Introducing Cultural Anthropology: Essential Readings

David Julian Hodges, PhD is professor of anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he has served with distinction in several capacities: Dean, School of Education; Chairperson, Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies; and President of the Faculty. Dr. Hodges has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Cajuns of Southwestern Louisiana, and the Iban of Borneo. He received his BA degree from Morris Brown College in Atlanta. He received his MA and PhD degrees from New York University, under the tutelage of anthropologist Ethel J. Alpenfels. Dr. Hodges has done post-doctoral study at Harvard and Oxford Universities.