Peter Norquest is an affiliated scholar at the University of Arizona’s School of Anthropology. He is a historical linguist whose research focuses on the Southeast Asian language area, particularly Kra-Dai and Austronesian. His book, A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai, is a revised and updated version of his 2007 dissertation, and is a comprehensive account of Hlai language prehistory and phylogeny using data collected during fieldwork performed on Hǎinán in 2003-2004. He has authored and co-authored several articles on Kra-Dai and Austronesian comparative phonology, and is currently preparing a phonological reconstruction of Proto-Kra-Dai in cooperation with the Center for Research in Computational Linguistics, Inc.