Antone Kimball Romney

Professor A. Kimball Romney is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at UC Irvine. He held several academic positions at Harvard University, University of Chicago and Stanford University prior to joining U.C. Irvine. Professor Romney’s recent research has focused on human color vision ranging from cross-cultural studies of color perception to representing physical reflectance spectra in low dimensional Euclidean space. Other research interests include comparative cognitive studies of semantic structures, the measurement of cultural knowledge using culture consensus theory, and multidimensional scaling. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1956-57 and is  a current Member of the National Academy of Sciences.