS)
• Cultural/Biological Constructions of Gender: Myrna Breitbart (SS), Jane Couperus (CS), Kristen Luschen (SS), Rebecca Miller (HACU)
• Performing/Preforming Childhood: Making Sense and Nonsense of Childhood: Melissa Burch (CS), Rachel Conrad (SS), L. Brown Kennedy (HACU), Natalie Sowell (IA)
• Colour: Bill Brand (HACU), Hugh Crowl (NS/CS), Daniel Kojo Schrade (HACU), Laura Sizer (CS), Neil Stillings (CS)
• Evolutionary Thinking amongst Muslim Medical Students and Doctors (Preparation for NSF Proposal): Salman Hameed (NS/CS), Berna Turam (SS), Laura Wenk (CS)

ACADEMIC YEAR 2008-2009

• Cultural, Neural, and Developmental Phenomena in an Evolutionary Framework: Melissa Burch (CS), Mark Feinstein (CS), Charles Ross (NS), Lee Spector (CS), James Wald (SS)
• Biocultural Perspectives on Food: Alan Goodman (NS), Jennifer Hamilton (SS), Robert Rakoff (SS), Jason Tor (NS)
• Going in and out of Our Minds: Terror from the Third’s Point of View: Polina Barskova (HACU), Jane Couperus (CS), Ellen Donkin (IA), Lourdes Mattei (SS), Annie Rogers (SS)
• The Development of Evolutionary Thought in Pakistan and Turkey: Salman Hameed (NS/CS), Berna Tura (SS), Laura Wenk (CS)