Dr. Marjorie M. Snipes was born in Charleston, SC and earned degrees in anthropology from The College of William and Mary and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She has traveled and worked for extensive periods of time in the Andean regions of Peru and Argentina and often freelances as a content editor for introductory anthropology texts. She presently teaches as Professor of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia and lives in Carrollton, GA with her son and multiple other species.