Daryl Frazetti, Ph.D

2014 Bio

Daryl is an anthropologist who teaches at Western Nevada College in Carson City, NV. He has spent the last several years teaching courses in Star Trek, Star Wars, Middle Earth, Xenolinguistics, and Firefly. He also has published on Star Trek fandom culture, fan film making, and conventions as participatory myth. Currently, he is writing several papers based upon convention work for Popular Anthropology and working on data collection on fans for his forthcoming text, Anthropology of Star Trek. He has been speaking at conventions, high schools, and colleges since 2007 and teaching specialty courses since 2006, and has done consultation work on science fiction productions and publications since 2010.