Laurence Kruckman is a medical anthropologist, educator, and writer whose work has appeared in numerous academic journals, including American Anthropologist, Social Science and Medicine, and Medical Anthropology. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, Humboldt State University, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he received multiple awards for teaching and research, including Professor of the Year. A founding board member of Postpartum Support International, he helped develop resources that continue to support families around the world. After a forty-year academic career, Kruckman returned to his rural boyhood home in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region, where he began documenting the people, places, and experiences that shaped his life. Driftless Anthology is the result of that journey home.
