Robert Gurevich is an Applied Anthropologist specializing in education and development. In addition to service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand, he undertook long-term assignments in Indonesia, Somalia, Albania, and Ethiopia, along with short-term work in more than thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
He served as Executive Associate for Asia with the Foreign Area Fellowship Program, as Executive Director of the Center for PVO/University Collaboration in Development, and as Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors for the USAID-funded Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program. He taught Anthropology at State University of New York–College at Brockport and at Western Carolina University.
The Razor’s Edge is his first novel