Frank Robert Vivelo, an anthropologist, college administrator, and author, retired from academia in 2004 after over 30 years in higher education, having served as a faculty member, dean, vice-president, and president.
His major ethnographic research was conducted among the Herero cattle herders in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, Africa; and other significant anthropological research concerned the operations of the federal Work Incentive (WIN) program and the ethnography of WIN client populations in three major U.S. cities.
Since retiring, his major intellectual pursuits have included Hellenistic philosophy, ethics and morality, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution and its ideological foundations, and the continuing impact of our evolutionary past on current social arrangements.
Vivelo earned his B.A. from the University of Tennessee and two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from Rutgers. In addition to higher education, Vivelo has worked in the banking, trucking, travel, and hospitality industries.
His publications include novels, as well as books and articles concerning anthropology, education, philosophy, neurobiology, sociology, and literature.
Vivelo was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He served in the intelligence branch of the U.S. Air Force as an airborne Russian linguist from 1961 to 1965, two years of which were spent in Japan. He was married for nearly 44 years to Jacqueline Jones Vivelo, an award-winning author of more than 15 books, who died in 2008. He currently resides in northern California.
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