Bernard, who is director of ASU's Institute for Social Science Research,[3] is also a professor emeritus of anthropology of the University of Florida.
[1] He then continued at the University of Illinois, doing graduate work in the area of quantitative data analysis with his thesis adviser Edward Bruner, getting his Ph.D. in 1968.
[8] Bernard (together with physicist Peter Killworth whom he met in 1972 while both were working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) designed the "reverse small world" experiment (1978).
[12] Writing in The Washington Post in 2008, Joel Garreau called Bernard "a grand old man of endangered-language research.
[18] The "methods camp" summer training program in cultural anthropology was started, with NSF support, by Bernard and Pertti Pelto in 1987.