Alan Page Fiske (born 1947) is an American professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, known for studying the nature of human relationships and cross-cultural variations between them.
His father, Donald W. Fiske, was a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.
[3] Fiske earned a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in social relations from Harvard College in 1968.
He went on to earn a master's degree in 1973 and a PhD in 1985, both from the University of Chicago, focusing on cross-cultural problems and human development.
[4] His areas of research interest include psychological anthropology, social relationships, and theories of violence.