Robert Lemelson

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Robert Bush Lemelson is an American cultural anthropologist^[1] and film producer.^[2] He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[1] Lemelson's area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology. He is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, and an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA. His scholarly work has appeared in journals and books.^[2] Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 2008,^[3] a documentary production company, and has directed and produced numerous ethnographic films.^[4]

Lemelson is involved in a number of philanthropic ventures. He is the president of The Foundation for Psychocultural Research,^[5] a research foundation that supports work integrating the social and neurosciences. He also acts a director for The Lemelson Foundation,^[6] a foundation started by his father Jerome Lemelson to support inventors, invention and innovation in the United States and the developing world. Lemelson has also funded a number of programs supporting scholarship and research in Anthropology through the Robert Lemelson Foundation, which is a separate foundation from The Lemelson Foundation.^{[citation needed]} These include the Lemelson Anthropological Scholars program at UCLA, and the Lemelson-SPA conference fund and the Lemelson-SPA student fellows program administered by the Society for Psychological Anthropology.