David Howes

Professor, Sociology and Anthropology

Biography Teaching activities Research activities Publications Presentations Research Sampler, 2000-2010

Email:	david.howes@concordia.ca
Website(s):	http://www.david-howes.com/ http://www.sensorystudies.org/ http://sixthsensereader.org/ http://canadianicon.org/ http://lawandthesenses.org/ http://www.centreforsensorystudies.org/ https://www.sensorydesign.ca/
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ORCID:	0000-0002-6199-4358

David Howes is a Canadian anthropologist and legal scholar. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, and (since 2012) an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.

Howes is best known as a pioneer of the anthropology of the senses and theorist of the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies. He has authored, co-athored or edited 14 books, ranging from The Varieties of Sensory Experience (1991) to Sensorial Investigations (2023). He has published numerous journal articles in such fields as medical anthropology, psychology of perception, sensory museology, material culture, and cross-cultural aesthetics as well as Canadian and US constitutional law, legal pluralism and cross-cultural jurisprudence.

Howes co-founded the journal The Senses and Society (with Michael Bull, Paul Gilroy and Doug Kahn) in 2006, and has served as the general editor of the Sensory Formations book series (2003–2009) and the new 500 Internal Server Error

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