DEAN J. SAITTA

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1987.

M.A. Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, 1980.

B.A. Anthropology, Wake Forest University, 1977.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2009-present Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver.

2008-present Co-President, Colorado Conference American Association of University

Professors.

2007-present President, DU Chapter American Association of University Professors.

2006-2009 Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver.

2006-2008 President, Faculty Senate, University of Denver.

1994-2006 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver.

1996-2003 Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of

Denver.

1997-2000 Director, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology.

1988-1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver.

1988 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University.

1979-1987 Teaching Assistant, Teaching Associate, and Instructor in the Department of

Anthropology and Division of Continuing Education, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2004 Election to Honorary Membership, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Denver.

2000-2003 University Professor of Social Science, University of Denver.

1998 University Scholar-Teacher of the Year, University of Denver.

1995 Mortar Board "Top Prof", University of Denver.

1994 Outstanding Support to the Office of Admissions Award, University of Denver.

1993 Mortar Board "Top Prof", University of Denver.

1993 Lambda Chi Alpha "Certificate of Recognition" for contribution to academics,

University of Denver.

1984-1985 University Fellowship, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

2008 Denver: An Archaeological History. With S. Nelson, K.L. Berry, R. Carrillo, B. Clark,

and L. Rhodes. Re-release by University Press of Colorado.

2007 The Archaeology of Collective Action. University Press of Florida.

2001 Denver: An Archaeological History. University of Pennsylvania Press. With S. Nelson,

K.L. Berry, R. Carrillo, B. Clark, and L. Rhodes.

Edited Journal Collections

2005 Symposium on Marxism and Archaeology. Rethinking Marxism 17 (3).

2003 Symposium on Stephen Jay Gould. Rethinking Marxism 15 (4).

Refereed Journal Articles:

2008 Comment on A. Bernard Knapp and Peter van Dommelen, Past Practices: Rethinking

Individuals and Agents in Archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18:25-26.

2006 Higher Education and the Dangerous Professor: Challenges for Anthropology.

Anthropology Today 22(4):1-3.

2006 Battlefields of Class Conflict: Ludlow Then and Now. Journal of Conflict Archaeology

1:197-213. (with M. Walker and P. Reckner).

2005 Marxism, Tribal Society, and the Dual Nature of Archaeology. Rethinking Marxism

17:385-397.

2005 Dialoguing with the Ghost of Marx: Mode of Production in Archaeological Theory.

Critique of Anthropology 25:27-35.

2003 Stephen Jay Gould: In Memoriam. Rethinking Marxism 15:445-449.

2002 Teaching the Craft of Archaeology: Theory, Practice, and the Field School. International

Journal of Historical Archaeology 6:199-207. (with Mark Walker).

1998 Dialectics, Heterarchy, and Western Pueblo Social Organization. (with R. McGuire).

American Antiquity 63:334-336.

1998 An Emancipatory Archaeology for the Working Class. (with Philip Duke). Assemblage

#4. On-line journal located at http://www.shef.ac.uk/~assem.

1997 Power, Labor, and the Dynamics of Change in Chacoan Political Economy.

American Antiquity 62:7-26.

1996 Although They Have Petty Captains, They Obey Them Badly: The Dialectics of

Prehispanic Western Pueblo Social Organization. (with R. McGuire) American Antiquity

61:197-216.

1994 Agency, Class, and Archaeological Interpretation. Journal of Anthropological

Archaeology 13:201-227.

1992 Radical Archaeology and Middle-Range Methodology. Antiquity 66:886-897.

1991 Room Use and Community Organization at the Pettit Site, West-Central New Mexico.

The Kiva 56:385-409.

1988 Marxism, Prehistory, and Primitive Communism. Rethinking Marxism 1:145-168.

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1984 The Archaeology of Households: Alternative Approaches. Man In The Northeast 28:1-8.

1983 On The Evolution of "Tribal" Social Networks. American Antiquity 48:820-824.

Other Journal Articles:

2004 Desecration at Ludlow. New Labor Forum 13:84-87.

2002 The Colorado Coal Field War Archaeology Project. The SAA Archaeological Record

2(2):21-23. (with the Ludlow Collective)

2000 Colorado Coal Field War Project. Annual Editions: Archaeology 01/02, Dushkin,

McGraw-Hill, Sluice Dock. (with R. McGuire and P. Duke).

1998 Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-1914. Radical History Review

72:79-80. (with R. McGuire and P. Duke).

1998 Colorado Coal Field War Project. Anthropology Newsletter December, American

Anthropological Association, Washington D.C. (with R. McGuire and P. Duke).

1982 The archaeology of households: alternative approaches. Conference on New England

Archaeology Newsletter 2:1-12.

Book Chapters:

2009 Why we dig: Archaeology, Ludlow, and the Public. In The Archaeology of Class War,

edited by K. Larkin and R. McGuire, pp. 351-362. University Press of Colorado.

2008 Ethics, objectivity, and emancipatory archaeology. In Archaeology and Capitalism:

From Ethics to Politics, edited by P. Duke and Y. Hamilakis, pp. 267-280. Left Coast

Press.

2005 The Colorado Coalfield War Archaeological Project: Archaeology serving labor. In

Preserving Western History, edited by A. Gulliford, pp. 32-43. University of New

Mexico Press. (with P. Duke, R. McGuire, P. Reckner, and M. Walker).

2005 Labor and class in the American West. In North American Archaeology, edited by S.

Loren and T. Pauketat, pp. 359-385. London, Blackwell.

2003 Archaeology and the problems of men. In Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method

and Theory, edited by T. Van Pool and C. Van Pool, pp. 11-15. University of Utah Press.

2003 Getting things right, making things new: Causes for optimism in reconciling Western and

Native American knowledges. In Indigenous People and Archaeology, edited by T.

Peck, E. Siegfried, and G. Oetelaar, pp. 102-107. The Archaeological Association of the

University of Calgary. (with P. Duke and C. Gachupin).

2001 Communal class processes and Pre-Columbian social dynamics. In Re/Presenting

Class: Essays In Postmodern Political Economy, edited by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen

Resnick, and Richard Wolff, pp 247-263. Duke University Press.

2001 Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-1914. In Archaeologies of the

Contemporary Past, edited by V. Buchli and G. Lucas, pp. 94-107. Routledge Press,

London. (with The Ludlow Collective)

2001 History and political economy in archaeological interpretation: report of a workshop. In

Examining the Course of Southwest Archaeology: The 1995 Durango Conference, edited

by L. Sebastian and D. Phillips. New Mexico Archaeological Council Special

Publication No. 3.

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2000 Theorizing the political economy of Southwestern exchange. In The Archaeology of

Regional Interaction, edited by M. Hegmon, pp. 151-166. University Press of

Colorado.

1999 Prestige, agency, and change in middle-range societies. In Material Symbols:

Culture and Economy in Prehistory, edited by J. Robb, pp. 135-149. Southern Illinois

University Press, Carbondale.

1999 Contradictory knowledges and cultural affiliation. In Affiliation Conference on Ancestral

Peoples of the Four Corners Region, Volume 1, edited by P. Duke, pp. 100-106. Fort

Lewis College and National Park Service.

1998 Linking political economy and human biology: Lessons from North American

archaeology. In Building a New Biocultural Synthesis: Political-Economic and

Critical Perspectives on Human Biology, edited by A. Goodman and T. Leatherman, pp.

127-146. University of Michigan Press.

1998 Although they have petty captains, they obey them badly: The dialectics of prehispanic

Western Pueblo social organization. (with R. McGuire). In Reader in Archaeological

Theory, edited by D. Whitley, pp. 275-298. Routledge, New York.

1995 Marxism and archaeology. In Marxism in the Postmodern Age, edited by A. Callari, S.

Cullenberg, and C. Biewener, pp. 385-393. Guilford Publications, New York.

1994 The political economy and ideology of early population aggregation in Togeye Canyon,

AD 1150-1250. In Exploring Social, Political, and Economic Organization in the Zuni

Region, edited by T. Howell and T. Stone, pp. 47-60. Arizona State University

Anthropological Research Papers No. 46.

1994 Class and community in the prehistoric Southwest. In The Ancient Southwestern

Community: Models and Methods for the Study of Prehistoric Social Organization,

edited by W. Wills and R. Leonard, pp. 25-43. University of New Mexico Press.

1992 Theory in Colorado archaeology. In The State of Colorado Archaeology, edited by P.

Duke and G. Matlock, pp. 61-94. Colorado Archaeological Society.

1991 Radical theory and the processual critique. In Processual and Postprocessual

Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past, edited by R. Preucel, pp. 54-59.

Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.

1990 Politics and surplus flow in communal societies. In The Evolution of Political Systems:

Socio-politics in Small-scale Sedentary Societies, edited by S. Upham, pp. 203-224.

Cambridge University Press. (with A.S. Keene).

1989 Dialectics, critical inquiry and archaeology. In Critical Traditions in Contemporary

Archaeology, edited by V. Pinsky and A. Wylie, pp. 38-43. Cambridge University Press.

1983 The poverty of philosophy in archaeology. In Archaeological Hammers and Theories,

edited by J. Moore and A. Keene, pp. 299-304. Academic Press.

1981 Cortical involution of rib in two prehistoric Amerindian populations. In Biocultural

Adaptations: Comprehensive Approaches to Skeletal Analysis, edited by D. Martin

and P. Bumsted, pp. 47-63. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of

Anthropology Research Reports 20.

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Book Reviews:

2010 Saving Academic Freedom, by Cary Nelson. AAUP Alert: Newsletter of the Colorado

Conference AAUP, Summer. Also posted at http://www.cary-nelson.org/nelson/No-

University-Is-An-Island/no-island-reviews.html

2008 Archaeology: The Conceptual Challenge, by Timothy Insoll. Journal of the Royal

Anthropological Institute 14:673-74.

2005 The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities, by Adam

T. Smith. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 15:269-270.

2005 Marx s Ghost: Conversations With Archaeologists, by Thomas C. Patterson. Journal of

the Royal Anthropological Institute 11:147-148.

2003 Western Pueblo Identities, by Andrew Duff. Journal of Anthropological Research 9:108-

110.

2002 Archaeological Theory Today, edited by Ian Hodder. Journal of Anthropological

Research 58:419-420.

2000 Archaeologies of Capitalism, edited by Mark Leone. American Antiquity 65(4):775-776.

1999 Bioarchaeology of Native American Adaptation in the Spanish Borderlands, edited by B.

Baker and L. Kealhofer. University Press of Florida. Florida Historical Quarterly.

1998 Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T. Pauketat and

T. Emerson. University of Nebraska Press. American Anthropologist 100:224-225.

1997 The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150-1350, edited by M. Adler. New Mexico

Historical Review 72:279-280.

1996 The Foundations of Social Inequality, edited by T. Price and G. Feinman. Plains

Anthropologist 42:263-265.

1995 The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe, edited by D. Harris. American Antiquity 60:556-

557.

1990 Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest, edited by A.

Hedlund. Arizona State University Anthropological Research Paper No. 40. American

Antiquity 55:873.

Research/Technical Report:

1988 An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Northern Wake Expressway, Wake County,

North Carolina. Submitted to the North Carolina Department of Transportation by

Wilbur Smith and Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Monograph

1987 Economic Integration and Social Development in Zuni Prehistory. Doctoral dissertation,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Essays

2010 Taking the Pulse of Shared Governance at DU: An Unvarnished Personal Account.

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University of Denver Faculty Forum 24 (2-3), May.

2010 Shared Governance: An AAUP Perspective. University of Denver Faculty Forum 24 (2-

3), May.

2008 Introduction to the Special Issue on Inclusive Excellence. University of Denver Faculty

Forum Occasional Paper #1.

2006 Incoming Senate President s Remarks. University of Denver Faculty Forum 20 (3). May.

2006 Thoughts on Academic Quality. University of Denver Faculty Forum 20 (1-2). January.

2005 Speaking Out on Academic Freedom. University of Denver Faculty Forum 19 (2),

March.

2004 Integrating Academic and Corporate Values: Challenges for University Governance.

University of Denver Faculty Forum 18 (3), April.

2003 University Governance: Reflections of a G-6 Insider and a Modest Proposal for Change.

University of Denver Faculty Forum 18 (1), October.

2002 Bridges to the Future, the Public Good, and Institutional Identity. University of Denver

Faculty Forum 17 (1), November.

Published Letters, Columns, Op-Eds, Interviews

2011 Making Housing Affordable. Guest Commentary for the Denver Post, June 29 (with Kyle

Cascioli).

2011 Law Does Little to Prevent Farmland Raids. Guest Column for The Pueblo Chieftain,

June 19 (with Kyle Cascioli).

2011 Agricultural Zoning and Urban Sustainability. Guest column for the Fort Collins

Coloradoan, April 9 (with Kyle Cascioli and Ron Throupe).

2011 Housing Colorado s Homeless. Guest column for the Boulder Daily Camera, February

27 (with Kyle Cascioli).

2011 A Mix of Old and New. Denver Post, February 15 (with Kyle Cascioli).

2011 Culturing Community in Urban Design. Guest Commentary for the Denver Post,

February 7 (with Kyle Cascioli).

2010 Theories of Anasazi Disappearance, KSFR (Santa Fe, NM) Interview, May 17.

2008 Colorado Places: Ludlow. KUNC (Greeley, CO) Interview, April 21.

2006 Cultural Differences and Measuring Achievement. Denver Post, August 7.

2006 Ludlow Massacre: Site Revisited. Pueblo Chieftain, June 25.

2006 Horowitz s Advice Should Be Reconsidered. Daily Princetonian, May 4.

2006 Beware of Dangerous Professors. Rocky Mountain Collegian, April 26.

2006 Dangerous Professors? Denver Post, March 12.

2006 Resist Hyped Claims of Faculty Bias. Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13.

2005 Evolution: Teaching Debate Won t Shed Light. Boulder Daily Camera, November 22.

2005 In Controversy Over Evolution, Steves Rule. Rocky Mountain News, October 6.

2005 Intelligent Design and Evolutionary Thought. Los Angeles Times, October 1.

2005 Intelligent Design and Evolution. Denver Post, August 21.

2005 Ludlow Memorial. Denver Post, June 9.

2005 Rock Detectives Help Mend 1918 Memorial to Ludlow Victims. Denver Post, June 5.

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2005 Academic freedom at DU. Rocky Mountain News, May 11.

2005 Flaws Found in Right Winger Article. UMass Daily Collegian, May 5.

2004 Horowitz's Claims Just a Bit Disingenuous. Rocky Mountain News, January 30.

2003 Close to McCarthyism. Denver Post, December 28.

2003 Remembering Ludlow. Heartland Labor Forum, Kansas City. September 18.

2003 Ludlow Massacre. Blue Sky Quarterly, Spring 2003.

2003 Respecting Process. Denver Post, May 8.

2003 Maligning Faculty. Denver Post, January 28.

2002 Lessons of History. Denver Post, September 8.

2002 Ludlow Massacre Archaeology, Colorado Public Radio Colorado Matters, KCFR

(Denver), September 10.

1998 Artifacts of Violence: Archaeologists dig into 1914 Ludlow Massacre. Denver Post,

August 30.

1990 Static Prognostications. Anthropology Newsletter 31(2). February (with Arthur Keene).

PAPERS, LECTURES, AND POSTERS PRESENTED TO PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

2011 Surplus, Class and Causality. Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Sacramento.

April 2.

2010 Teaching the Controversy: Lessons from a Student Debate About the Referendum to

Rescind the AAA El Dorado Task Force Report. Contribution to an Invited Roundtable

entitled History and Education in the Circulation of Ethnographic Knowledge in the

Amazon: The Yanomami Controversy a Decade Later. American Anthropological

Association, New Orleans, November 20.

2010 Shadowed Ground Archaeology. Public Anthropology Conference, American

University, Washington DC. October 17. (with Bonnie Clark).

2010 Emancipatory Archaeology Ten Years Later. Keynote Address for the 7th Annual Public

Anthropology Conference, American University, Washington DC. October 16.

2010 The New Pragmatism and North American Archaeological Theory. Theoretical

Archaeology Group Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI. April 30-May 2.

2010 The Ludlow Massacre: Archaeology, Activism, Preservation. Society for American

Archaeology Meeting, St. Louis. April 14-18.

2009 Archaeologies of Shadowed Ground. Colorado Preservation Incorporated Conference,

Denver, February 6. (with Bonnie Clark).

2008 Excavating Hidden History: Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-1914.

Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. April 17.

2007 Undergraduate Studies and General Education Reform. San Francisco State University,

December 13.

2007 Critical Scholarship, Normative Rationality, and Academic Freedom. National Forum to

Defend Dissent and Critical Thinking. Boulder, Colorado, April 28.

2006 Mining, Health, and the Colorado Coalfield Strike. Lecture to the Respiratory Disease

Unit, National Jewish Hospital, Denver, November 30.

2006 Dangerous Professors in America. Panel discussion sponsored by the Progressive

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Student Organization, University of Texas at San Antonio, September 20.

2004 Battlefields of Class Conflict: Ludlow 1914. Theoretical Archaeology Group, Glasgow,

Scotland. December 18.

2004 Hidden History: The Archaeology of Class Conflict on America s Western Frontier.

Interdisciplinary Seminar, City University. London. December 2.

2004 Class Conflict in the American West: Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre, 1914.

Contemporary Historical Archaeology Theory Conference, Leicester, England.

November 19.

2004 Hidden History: The Archaeology of Class Conflict on America s Western Frontier.

University of Southampton, Southampton, England. November 18.

2004 Agency and Warfare: Insights from the 20th Century American Southwest. Society for

American Archaeology, Montreal. April 3.

2003 Memory, Monumentality, and Vandalism at Ludlow, Colorado. Front Range Symposium

on Art History, Boulder, Colorado. September 27.

2003 Industrial Archaeology, Public Memory, and Preservation: Contributions from the

Colorado Coal Fields. Colorado Preservation, Inc. Saving Places Conference, Denver,

February 7.

2002 Dialoguing with the Ghost of Marx: Mode of Production in Archaeological Theory.

American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20.

2002 Science and Religion in Dialogue: The Case of Darwin. Poster presentation of course

syllabus presented to the Center for Theology and Science Advanced Workshop, St.

Anne s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, July 10-14.

2002 Science, History, and Solidarity. Society for American Archaeology, Denver, April 20.

2002 Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre. University of Colorado-Denver History

Department, March 7.

2001 Power of Place: The Ludlow Tent Colony Then and Now. American Anthropological

Association, Washington DC, December 1.

2001 Marxist Theory and Tribal Political Economy. American Anthropological Association,

Washington DC, November 29.

2001 Toward an Emancipatory Archaeology: Contributions From the Colorado Coal Field War

Project. Fort Lewis College Center of Southwest Studies Research Program Not Just

One Story: Collaborations in Cultural Research and Interpretation on Public Lands .

Durango, October 19.

2001 Historical Archaeology at the Ludlow Massacre Memorial. Fort Lewis College Center of

Southwest Studies Research Program Archaeology that Matters: Collaborations,

Applications, and Ethics in the Americas . Durango, October 18.

2001 Materiality and Complexity in Archaeological Theory. Society for American

Archaeology, New Orleans, April 20.

2001 Agency and the Praxis of Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology, New

Orleans, April 21. (with R. McGuire and P. Duke).

2001 Teaching the Craft of Archaeology: Theory, Practice, and the Field School. Society for

Historical Archaeology, Long Beach, California. (with Mark Walker).

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2000 Affiliation Conference On Ancestral Peoples Of The Four Corners Region: A

Retrospective View. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver. (with P.

Duke).

1999 Getting Things Right, Making Things New: Causes For Optimism In Reconciling

Western And Native American Knowledges. Chacmool Conference Indigenous Peoples

and Archaeology, University of Calgary.

1999 Archaeology and the Problems of Men. Society for American Archaeology, Chicago.

1999 The Dialectics of Complexity. Presented at the Society for American Archaeology,

Chicago. (with R. McGuire).

1999 Working and Striking in Southern Colorado, 1913-1914. Society for Historical

Archaeology, Salt Lake City.

1998 Critiquing the Radical Critique. Society for American Archaeology, Seattle (with P.

Duke).

1998 Archaeology at the Ludlow Tent Colony. Colorado Council of Professional

Archaeologists, Pueblo, Colorado, March 13-14.

1998 Contradictory Knowledges and Cultural Affiliation. Affiliation Conference on Ancestral

Peoples of the Four Corners Region, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, February 20-21.

1998 Can Contradictory Knowledges Be Reconciled? Affiliation Conference on Ancestral

Peoples of the Four Corners Region, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, January 23-24.

1997 Marxist Models of Chacoan Prehistory. Contributed to Evaluating Models of Chaco: A

Virtual Conference . Found at: http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/chaco/open.htm

1997 Community Dynamics at Some Southwestern Pueblos in Transition. Society For

American Archaeology, Nashville, Tennessee (with A. Sawyer).

1996 An Emancipatory Archaeology for the Working Class. Theoretical Archaeology Group,

Liverpool, England. (with Philip Duke).

1996 Prestige, Labor, and Long-Term Change in Middle-Range Societies. Visiting Scholar's

Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

1996 Theorizing Exchange and Power in Precontact Societies of the American Southwest.

Southwest Symposium, Arizona State University, Tempe.

1993 Power and Labor in Chacoan Political Economy. New Mexico Archaeological Council,

Albuquerque, NM, December 3.

1993 A Radical Reinterpretation of Chaco Canyon Prehistory. Anthropology Department, Fort

Lewis College, Durango, CO, December 1.

1993 Anasazi Architecture and Symbolic Landscapes. School of Architecture and

Planning, University of Colorado, Denver, November 18.

1993 Prehistory, Postmodernism, and the New World Order. University of Denver

Humanities Institute, November 11.

1993 Class, Consciousness, and Social Change in Precolumbian North America.

Anthropology Department, University of Colorado-Boulder, March 12.

1992 Archaeology and the New World Order. International Conference Marxism in the New

World Order: Crises and Possibilities". Amherst, MA November 12-14.

1992 Class and Biology in Prehistoric North America. Wenner-Gren Symposium "Political-

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Economic Perspectives in Biocultural Anthropology", Cabo San Lucas, Mexico October

30-November 7.

1991 Class, Society, and Historical Transition in the Prehistoric American Southwest.

Theoretical Archaeology Group, Leicester, England, December 16-19.

1991 Radical Archaeology and Middle-Range Theory. Society for American Archaeology,

New Orleans.

1990 Class and Community in the Prehistoric Southwest. Southwest Symposium,

Albuquerque, NM.

1989 Radical Theory and the Processual Critique. Visiting Scholars Conference, Southern

Illinois University, Carbondale.

1988 Archaeology of the Pettit Site: Social Integration in Prehistoric West-Central New

Mexico. Museum of Man, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, December 14.

1988 Tribal Political Economy and Ancient Southwestern Social Life. Society for American

Archaeology, Phoenix.

1988 Factionalism and Tribal Social Change: Concepts and Models for Eastern Archaeology.

Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, March 3.

1987 Class, Politics, and Social Development in Prehistoric Sedentary Societies. School of

American Research Advanced Seminar, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (with A.S. Keene).

1985 Concepts of Surplus and the Primitive Economy: a critique and reformulation. Society

for American Archaeology, Denver. (with A.S. Keene).

1983 Theories of "Tribal" Social Process: Contradictions and Consequences. Society for

American Archaeology, Pittsburgh.

1983 Rural Economy and the Transition to Capitalism in New England. Northeastern

Anthropological Association, Syracuse, NY.

1982 Social Process in Complex Society: A Class-Theoretic Approach. American

Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C.

1982 The Explanation of Change in Egalitarian Society: A Critique. Society for American

Archaeology, Minneapolis.

1982 The Archaeology of Households: Alternative Approaches. Keynote paper for the

Conference on New England Archaeology. Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA.

1980 Information Management and the Evolution of Midwestern Subsistence-Settlement

Systems. Midwest Archaeological Conference, Chicago.

1980 The Evolution of Human Social Behavior. Northeastern Anthropological Association,

Amherst, MA.

1980 The Intensification of Production and Exchange: An Archaeological Example.

Northeastern Anthropological Association, Amherst, MA.

OTHER MAJOR PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Professional Meetings Organized

1995 Co-Organizer, The Durango Conference on Southwest Archaeology, Durango, Colorado.

September 15-16.

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Symposia Organized For Professional Meetings:

2002 Organizer and Chair, Integrating Multiple Histories of Western Pasts . Opening Session

for the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Denver, April 20-24.

1995 Co-Organizer and Co-Chair (with Philip Duke) of a workshop on political economy at

the Durango Conference on Southwest Archaeology.

1990 Co-Organizer and Co-Chair (with Arthur S. Keene), "Communal Life and Collective

Action". Symposium organized for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological

Association, New Orleans.

1985 Co-Organizer and Co-Chair (with John R. Cross), "The Organization of Production in

Non-Stratified Societies." Symposium organized for the annual meeting of the Society

for American Archaeology, Denver.

Invited Participant/Discussant:

2009 Invited discussant, symposium on Landscapes of Riches and Ruin, Society for

Historical Archaeology meetings, Toronto. January 8.

2008 Invited participant, Metro Millennium Workshop, City Institute at York University,

Toronto, Canada, May 11-12.

1998 Co-host of a Roundtable Luncheon on Working Class Archaeology, at the Society for

American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. (with P. Duke, Fort Lewis

College).

1997 Co-host of a Roundtable Luncheon on New World Hegemonies: Communal and

Political, at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Nashville,

Tennessee. (with T. Pauketat, SUNY-Buffalo).

1995 Invited discussant for a workshop on Chaco archaeology at the Durango Conference on

Southwest Archaeology.

1989 Invited discussant for an international symposium sponsored by the Wenner-Gren

Foundation for Anthropological Research entitled "Critical Approaches in Archaeology:

Material Life, Meaning, and Power." Cascais, Portugal, March 17- 25.

1984 Invited discussant for the symposium "Non-Capitalist Social Formations," at the 2nd

Annual Meeting of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis. Amherst, MA,

April 27-29.

1983 Invited discussant for the symposium "Overdetermination and Social Analysis," at the 1st

Annual Meeting of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis. Amherst, MA,

April 19-May 1.

PUBLIC OUTREACH: SALONS, SEMINARS, OTHER PRESENTATIONS

2010 Excavating Hidden History: The Archaeology of Colorado s Ludlow Massacre. DU

Alumni Symposium, October 2.

2009 God and Darwin in American Life. University of Denver Humanities Institute Salon,

April 2 and April 22 (with Greg Robbins).

2009 Book Talk and Signing, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver. For the re-release of Denver:

An Archaeological History. February 14.

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2008 Speech at Ludlow Massacre Memorial Service, Ludlow, Colorado, June 29.

2008 Democracy. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Class in the Rockies, Estes Park,

May 30-June 1 (with Arthur Gilbert and Buie Seawell).

2008 Is Religion Ever Good? Sunday Community Forum, First Universalist Church, Denver,

May 18 (with Greg Robbins).

2008 Paleoanthropology as Story-Telling: Narratives of Human Evolution. Darwin Day

guest seminar for OLLI class, Origins of Man, February 12.

2008 Religion s New Cultural Despisers : Harris, Hitchens, and Dawkins on God. Denver

Eclectics, January 25 (with Greg Robbins).

2007 Excavating Hidden History: The Archaeology of Colorado s Ludlow Massacre. DU

Alumni Symposium, October 6.

2007 Issues in Higher Education: Is Critical Thinking Dead? Evergreen Senior Resource

Center, Evergreen, Colorado. June 14.

2007 The Question of Culture. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Class in the Rockies,

Estes Park, June 1-3 (with Arthur Gilbert and Buie Seawell).

2007 God and Darwin in American Life. University of Denver Humanities Institute Salon,

April 26 and May 3 (with Greg Robbins).

2006 Human Origins and Evolution: The Clash of Biology and Culture. University College

VIVA Lecture and Seminar, August 3.

2006 Creationism and Anti-Liberalism. Denver Optimist Club, April 7.

2006 Professors Under Siege: Trends in Higher Education. Evergreen Senior Resource Center,

Evergreen, Colorado. March 16.

2005 Academic Freedom and the Tenured Professor: What s the Point? University of Denver

Humanities Institute Salon, November 2 and 9.

2005 Human Evolution Open House for the Denver community (with Jim Platt of

Biological Sciences and Greg Robbins of Religious Studies). October 6.

2005 Panelist, post-performance discussion of Inherit the Wind, Bug Theatre, Denver,

September 3.

2005 Speech at Dedication of Restored Ludlow Massacre Memorial, June 5.

2003 Speech at Ludlow Massacre Memorial Service, June 29.

2003 Lecture and Tour of Ludlow Massacre Memorial. Colorado Historical Society. May 31.

2002 Archaeology and Labor History. Colorado Federation of Labor Union Summer Program,

July 5.

2002 Denver Museum of Nature and Science Teacher s Workshop on Evolution, June 12.

2002 Science and Religion in Dialogue (with Greg Robbins), University College VIVA Salon,

June 10, 12, 14.

2002 Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre. Poster presentation at Southeast Colorado

Heritage Center, Pueblo for Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Week.

May 4-11.

1999 Tour of Colorado Coalfield War sites. Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums

Annual Meeting, Trinidad, May 16.

1995 Science, Culture and Politics in the Study of Human Evolution. DU Humanities Institute

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Salon, February 2, 9, 23.

PUBLIC LECTURES

2011 Ludlow Massacre: Archaeology, Legacy, Memory. Interdisciplinary Experimental Arts

Program, Colorado College, September 8.

2011 Excavating Hidden History: Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre. Parker Historical

Society, January 19.

2010 After Chaco: Anasazi Social and Religious Revival in Southwest Colorado and West-

Central New Mexico. Fort Morgan Museum, Fort Morgan, CO. May 11. Article

( Anasazi People did not Mysteriously Disappear ) appeared in the online edition of The

Fort Morgan Times on May 14.

2009 Darwin s Galapagos: Garden of Eden or Hell on Earth? Denver Botanic Gardens

Jurassic Gardens Program Series, September 10.

2007 The Liberal Corruption of Higher Education: Reflections of a Dangerous Professor.

Headlines in Anthropology lecture, Department of Anthropology, University of Denver.

January 23.

2006 Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre: A Comparative Perspective. Colorado

Archaeological Society, Roaring Fork chapter, Glenwood Springs. July 17.

2005 Mysteries of the Anasazi. St. Paul s Episcopal Church. November 15.

2005 The Ludlow Massacre. St. Paul s Episcopal Church, April 19.

2004 Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre. Rocky Mountain Explorers Club, Colorado

chapter. May 15.

2004 Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War. Littleton Historical Museum. May 13.

2003 Archaeology at the Ludlow Massacre Memorial. Daughters of the American Revolution,

Denver chapter. November 21.

2002 Denver: An Archaeological History. Colorado Archaeological Society, Pueblo chapter.

October 4.

2002 Historical Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre. Colorado Archaeological Society,

Denver chapter. May 15.

2002 Denver: An Archaeological History. University of Denver Museum of Anthropology

Gallery Talk for Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Week. May 9.

2000 Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War. Archaeological Institute of America,

Denver chapter. December 19.

2000 Archaeology of The Colorado Coalfield Strike, 1913-1914. Colorado Archaeological

Society, Pikes Peak (Boulder) chapter. September 14.

2000 Archaeology and Labor History. United Sheet Metal Workers Local #9, Lakewood,

Colorado.

1999 Archaeology of the Colorado Coalfield War. Colorado Archaeological Society, Fort

Collins chapter, October 20.

1999 The Role of Theory in Archaeology. Colorado Archaeological Society, Denver Chapter,

September 15.

1999 Historic Archaeology at the Ludlow Massacre Site. Colorado Archaeological Society,

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Chipeta Chapter for Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Week, Montrose,

May 13.

1999 Archaeology, Labor History, and Public Education. DU Museum of Anthropology

Gallery Talk series for Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Week, Denver,

May 12.

1999 Archaeology of the Colorado Coalfield War. Rockvale Historical Society, Rockvale,

Colorado March 3.

1999 Archaeology of the Colorado Coalfield War. Colorado Archaeological Society, Pueblo

chapter, February 4.

1998 Archaeology of the Colorado Coalfield War. Colorado Archaeological Society, Colorado

Springs chapter, July 27.

1995 Post-Chaco Social Reorganization in the American Southwest. Archaeological Institute

of America, Denver Chapter, Denver.

1994 Post-Chaco Archaeology in the Zuni Area of West-Central New Mexico. Colorado

Archaeological Society, Colorado Springs chapter, October 18.

CAMPUS TALKS

2008 Panel on Qualitative Research and Writing, University Writing Program. May 14.

2008 Coordinator, Panel on Inclusive Excellence and the Curriculum, 7th Annual Diversity

Summit, May 2.

2007 Researching People Without History: Challenges and Rewards. Keynote speech for

Graduate Research Day, University of Denver. May 18.

2005 Discoveries Program University Lecture, Discoveries That You Won t Learn About on

The Discovery Channel: Archaeology of the Ludlow Massacre . September 6.

2005 Featured speaker, Phi Beta Kappa spring induction ceremony.

2003 Integrating Academic and Corporate Values: Challenges for University Governance.

Provost s Conference on Governance and University Culture, University of Denver.

October 23.

GRANTS: EXTERNAL

2008-2012 Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and European

Commission s Directorate General for Higher Education Atlantis Program Grant, for

Global Cities/Citizenship: Transformations of Urban Areas in Europe and the USA,

$180,000.

1998-2004 Colorado Historical Society, State Historical Fund Regular Grants, $874,617 for

Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-1914 .

1997 Colorado Historical Society, State Historical Fund Mini-Grant, $4,871 for Archaeology

of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-1914 .

1995 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Grant, $2350 to support the "Durango

Conference on Southwest Archaeology".

1985 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Grant-in-Aid of Research.

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GRANTS: INTERNAL

2011 Institute for Enterprise Ethics, $10,000 for Front Range Urban Hydro-Sustainability

(with Kyle Cascioli and Ron Throupe).

2010 Center For Teaching and Learning Travel Award, $1150 for History and Education in

the Circulation of Ethnographic Knowledge in the Amazon: The Yanomami Controversy

a Decade Later. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans.

2009 Marsico Visiting Scholar Grant, $4860 for Eugenie Scott, Director of the National Center

for Science Education (with contributions from AHUM, SOCS, and NSM Visiting

Scholar committees.

2008 Core Curriculum Travel Grant, $400 for Metro Millennium Workshop, York

University, Toronto.

2007 Internationalization Small Grant, $700 for Metro Millennium Workshop, York

University, Toronto.

2005 Marsico Grant, $36,053 for Enhancing the Study of Human Evolution in the

Undergraduate Curriculum .

2004 Faculty Research Fund, $2500 for Representations of Human Evolution in British

Museums .

2000 Walter Rosenberry Fund, Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, $1000 for

Colorado Coal Field War traveling exhibit and history trunk.

1999 Walter Rosenberry Fund, Division of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, $1000 for

Ludlow Memorial Interpretive Kiosk .

1998 Humanities Institute Grant, $500 for Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War,

1913-1914 .

1996 Faculty Research Fund, $2000 for Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-

1914 .

1996 Faculty Research Fund, $200 for Pollen Analysis and Dietary Reconstruction at the

Pettit Site, West-Central New Mexico, AD 1150-1300 .

1995 Faculty Research Fund, $1850 for Construction Chronology and Subsistence Patterns at

the Pettit Site, West-Central New Mexico, AD 1150-1250 .

1995 Interdisciplinary Research Fund grant, $7000 for Interdisciplinary Research on Land

Use History and Settlement Abandonment at Togeye Canyon, New Mexico . (with R.

Sanford and M. Gonzalez).

SERVICE

Professional

2008-present Co-President, Colorado Conference American Association of University

Professors.

2000-2003 Editorial Board, Rethinking Marxism.

1997-1999 Executive Committee Member, Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists.

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University

2007-present President, DU chapter American Association of University Professors.

2007-present Faculty Committee, DU-Bologna International Center for Civic Engagement.

2006-2008 President, Faculty Senate.

2005-2006 Faculty Advisory Committee, University College BA Degree Completion

Program.

1999-2009 Executive Committee, Faculty Senate.

2008 Steering Committee, Provost s Conference on Sustainability.

2000-2007 University Planning Advisory Council.

2006-2007 Co-Chair, University Planning Advisory Council Mission and Goals Task Force.

2005-2007 University Honors Program Advisory Committee, Social Sciences representative.

2005-2007 Center for Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, Daniels College of Business.

2005-2006 Provost Search Committee.

2005-2006 Steering Committee, Women s College Curriculum Redesign.

2005-2006 President-Elect, University of Denver Faculty Senate.

1999-2005 Faculty Senate, At-Large Senator.

2005 University Teaching Task Force.

2005 Faculty Planning Group for University College Undergraduate Degree

Completion Program.

2005 Faculty Committee, Bologna Center for International Civic Engagement.

2004 G-9 Faculty-Trustees Governance Committee.

2004 Co-Chair, University Community Engagement Committee.

2003-2004 Fisher Early Learning Center Advisory Council.

2002-2004 Undergraduate Council, Faculty Senate representative.

2003 Conference Organizing Committee, Provost s Conference on Governance and

University Culture.

2003 G-6 Faculty-Trustees Governance Committee.

2003 Service Learning Faculty Committee.

2001-2003 Co-Chair, University Planning Advisory Council Public Good Task Force.

2003 Co-Chair, Conference Organizing Committee for Provost s Conference on

Serving the Public Good .

2000-2003 Board of Trustees Faculty and Educational Affairs Committee.

2001 Co-Convenor, University Planning Advisory Council Drafting Task Force.

1999-2002 Graduate Council, Faculty Senate representative.

2001-2002 Chair, Academic Planning Committee, Faculty Senate.

2000-2001 Chair, Academic Planning Committee, Faculty Senate.

1999-2000 Co-chair, Academic Planning Committee, Faculty Senate

1999-2000 Core Curriculum Construction Committee.

1999-2000 UDCC First Year Student Mentor

1999 All-campus Faculty Awards Selection Subcommittee, Faculty Senate.

1998-1999 General Education Objectives and Principles Committee.

1998 Athletics Director Search Committee, Department of Athletics, Recreation, and

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Wellness.

1998 Dean Search Committee, Division of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences.

1997-1998 Board of Trustees Committee on Athletic Affairs, Faculty representative.

1996-1998 University Faculty Athletic Committee, elected At-Large faculty representative.

1996-1997 First-year student Faculty Mentor.

1994-1998 Partners in Scholarship Working Group and Awards Selection Committee.

1994-1995 Strategic Initiatives Committee: Environment.

1994-1995 Strategic Initiatives Committee: Partners in Scholarship.

1994-1995 Strategic Initiatives Committee: Faculty Research Fund.

1994-1995 University Core Curriculum Committee, Division of Social Sciences

representative.

1994-1995 University Library Committee, Faculty Senate representative.

1994-1995 Division I Task Force, Faculty Senate representative.

1994-1995 Provost's Advisory Group, Faculty Senate representative.

1993-1995 Undergraduate Council, Division of Social Sciences representative.

1993-1995 First-year student Faculty Mentor.

1992-1995 Executive Committee, Faculty Senate

1990-1995 DU-Kent Denver School course in Biological Anthropology.

1989-1995 Faculty Senate Representative from Anthropology.

1992-1994 Student Life Council, Faculty Senate Representative.

1992-1994 Co-Chair, Student and Alumni Affairs Committee, Faculty Senate.

1990-1993 Institutional Review Board For the Protection of Human Subjects.

1993 Co-Chair, Greek Review Committee, Division of Student Life.

1993 Ad Hoc Mentoring Committee, The College.

1991-1992 Cultural Programming Board, Driscoll University Center.

1991-1992 Advisory Board, Driscoll University Center.

Division of Social Sciences

2010 AHSS Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Committee.

2009 Social Sciences Divisional Promotion and Tenure Committee.

2005 Social Sciences PROF Fund Grant Review Committee.

2003-2004 Social Sciences Divisional Promotion and Tenure Committee.

1994-2001 Social Sciences Divisional Promotion and Tenure Committee.

1991-2003 Reach Out DU Program, Divisions of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

1999 Chair, Social Sciences Divisional Promotion and Tenure Committee.

1993-1995 Elected Faculty Committee, Social Sciences divisional representative.

Department of Anthropology

2009-present Chair.

2006-2009 Library Liaison.

1996-2003 Chair.

2000-2004 Director of Undergraduate Studies.

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1990-1996 Library Liaison.

1990-1996 Faculty Advisor, Anthropology Club.

1997-2000 Director, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology.

1995-1998 Director of Undergraduate Studies.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2000-2003 Ludlow Mock Trial Planning Committee, Colorado Bar Association.

1992-1999 Board of Directors, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

1997 Co-Chair, Governor's Awards for Excellence in Education Selection Committee,

Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

1996 Chair, Governor's Awards for Excellence in Education Selection Committee,

Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

1993-1995 Selection Committee, Governor's Awards for Excellence in Education, Colorado

Endowment for the Humanities.

1994-1995 Chair, Planning Committee, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

1993-1994 Chair, Program Committee, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities.

1993-1995 Executive Committee, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities

1989-1992 Board of Directors, Friends of Anthropology. Denver Museum of Natural

History.

PROFESSIONAL FIELDWORK

1997-2004 Principal Investigator, Colorado Coal Field War Archaeological Project. With P.

Duke (Fort Lewis College) and R. McGuire (SUNY-Binghamton).

1997 Director, University of Denver Archaeological Field School. Survey and test excavation

of 13th century sites near Ramah, New Mexico.

1990-1995 Director, University of Denver Archaeological Field School. Excavation of 13th

century pueblo near Ramah, New Mexico.

1987 Field Director, Wilbur Smith Associates. Archaeological survey and excavation for the

proposed Northern Wake Expressway, Raleigh, North Carolina.

1986 Archaeologist, United States Forest Service. Green Mountain National Forest (Vermont)

Prehistoric Sites Survey.

1985 Archaeologist, United States Forest Service. Green Mountain National Forest (Vermont)

Prehistoric Sites Survey.

1980 Site Supervisor, Foundation for Illinois Archaeology, Kampsville, Illinois. Excavation of

a Middle Woodland Village in the Lower Illinois River Valley.

1979 Assistant Site Director, Dolores Archaeological Project (University of Colorado).

Excavation of an Anasazi pithouse village in the Dolores River Valley, Southwestern

Colorado.

1978 Field Assistant, Foundation for Illinois Archaeology, Kampsville, Illinois.

1977 Assistant Archaeologist, Museum of Man, Wake Forest University. Excavations at

Historic Old Salem Village, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

1976-77 Assistant Archaeologist, Department of Anthropology, Museum of Northern

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Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.

1975 Crew Chief, Museum of Man, Wake Forest University. Excavation of a historic Indian

village near Statesville, North Carolina.

COURSES: DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

Advanced Anthropology.

Ancient North America.

Anthropological Theory and Method.

Archaeological Interpretation.

Archaeology of Equality and Inequality.

Capstone Seminar

Context of Material Culture.

Culture and The City.

Ecology and Society in the Ancient Southwest.

Ethics of Professional Practice.

Fundamentals of Archaeology.

Human Nature.

Human Origins and Evolution.

Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents.

Race, Sex, and Evolution.

COURSES: CORE CURRICULUM

Science and Religion in Dialogue.

The Cultured Ape.

Science, Evolution, and Culture.

Monumental London/Historical London (Study Abroad).

This Mother Earth (The Women s College).

COURSES: FOUNDATIONS CURRICULUM

Ancient Worlds (Arts and Humanities).

Culture and Technology (Social Sciences).

Multiple Voices of America (Arts and Humanities).

The Origin and Evolution of Life (Natural Sciences).

COURSES: FIRST YEAR STUDENT MENTORING PROGRAM

Anthropology in Front Range Scientific and Popular Culture.

COURSES: STUDY ABROAD

Monumental London/Historical London (Interdisciplinary Core Curriculum course).

COURSES: FIELD AND TRAVEL

University of Denver Archaeological Field School.

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Mysteries of the Anasazi: The Chaco Canyon Experience (University College).

Journey Down the San Juan River: In Search of the Anasazi (University College)

Anasazi Land and River Seminar, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

Windows on the Anasazi World Seminar, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

COURSES: PUBLIC EDUCATION

The Cultured Ape: An Evolutionary Journey (University of Denver, University College

Enrichment Program)

A Troubled House: God and Darwin in American Life (University of Denver,

University College Enrichment Program. With Greg Robbins).

Human Origins and Evolution: The Clash of Biology and Culture (University of Denver,

University College Enrichment Program).

Work and Culture in the Southern Colorado Coalfields, 1860-1960. Colorado Endowment for

the Humanities Teacher Institute (Coordinating Scholar).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Association of University Professors

American Anthropological Association.

Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society.

Association for Economic and Social Analysis.

Colorado Citizens For Science.

Society for American Archaeology.

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