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GEORGE J. GUMERMAN, PH.D.
CURRICULUM VITAE
POSITIONS HELD
Interim President – School of American Research
P.O. Box 2188, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504
www.sarweb.org
External Professor, The Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Ph. 505-946-2747, Fax. 505-982-0565
www.santafe.edu
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, 1956-1958.
B.S.: Columbia University, 1958-1961.
M.A., Ph.D.: University of Arizona, 1961-1964; 1966-1969
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
1965 – 1966 Museum of Northern Arizona, Curator of Anthropology
1968 – 1970 Prescott College, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
1970 – 1973 Prescott College, Associate Professor of Anthropology
1973 – 1976 Associate Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1976 – 1979 Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1976 – 1991 Professor of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1978 – 1991 Founding Director, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1979 – 1980 Resident Scholar, School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1985 – 1986 Vice President and President-Elect, Society of Professional Archaeologists
1986 – 1987 President, Society of Professional Archaeologists
1992 – 2000 Science Steering Committee, The Santa Fe Institute
1992 – present Board of Trustees, Member, Western National Parks and Monuments Association
1997 – 2001 Director, Arizona State Museum and Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona
2001 – 2004 Vice President for Academic Affairs, The Santa Fe Institute
1989 – 2003 Amerind Foundation, Member, Board of Trustees
2003 – present Amerind Foundation, Vice President, Board of Trustees
2004 – present School of American Research – Interim President
RESEARCH
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SPECIALTIES
Artificial Societies and Agent-Based Modeling, Archaeological Cooperatives,
Cultural Ecology, The American Southwest and Oceania.
RESEARCH GRANTS RECEIVED
Since 1967, three grants from the National Science Foundation; three
from the National Endowment for the Humanities; two from the Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research; one each from the U.S. Geological
Survey, National Geographic Society, NASA, and the National Park
Service;
and multi-year
funding
by Peabody Coal Company, for a total of approximately $7,800,000.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
1966 – 1970 Wenner-Gren Fellowship
1979 – 1980 National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1980 Nominated for the AAAS Cleveland-Newcomb Prize for outstanding article published in Science
1981 Weatherhead Traveling Fellow, "China Through Scholars' Eyes"
1982 Sigma Xi, Kaplan Research Award, presented by SIUC chapter; Delta Award, Friends of Morris Library
1988 Bronze Medal Award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education for People of the Mesa co-authored with S. Powell
1989 Outstanding Scholar Award, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1992 Emil W. Haury Award, presented by the Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
1993 Distinguished Service Award, Society for American Archaeology
1995 Theory and Practice in the Southwest and Micronesia:
Symposium in Honor of G. J. Gumerman, Annual meetings of
the Society for American Archaeology, 1995
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS:
(22; SELECTED EXAMPLES)
1970 Black Mesa: Survey and Excavation in Northeastern Arizona 1968. Prescott College Studies in Anthropology,
No. 2.
1971 Editor, The Distribution of Prehistoric Population Aggregates,
Proceedings of the Southwestern Anthropological Research Group. Prescott College Anthropological Reports,
No. 1.
1972 Archaeological Investigations on Black Mesa. The 1969-1970 Seasons
(With D. Westfall and C. Weed). Prescott College Studies in Anthropology,
No. 4.
1977 Conservation Archaeology: A Guide to Cultural Resource Management Studies.
Edited with M. Schiffer. Academic Press, New York.
1978 Investigations of the Southwestern Anthropological Research
Group: An Experiment in Archaeological Cooperation. Proceedings of
the 1976 Conference. Edited with R. C. Euler. Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin,
50.
1981 An Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Palau Archipelago, Western
Caroline Islands, Micronesia. (With David Snyder and W. Bruce Masse.) Southern Illinois University Center for Archaeological Investigations Research Paper,
No. 23.
1984 A View from Black Mesa: Changing Perspectives in Southwestern Archaeology.
The University of Arizona Press.
Prehistoric Cultural Development in Central Arizona: Archaeology of the Upper New River Region.
(Editor, with Patricia M. Spoerl.) Center for Archaeological Investigations,
Occasional Papers, No. 5. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1987 People of the Mesa: The Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona (with
S. Powell). Southern Illinois University Press and Southwest Parks
and Monuments Association.
1988 The Anasazi in a Changing Environment (editor),
School of American Research and the Cambridge University Press.
The Archaeology of the Hopi Buttes District, Northern Arizona,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Center for Archaeological
Investigations, Research Paper No. 49.
Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory, edited with L.
Cordell. Inquiries in Archaeology. Smithsonian Institution Press,
Washington, D.C.
1991 Exploring the Hohokam: Prehistoric Desert People of the American Southwest (editor),
University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Themes in Southwest Prehistory (editor), School
of American Research Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest (editor
with Murray Gell-Mann), Addison/Wesley Press. Santa Fe Institute
Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
2000 Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies (editor
with Timothy A. Kohler), Oxford University Press. Santa Fe Institute
Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS:
(SELECTED EXAMPLES)
1966 "Two Basketmaker II Pithouse Villages in Eastern Arizona: A Preliminary Report." Plateau,
Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 80-87.
1968 "A Synthesis of the Prehistory of the Central Little Colorado Valley, Arizona." (With S. Alan Skinner.) American Antiquity,
Vol. 33, No. 21, pp. 185-199.
1969 "Infrared Scanning Images: An Archaeological Application." (With G. G. Schaber.) Science,
Vol. 164, pp. 712-713. (American Association for the Advancement
of Science.)
1971 "Archaeological Methodology and Remote Sensing." (With Thomas L. Lyons.) Science,
Vol. 172, pp. 126-132. (American Association for the Advancement
of Science.)
"An Archaeological Survey of the Tehuacán Valley, Mexico: A Test of Color
Infrared Photography." (With James A. Neely.) American Antiquity,
Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 520-528.
1972 "Película Infraroja en Trabajos Arquelógicos." (With
James A. Neely.) In Boletín de Instituto Nacional de Anthropología
E Historia,
Epoca II Enero-Marzo, pp. 51-54.
"SARG: A Cooperative Approach Towards Understanding the Locations of Human Settlement." (With W. Longacre, F. Plog, J. Hill and D. Green.) World Archaeology,
Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 107-116.
Alternative Cultural Models for Demographic Change: Southwestern Examples. "Population Studies in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology: A Symposium." American Antiquity,
Memoir of the Society for American Archaeology, No. 30, edited by A. Swedlund,
pp. 104-115.
1978 Archaeology Beyond Anthropology. (With D. A. Phillips.) American Antiquity,
Vol. 42, No. 2.
1979 "Cultural Dynamics and Paleoenvironment in the Northern Southwest." (With R. C. Euler, T. N. Karlstrom, J. Dean, R. Hevly.) Science,
September 14, Vol. 205, pp. 1089-1101. (American Association for the Advancement
of Science.)
1984 "Prehistoric and Historic Settlement in the Palau Islands, Micronesia." (with W. B. Masse and D. Snyder) New Zealand Journal of Archaeology,
Vol. 6, pp. 107-127.
1985 "Human Behavior, Demography, and Paleoenvironment on the Colorado Plateaus." (with J. Dean, R. Euler, F. Plog, R. Hevly, and T. Karlstrom). American Antiquity,
Vol. 50, No. 3.
1991 "Trends in Western Anasazi Archaeology: From Fewkes to the Future," The
Kiva,
Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 99-122.
CHAPTERS IN PROFESSIONAL BOOKS:
(SELECTED EXAMPLES)
1970 – 1973 "Prehistoric Human Population in a Biological Transition Zone (with R. Roy Johnston) in The Distribution of Prehistoric Population Aggregates.
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological
Research Group. Prescott College Anthropological Reports,
No. 1 (edited by G. Gumerman). Pp. 83-102.
1973 "The Origin of Regional Cultural Variations: An Example from the Anasazi Southwest." Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth International Congress of Americanists,
Lima, Peru. A Rural-Urban Continuum for the Prehistoric Pueblo Southwest. Proceedings of the Fortieth International Congress of Americanists,
Rome, Italy. Pp. 83-88.
"The Reconciliation of Method and Theory in Archaeology" in Research and Theory in Current Archaeology,
edited by Charles Redman. John Wiley and Sons. Pp. 287-299.
1974 Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Change in the Black Mesa Region, Northeastern Arizona.
(With T. N. V. Karlstrom and R. C. Euler) in "The Geology of Northern Arizona with Notes on Archaeology and Biology." Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, pp. 768-792.
1977 "The Unrealized Potential of Remote Sensing in Archaeology" (with Laurence Kruckman) in Aerial Remote Sensing in Archaeology.
Edited by Thomas Lyons and Robert Hitchcock. National Park Service and
the University of New Mexico.
1979 "The Hohokam" (with Emil W. Haury) in Handbook of
North American Indians: The Southwest,
Vol. 9. William Sturtevant, General Editor, Alfonso Ortiz, Volume Editor.
Smithsonian Institution.
1980 "The Hohokam and the Northern Periphery
of North Central Arizona" (with
P. M. Spoerl) in Current Issues in Hohokam Prehistory,
edited by D. Doyel and F. Plog. Arizona State University Anthropological
Research Paper 23.
1986 "The Role of Competition and Cooperation in the Evolution of Island Societies" in Island Societies: Archaeological Approaches to Evolution and Transformation,
edited by P. V. Kirch. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
1989 "Prehistoric Cooperation and Competition in the Western Anasazi
Area" (with J. S. Dean) in Dynamics of Southwestern Prehistory (L. Cordell and G. Gumerman, editors). Smithsonian Institution Press,
Inquiries in Archaeology.
1989 "Cultural Interaction in the Prehistoric Southwest," with L. Cordell, in Dynamics of Southwestern Prehistory (L.
Cordell and G. Gumerman, editors). Smithsonian Institution Press, Inquiries
in Archaeology.
1993 “On the Acquisition of Archaeological Knowledge: The American
Southwest and Northwestern Mexico” in Culture and Contact:
Charles C. Di Peso’s Gran Chichimeca,
A. Woosley and J. Ravesloot, editors. Amerind Foundation and University
of New Mexico Press
1994 "Toward an Understanding of Southwestern Abandonment"
(with P. Fish, S. Fish, and J. Reid) in Themes in Southwest Prehistory,
G. Gumerman, editor. School of American Research Press.
1994 "Cultural
Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest" (with
M. Gell-Mann) in Themes in Southwest Prehistory,
G. Gumerman, editor. School of American Research Press.
1994 “Approaches to Understanding Southwestern Prehistory” (with S. Lekson and L. Cordell) in Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest,
G. Gumerman and M. Gell-Mann, editors. Addison/Wesley Press.
2000 “Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling” (with J. Dean, J. Epstein, R. Axtell, A. Swedlund, M. Parker, and S. McCarroll) in Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies,
G. Gumerman and T. Kohler, editors. Oxford University Press.
2001 “Archaeological Practice and Theory: Toward a Better Understanding
of the Past and Its Application to the Future” (with G. Gumerman
IV) in Examining the Course of Southwest Archaeology: The Durango
Conference, September 1995,
D. A. Phillips and L. Sebastian, editors. New Mexico Archaeological
Council.
2002 “A History and Retrospective of the Black Mesa Archaeological Project” (with S. Powell and F. Smiley) in Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau,
S. Powell and F. Smiley, editors. The University of Arizona Press.
2002 “Population Growth and Collapse in a Multi-Agent
Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley” (with R. Axtell,
J. Dean, J. Epstein, A. Swedlund, S. Chakravarty, J. Harburger, R. Hammong,
B. Maritz, J. Parket, and M. Parker) in Agent-Based Modeling in the Social
Sciences, P. Baily (editor). Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
2004 Gumerman, G. J. and M. Warburton 1997 “The Universe in a Cultural Context: An Essay” in Archaeoastronomy, An Intersection of Disciplines,” R. Sinclair (editor). Carolina Academic Press.
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