William Divale
William Tulio Divale was a professor of anthropology at York College, City University of New York in Jamaica, New York, USA. He died in 2020 at the age of 78.
Divale was a past chairman of the Social Sciences Department. He received his PhD degree from the University at Buffalo in 1974. He is the publisher of the
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He has received two medals for one of his specialties, cross-cultural studies. He was also Past President of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and is the current president again.
He also co-authored the book I Lived Inside The Campus Revolution, and authored Matrilocal Residence In Pre-Literate Societies. He has also authored over 25 publications in scientific journals.
He has conducted fieldwork in La Gomera, Canary Islands, and in the Republic of Moldova .
Divale admitted to being a government spy and informant. The known account of this is disclosed in his book I Lived Inside the Campus Revolution.