before moving to Chicago. For a brief period he worked at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand and Canada. He served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in Zhuhai, and in Chicago as a Field Museum of Natural History's adjunct curator of anthropology. He has studied the cultures of South India, and has been working with the Badagas for more than 50 years. He has researched their medical anthropology, culture and language. Awards In 2015, he was awarded the Nilgiris Lifetime Achievement Award by the Nilgiri Documentation Centre; and in 2016, a Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Visual Anthropology. Works Hockings made several documentaries and published about 20 books and more than 200 papers. Books Selected papers Documentaries See also Colin Young David G. Mandelbaum References External links 1935 births University of Sydney alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Illinois Chicago faculty Anthropological linguists Visual anthropologists Medical anthropologists Anthropology educators 21st-century anthropologists English anthropologists English documentary filmmakers Living people