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Kevin Tuite (Irish:Caoimhín de Tiúit; born April 3, 1954) is a fullProfessor ofAnthropology at theUniversité de Montréal. He is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland.[1] His special interest is inCaucasian linguistics, and he has occasionally published on the topic ofGeorgian mythology.
Tuite was born 3 April 1954, inSouth Bend, Indiana, USA. He received a BA inchemical engineering fromNorthwestern University in 1976, and a Ph.D. inlinguistics from theUniversity of Chicago in 1988. Hisdoctoral thesis was "Number agreement and morphosyntactic orientation in the Kartvelian languages".[2] From 1991 on, he has been a member of the faculty at Université de Montréal:professeur adjoint 1991–1996,professeur agrégé 1996–2002,professeur titulaire 2002–present. From 2010 through 2014 he was the Chair of Caucasian studies atFriedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.[1]