Paul William Friedrich

Paul Freidrich is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Linguistics, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He has done field work in southwestern Mexico, south India, and among Russians. Other research includes the Aphrodite myth in Ancient Greece, and Proto-Indo-European and American poetry. His current research is divided between anthropology and literary studies (Homeric Greek, Tolstoy, and Thoreau), and theoretical problems in ethnography, poetics, semiotics, and politics. In 2007 he received the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University. His most recent book is A Goldfinch Instant: Concord to India Haikus (2010).