Who is Professor Verne Dusenberry from Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals and what is their importance?

Professor Verne Dusenberry is a professor at the Montana State College in the 1960s. He was raised in Bozeman, Montana, and he has been teaching at the college for over twenty years. His fellow staff members note that he is obsessed with Native Americans and their culture. The Indians say he is a "good" man, a description idea that helps Phaedrus sum up his theories. Dusenberry introduces Phaedrus to the idea that anthropology, as a field of study, is a flawed thing, and he explains to him the trouble with the "objective approach."