Wendell H. Oswalt received a Ph.D. from University of Arizona in 1959. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught for thirty-two years. His research has examined Native American cultures, with particular attention to the Yupik-speaking people in Southwestern Alaska and Inuit-speaking people in Northern Alaska and Canada. In particular, he has conducted archeological fieldwork in the Kotzebue-Kobuk River area (1947), the Bering Sea Coast and St. Lawrence Island ((1948), the Hooper Bay region (1950), at Katmai National Monument ((1954), and later at Kolmakovski Redoubt along the Kuskokwim River (1966-67). He also conducted research regarding Erik the Red in Iceland. Dr. Oswalt has written on a number of topics, such as Eskimo pre-history, a community study of Western Native Alaskans, and a study of Moravian missions in Alaska. Most recently, he wrote an article entitled: “Maturing Human Minds and Early Subsistance Technoevolution: A Synopsis” (2012). Several of his publications are housed in the Alaska State Library Historical Collections.