Dr. Robert Rodman received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1961, a master’s degree in mathematics in 1965, a master’s degree in linguistics in 1971, and a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1973. He was on the faculties of the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kyoto Industrial College in Japan, and North Carolina State University. Rodman was also a novelist, his work published by Boson Books in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dr. Robert Rodman passed away in January 2017, from complications related to Inclusion Body Myositis.