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Dawn Prince-Hughs to be 2010 Montana Pride Grand Marshal
Dawn Prince-Hughes was born January 31, 1964 in Carbondale, Illinois, is an anthropologist,
primatologist, and ethologist who received her M.A. and PhD in interdisciplinary anthropology from the Universität Herisau
in Switzerland. She is the executive chair of ApeNet Inc., has served as the executive director of the Institute for Cognitive
Archaeological Research and is associated with the Jane Goodall Institute. Prince-Hughes
is the author of Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism, Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's
Book of Days, Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood, The Archetype of the Ape-man: The Phenomenological Archaeology
of a Relic Hominid Ancestor, Adam, and the editor of Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of College Students with
Autism. Her new book, Passing As Human/Freak Nation: How I Discovered That No One Is Normal will be released
in December, 2009.
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