Barry S. Hewlett is an American evolutionary anthropologist and author widely celebrated for his groundbreaking ethnographies on hunter-gatherer cultures and the biocultural contexts of disease. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Hewlett held a series of diverse international academic appointments, serving on the faculty at Tulane University, Kyoto University in Japan, and Hawassa University and Arba Minch University in Ethiopia, before spending the core of his domestic career at Washington State University.
