Paul Michael Taylor
Paul Michael Taylor

Paul Michael Taylor is a research anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where he is director of the Asian Cultural History Program, and curator of Asian, European, and Middle Eastern ethnology. Taylor has published an online edition of source materials and critical interpretations, By Aeroplane to Pygmyland: Revisiting the 1926 Dutch and American Expedition to New Guinea, and is preparing another online publication of the edited field notes and correspondence of Smithsonian scientist WL Abbott. Taylor also serves as senior consultant for social and resettlement issues for the World Bank Inspection Panel, and has participated in investigations of social and environmental safeguards on development projects in China, Paraguay/Argentina, and Cambodia.