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

Professor Verne Dusenberry is one of Phaedrus' co-workers at Montana State College in the 1960s. He was raised in Bozeman, Montana and has been teaching at the college for over 20 years. He is very interested in Native Americans and their culture. Phaedrus attends the vision quest ceremony on the Indian reservation with Dusenberry, as event that alters his point of view and sends him down a new philosophical path. Dusenberry introduces Phaedrus to the idea that anthropology as a field of study is a flawed thing, explaining to him the trouble with the "objective approach."