Robert Borofsky

Robert Borofsky is the Director of the Center for a Public Anthropology and a Professor of Anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University and Co-Editor of the California Series in Public Anthropology. Borofsky has authored or edited six books, most notably Yanomami: The Fierce Controversy, Remembrance of Pacific Pasts and Why a Public Anthropology? MIT’s Noam Chomsky wrote of the last book, “This provocative study sets ambitious goals for what might be achieved by a public anthropology and offers ways to carry forward a project that could be far-reaching in its consequences.” Borofsky is also webmaster for the Center’s Community Action Project which, each year involves 20-30 universities from across North America in an ethical op-ed writing exercise addressed to key decision makers in the United States government. The project was responsible for changing a regulation at the National Science Foundation to include the specification of outcomes and benefits for NSF funded projects following their completion.