Background
Benfer,, Robert Alfred was born in 1939.
Benfer,, Robert Alfred was born in 1939.
Bachelor in Psychology and Anthropology, University Texas, 1963. Master of Arts in Anthropology and Statistics, University Texas, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University Texas, 1968.
Assistant professor anthropology University Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1967-1969. Assistant professor University Missouri, Columbia, 1969-1971, associate professor, 1971-1977, chairman department anthropology, 1971-1975, professor, since 1977, co-director human skeletal identification laboratory, 1980-1984. Member National Science Foundation dissertation improvement fellowship committee, 1979, chairman 1980.
Member faculty council University Wisconsin, since 1988.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association. Member Center States Anthropological Society (executive board 1972-1975), American Association Physical Anthropologists, Society of America Archaeology, American Ethnological Society, Human Biology Council, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married; 1 child.