John Bengtson (M.A., Scandinavian, 1978)

John Bengtson has been re-elected vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP). He is editor of the ASLIP annual journal Mother Tongue. His book In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the Four Fields of Anthropology in honor of Harold Crane Fleming was published in 2008. He is also involved in the Evolution of Human Language Project, sponsored by Murray Gell-Mann and the Santa Fe Institute.