Dr. Hoffman received his B.A. degree with honors in Anthropology from the University of Illinois in 1959. He completed his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Harvard University in 1971 with a specialization in archeology. He has been employed by the University of Arkansas since 1964.

Dr. Hoffman's areas of research and teaching are Archeology of the Southeastern United States, particularly the Mississippi and Protohistoric periods, the history of archeology of the Southeast, and Native American ethnohistory and ethnology. He has also Curator of Anthropology at the University Museum.

• The Terminal Mississippian Period in the Arkansas River Valley and Quapaw Ethnogenesis. In David Dye and Cheryl Cox, editors. Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. pp. 208-26, 1990.

• The Depopulation and Abandonment of Northeastern Arkansas in the Protohistoric Period. In James Stoltmen, editor, Archeology of Eastern North America, Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams. Archeological Report No. 25, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Jackson, Mississippi. pp. 261-78, 1993.

• The Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi 1541-1543. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 1993