Biography

William W. Donner is a professor of anthropology at Kutztown University. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Donner completed over three and a half years of ethnographic research on Sikaiana, a Polynesian people in the Solomon Islands. He also has researched Pennsylvania German (Dutch) history, culture and heritage. He developed a website about Sikaiana and written a book about the Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges: Serious Nonsense: Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge and Pennsylvania German Heritage.

Presentations

• Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges
• Life on a Polynesian Island

Contact

Interested in having William Donner speak to your group? E-mail him.