Frank Robert Vivelo

Frank Robert Vivelo is the author of ten books (including two novels) and ten articles in anthropology, sociology, education, and philosophy journals. He holds B.A., M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology and has spent over 30 years in higher education at Ivy League and state universities, two-year and four-year colleges, and public and private institutions—as a faculty member, department chair, dean, vice-president, and president—in addition to working in the hospitality, banking, transportation, and trucking industries.

He served in the intelligence branch of the US Air Force as an airborne Russian linguist, posted for two years in the States and two years in Japan; and, as an anthropologist, he lived among a tribe of cattle herders in the Kalahari Desert in Africa. He was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York, but has resided for various lengths of time in Arizona, California, Florida, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas.

After nearly 44 years of marriage, his wife Jacqueline, an award-winning author, passed away in 2008; and Frank is currently retired and living in Florida.