William Green most recently served as director of the Logan Museum of Anthropology and chair of Museum Studies at Beloit College (Wisconsin). Previously, he served as director of the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist and as staff archaeologist for the Historic Preservation Division, State Historical Society of Wisconsin. He has authored numerous monographs and articles about midwestern archaeology, ethnobotany, and ethnohistory. He now resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.