Robert L. Kelly received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985.  He is a past president of the Society for American Archaeology, and currently a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming.  His research interests include the evolutionary ecology of hunter-gatherer societies and archaeological method and theory.  His influential book on hunter-gatherer subsistence, The Foraging Spectrum, was the 1996 choice for Outstanding Academic Book.