Melvin (Mel) Firestone, 87, passed away on August 19, 2018. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1967 and was a member of ASU’s Department of Anthropology faculty for more than 30 years, retiring in 2003 as Emeritus Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology. Mel was a psychological anthropologist interested in marine anthropology, religion and psychology. He was known for his work with fishing communities in Newfoundland (Savage Cove) and in Devonshire. He also published on the Sephardim, Jews of Iberian descent who’ve retained their own distinctive customs and rituals. His wife, the late Sharon Firestone, was also an anthropologist who studied the lives of women in Savage Cove, the basis for her ASU Ph.D. dissertation in History (2006). (Source: Geoffrey A. Clark, Ph.D., Regents’ Professor Emeritus, School of Human Evolution and Social Change)