Since 1989 I have been teaching at the University of North Florida, where I am currently an associate professor of Anthropology. I came to linguistics and anthropology after teaching Spanish as a Peace Corps Volunteer on Carriacou, Grenada, 1971-74. From this experience I developed a deep and abiding interest, some might say obsession, with the role of “non-standard” languages in education, and this is reflected in my doctoral research. As a four-field trained anthropologist, I teach and write about a range of topics that includes language, human evolution, human biological and cultural diversity, and the uses of Anthropology in helping to explain and solve human problems. As a scientific anthropologist, I am dedicated to research that is empirically based and that has the potential to lead to nomothetic explanations of human nature.

Note: Although this page says “blog,” the real blog can be accessed by the link at upper right that reads “Blog.”  I’m working on fixing this.