in the 1960s, diamond was a member of the research team, the first to study schizophrenia from a cultural perspect, at the national institute of mental health. after a professorship at the maxwell graduate faculty at syracuse university, he moved to the new school for social research in 1966, where he founded the new school's anthropology program. within a few years, the program developed into the first critical department of anthropology in the u.s., where diamond served as the department chair until 1983. he became the distinguished professor of anthropology and humanities at the new school and also poet in the university. diamond later taught as visiting professor in berlin and mexico and at bard college.