Frederic Gleach found anthropology and archaeology in his second go at college. He completed his undergraduate studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, then completed his PhD in anthropology at the University of Chicago. He has done archaeological work in Virginia, Illinois, and Spain. His first book, Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of Cultures, was developed from his doctoral thesis. With Regna Darnell, he was a founding editor of the series Histories of Anthropology Annual; they also co-edited (and wrote many entries for) Celebrating a Century of the American Anthropological Association: Presidential Portraits - a collection of short intellectual biographies of the AAA's presidents that gives an interesting perspective on the discipline in the US. Gleach is currently Senior Lecturer and Curator of the Anthropology Collections at Cornell University.