I am a professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy at Northern Kentucky University. My core research interest is discovering how humans interpret their environment and how these interpretations influence their behavior both with the environment and with others in their social group. I have done research on swidden farming rituals in Madagascar, several applied research projects with students in Northern Kentucky and in California as well as sugar cane farming in Northern Belize. I founded and now direct the Center for Applied Anthropology at NKU. The CfAA enables me to engage NKU's undergraduate students in applying anthropology to prepare students for careers and graduate school in anthropology as well as leading an ethnographic field school each summer. For more information, visit my website at dwhume.com.