Roland Tharp is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Universities of Hawaii, Manoa, and of California, Santa Cruz. He has done extensive fieldwork with indigenous people, including Mayan, Polynesian, Navajo, Zuni, and Inuit. Tharp is the author or co-author of the social science books Delta Theory and Psychosocial Systems, Behavior Modification in the Natural Environment, Rousing Minds to Life, Teaching Transformed, and Self-Directed Behavior, and two collections of poems, Highland Station and Mad With Flowers and Tears. 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.