Bryan Cummins

Bryan Cummins, PhD is an anthropologist who has conducted field and archival research in Canada, the UK, France, and the US. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books in the fields of anthropology, history and cynology. Among his dog books are The Working Airedale (nominated for The Dog Writers Association of American Breed Book of the Year 1995), Airedales - the Oorang Story, Colonel Richardson's Airedales - the making of the British War Dog School 1900 - 1918 (this was the basis for...See more

Bryan Cummins, PhD is an anthropologist who has conducted field and archival research in Canada, the UK, France, and the US. He is the author or co-author of over a dozen books in the fields of anthropology, history and cynology. Among his dog books are The Working Airedale (nominated for The Dog Writers Association of American Breed Book of the Year 1995), Airedales - the Oorang Story, Colonel Richardson's Airedales - the making of the British War Dog School 1900 - 1918 (this was the basis for "The Dogs of War" on BBC-TV's series Inside Out), The Terriers of Scotland and Ireland, the critically acclaimed First Nations, First Dogs - Canadian aboriginal ethnocynology, Pyrenean Partners: herding and guarding dogs in the French Pyrenees (with Patricia Lore), and Our Debt to the Dog: how the domestic dog helped shape human societies (winner of three awards from the Dog Writers Association of America in 2013 including best book in the category Human-Animal Bond and Book of the Year). See less