Pete completed his doctoral training in cultural/psychological anthropology at Emory University. He is experienced in consumer research projects, but also specializes in employee ethnographies, or Workplace Anthropology, bringing ethnographic methods to understanding organizational psychology and workplace culture.



As a Sloan Research Fellow at the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life and the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan, Pete conducted extended ethnographic research on the lives and factory experiences of auto workers. He has also done ethnographic research on work in timber mills and on Alaskan factory trawlers, exploring topics such as family models in workplace organization and play and productivity in work groups. He is currently a Research fellow at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan.



Pete’s research, sophistication, and training in psychoanalytic theory and organizational behavior introduce a powerful and novel explanatory framework for understanding the tacit social and psychological dimensions of workplace and consumer settings.