Alex Bentley is Professor of Anthropology at University of Tennessee (UTK) since Fall of 2017, after fourteen years at universities in England. At University of Tennessee, Bentley now teaches courses in computational social sciences, including "Data Science and Discovery," (DS 201) a core corse for the new Data Science interdisciplinary minor at UTK. Another course, “Big-data social sciences” won the 2019 UTK Student Government Association Open Education award. Bentley has co-authored three books with M.IT. Press, and published journal articles on cultural evolution past and present. Bentley served as department head three times, at University of Bristol, University of Houston and University of Tennessee. While in the UK, Bentley applied his research in occasional consultant roles for the U.K. Department of Health, Gates Foundation, Sony Electronics Europe, Unilever, Sanofi Pasteur and other companies.