Background
Hulse was born in New York City in 1906 to Hiram Richard Hulse and the former Frances Burrows Seymour.
Hulse was born in New York City in 1906 to Hiram Richard Hulse and the former Frances Burrows Seymour.
He had two sisters, Mary and Charity. She died in a car accident in 1982, in which Hulse himself was injured. He became interested in anthropology after reading The Racial History of Manitoba by Roland Dixon.
Hulse was a student of Earnest Hooton.
In his publications he discussed human races in terms of evolutionary dynamics. He is also known for his work with Harry L. Shapiro on Japanese migrant studies.
He later became a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.