David Guillet is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Catholic University. His specialties include ecological anthropology, natural resource management particularly irrigation and common property regimes. David's interest in Anthropology began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia from 1966 to 1968. From there he entered graduate school at the University of Texas and received the Ph.D in 1974 with a dissertation on the Peruvian Agrarian Reform.  His subsequent research in the Andean countries has focused on mountain ecological systems and natural resource management. 

David's current project is an historical and ethnographic study of irrigation in northwestern Spain. It began in 1991 and supported by the National Science Foundation. In the fall of 1998, he takes over as President for two years of the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association.  

Recent publications include Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian highlands (University of Michigan Press) and articles in Current Anthropology, Comparative Studies in Society and History and Culture and Agriculture.