Biography
Robert Blust was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and raised in California. He received a B.A. in anthropology and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 1974. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and served as the department chair from 2005 to 2008.
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