Summer Scholars
- 1999
Shanna Balazs
SAR Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Ph.D. Candidate, Department
of Anthropology, McMaster University
Project: "Contemporary Hopi Kachinas"
Research is conducted at SAR's Indian Arts Research Center and during Santa
Fe Indian Market for a dissertation on the commercial sale of Hopi kachinas.
David Edwards
SAR Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology, Williams College
Project: "The Origins of the Taliban Government in
Afgahanistan"
Drawing on 15 years of ethnographic research, this book examines the impact
of 20 years of war on the transformation of political authority in Afghanistan.
Richard Fox
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Department of Anthropology,
Washington University
Project: "Translations and Transformations"
The proceedings of a recent conference in Vienna on "Comparative Perspectives
in Anthropology" is the basis for this book-length manuscript (with Andre
Gingrich).
Roger Green
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor Emeritus
of Prehistory, Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland,
New Zealand
Project: "The Largo-Gallina Culture"
Materials on the Largo-Gallina culture of northwest New Mexico are catalogued
in preparation for a journal article on this "poorly understood 12th-13th
century agricultural settlement."
Roberta Haines
Katrin H. Lamon Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Ph.D. Candidate, Department
of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
Project: "Citizenship Bound to the Promised Land:
An Investigation of the Status of Indigenous People in the United
States"
This doctoral dissertation examines Native American citizenship in terms of
official policy and challenges current assumptions concerning the status of
Native American peoples in the United States.
Maeve Hickey
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Artist and Photographer,
Dublin, Ireland
Project: "The Tunnel Children of Nogales, Mexico"
The design and format are finalized and photographs are selected for two books—Lives
on the Line: The Tunnel Kids of the US-Mexico Border and Ambos
Nogales: An Intimate Portrait of the US/Mexico Border (in collaboration
with Lawrence Taylor).
Anne Palkovich
Arroyo Hondo Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor,
Department of Anthropology, George Mason University
Project: "Arroyo Hondo Analysis"
Data are examined as part of a re-analysis of burials from the Arroyo Hondo
site near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Martha A. Sandweiss
SAR Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of
American Studies and History, Amherst College
Project: "Southwest Encounters Course"
Research is conducted and teaching materials are selected for a course on "Southwestern
Encounters: Historical and Anthro-pological Perspectives on the American Borderlands" (with
Alan Swedlund).
Alan Swedlund
SAR Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Department
of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts
Project: "Southwest Encounters Course"
Research is conducted and teaching materials are selected for a course on "Southwestern
Encounters: Historical and Anthro-pological Perspectives on the American Borderlands" (with
Martha A. Sandweiss).
Lawrence Taylor
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of Anthropology,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Project: "The Tunnel Children of Nogales, Mexico" Manuscripts
are prepared for two books—Lives on the Line: The Tunnel Kids
of the US-Mexico Border and Ambos
Nogales: An Intimate Portrait of the US/Mexico Border—both of
which are based on an ethnographic study of tunnel children (in collaboration
with Maeve Hickey).
