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Summer Scholars - 2001 

Lane Beck
Arroyo Hondo Summer Scholar 
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Curator, Arizona State Museum, and Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Project: "Arroyo Hondo Site and Pecos Pueblo"
Excavation records from Pecos Pueblo are analyzed; a mortuary analysis of Arroyo Hondo materials is performed; and a conference on "Bioarchaeology: The People of Arroyo Hondo," co-chaired by Lane Beck and Ann Palkovich, is conducted. 

James Brooks
SAR Summer Scholar 
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Project: "Nations, Tribes, and Colours: Borderland Peoples and a History for the Twenty-First Century"
The experiences of mixed-descent peoples living in the borderlands of the Canadian West, the American Southwest, the Argentine pampas, the Russian Caucasus, and southern Africa are examined in this cross-cultural analysis that spans several centuries.

Marilyn Norcini
William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Summer Scholar 
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Director for Collections, University of Pennsylvania Museum
Project: "Edward P. Dozier: A History of Native American Discourse in Anthropology"
This book-length manuscript focuses on the important contributions made to anthropology and Native American studies by Edward Dozier, a Native American anthropologist from Santa Clara Pueblo.

Ann Palkovich
Arroyo Hondo Summer Scholar 
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Mason University
Project: "Arroyo Hondo Bioarchaeological Analysis"
Collections from the Arroyo Hondo site are analyzed and a conference on "Bioarchaeology: The People of Arroyo Hondo," co-chaired by Ann Palkovich and Lane Beck, is conducted. 

Martha A. Sandweiss
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Professor, Department of American Studies and History, Amherst College
Project: "Picture Stories: Photography, Popular Culture and the Nineteenth-Century West"
An epilogue on "Why Good Pictures Make Bad History" is produced and the final draft completed on this book-length manuscript about nineteenth century photography and how it first gained credibility through its depiction of the lands and peoples of the American West.

James Snead
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar
Affiliation at time of fellowship: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Mason University
Project: "Land and Community: An Archaeology of the Ancestral Pueblo World"
Data on ancestral Pueblo communities in northern New Mexico are integrated with material collected from previous research in the Caja del Rio, Cundiyo, and Galisteo regions for a book-length manuscript on the changing social and political organization of the ancestral Pueblos, AD 1250-1500.