Linguist; Dean of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Sociology and Global Studies; Trustee Professor of Cognitive Science, Bentley University; Author, How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention (2017), Language: The Cultural Tool (2012), Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (2009), and “The Role of Culture in Language and the Cognitive Sciences” (2018, Language and Linguistic Compass)