University professor and anthropologist Miles Richardson died on Monday at age 79 after a battle with brain cancer, according to a news release and his colleagues in the Department of Geography and Anthropology.
Richardson was an original above all else, according to Linda Strain, assistant to the chair of the Department of Geography and Anthropology. She said she knew him for about 12 years.
“There won’t be another like him. He believed in doing what he was doing,” Strain said. “What impressed me most was his determination to never give anybody.”
Richardson also wasn’t afraid to express his opinions, Strain said. He used to wear posterboards emblazoned with his political views and march across campus.
“[He was] not shy at all,” she smiled. “But sweet, sweet, sweet as