Jon R. Moris (1939-2015) was an anthropologist and educator whose career spanned East Africa and the United States. Born in Kiomboi, Tanzania, to Lutheran missionaries Dr. Stanley W. Moris and Edith Okerlund, he was raised in Bumbuli and educated at the Rift Valley Academy in Kenya. After returning to the United States in 1957, he earned degrees from Seattle Pacific and Northwestern University, completing his Ph.D. in Anthropology with research conducted in East Africa. From the 1960s through the late 1970s, Moris taught and conducted research at Makerere University, the University of Nairobi, and the University of Dar es Salaam, and served as team leader for Tanzania’s Masai Range Project from 1973 to 1976. In 1980, he joined the faculty at Utah State University in Logan, later retiring as Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Utah State University Eastern in Blanding, Utah.