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name: John W. Traphagan
about: Also writes as J.W. TraphaganI am an anthropologist and professor emeritus in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in anthropology, hold an MAR degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School, and a BA in political science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. My postdoctoral research was conducted as a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan. I was also a Fulbright scholar to Japan in the 1990s.Having become bored with traditional academic writing I recently started using my experience as an anthropologist to write for a general audience. The first example of this is my new ant Also writes as J.W. TraphaganI am an anthropologist and professor emeritus in Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in anthropology, hold an MAR degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School, and a BA in political science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. My postdoctoral research was conducted as a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Center of the University of Michigan. I was also a Fulbright scholar to Japan in the 1990s.Having become bored with traditional academic writing I recently started using my experience as an anthropologist to write for a general audience. The first example of this is my new anthropological memoir, Embracing Uncertainty: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures. Later in 2021, my first ethnographic mystery novel, The Blood of Gutoku, will be published. ...more