Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Wesley Bernardini is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Redlands in California. His collaborative research with the Hopi Tribe attempts to trace the movement and development of social groups through time and space. His recent fieldwork has concentrated on documenting large fourteenth- and fifteenth-century villages on the Hopi mesas. His current work focuses on building virtual threedimensional tools to explore ancient social landscapes, both for academic and educational uses, supported by funding from the W. M. Keck Foundation. Matthew A. Chamberlin received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2008 and is Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies department at James Madison University, Virginia. His current research explores population aggregation, conflict, and identity in the Salinas area of New Mexico. He has codirected an archaeological field school in the Salinas area from 2006 to 2010, a project centering on the excavation of three early plaza pueblos on the Chupadera Mesa. Donna M. Glowacki is the John Cardinal O’Hara CSC Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, a senior researcher on the Village Ecodynamics Project, and a long-time research associate with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Her current research focuses on village formation and on issues of religious change and the social processes involved in the regional depopulation of the northern San Juan region at the end of the 1200s. She has conducted fieldwork at sixty-three of the largest sites in the central Mesa Verde region. She is currently engaged in fieldwork at Mesa Verde National 300 About the Contributors Park that focuses on village formation and aggregation at Spruce Tree House cliff dwelling and other large sites throughout the park. Kelley Hays-Gilpin is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University and Curator of Anthropology at the Museum of Northern Arizona. Recent publications include Ambiguous Images: Gender and Rock Art (AltaMira), which won the 2005 Society for American Archaeology book award, and Painting the Cosmos: Metaphor and Worldview in Images from the Southwest and Pueblos and Mexico (Museum of Northern Arizona), with Polly Schaafsma. Her current research focuses on the long-term history of the Hopi region and on how archaeologists and Hopi communities can work together to facilitate culturally appropriate use of museum collections. Randall H. McGuire is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He has taught at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the Esquela Nacional de Antropología y Historia in México City. He has published extensively on Marxist theory and indigenous archaeology. From 1996 to 2007, he and Dean Saitta of the University of Denver directed the Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913–1914 project near Trinidad, Colorado. He has worked with Elisa Villalpando of the Centro INAH, Sonora, for 28 years investigating the Trincheras Tradition of northern Sonora, México. The Spanish summary of their excavations at Cerro de Trincheras, Entre Muros de Piedra, was published in Hermosillo, Sonora, in 2010. The full site report on the excavations is currently in press at the Arizona State Museum. His latest books include Archaeology as Political Action, The Archaeology of Class War with Karin Larkin, and Ideologies in Archaeology with Reinhard Bernbeck. He has been thinking and writing about the Mesoamerican connection in the Southwest/Northwest since he took a seminar on southwestern archaeology with Emil Haury in 1978. Marit K. Munson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Trent University (Ontario, Canada) and director of TUARC, the Trent Univer- About the Contributors 301 sity Archaeological Research Centre. Her research explores issues of identity, gender, and ritual practice in Ancestral Pueblo rock art of the northern Rio Grande Valley and Mimbres iconography from southern New Mexico. These interests were formed during her time as a graduate student at the University of New Mexico and were shaped by a short stint at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and by her experience teaching courses on the anthropology of art and native art of North America. She recently completed The Archaeology of Art in the American Southwest (AltaMira), a book that attempts to bridge the gap between archaeological, art historical, and anthropological perspectives on ancient art. Elizabeth A. Newsome is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of...