ObituaryLarry Naylor
Submitted on Monday, August 23, 2010
Larry Naylor, Hunt, professor and chair of anthropology who worked at UNT from 1978
to 2005, died June 17. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the State
University of New York at Geneseo and his doctoral degree from Southern Illinois University.
Naylor completed social-cultural fieldwork in Papua, New Guinea, and Ecuador and was
on the anthropology faculty at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks before joining
North Texas as director of the anthropology program. He helped develop the Department
of Anthropology and served as chair for 14 years. He published six books and developed
many online courses over his career. Naylor was a U.S. Army paratrooper with the Special
Forces and was stationed at Fort Knox, Ky., during the Vietnam War. Memorial donations
may be made to the Larry L. Naylor Anthropology Student Scholarship.