Roland Tharp is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Universities of Hawaii, Manoa and California, Santa Cruz. He has also taught at the University of Arizona, Stanford University and the University of Greenland. Tharp is the director of the national Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence. He has done extensive fieldwork with indigenous people, including Mayan, Polynesian, Navajo, Zuni and Inuit. Tharp is the author or co-author of the books Behavior Modification in the Natural Environment, Rousing Minds to Life, Teaching Transformed and Self-Directed Behavior. His articles have appeared in such journals as American Psychologist, American Anthropologist and Psychological Bulletin, among others. He is the laureate of the Grawemeyer Prize in Education, the Hopwood Award (Major, in Poetry), the University of Michigan and has held the Frost Fellowship of the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College.
