Arizona: A History, Revised Edition

About the Author

index 485 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas E. Sheridan, PhD, holds a joint appointment as research anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the Southwest Center and School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork and ethnohistorical research in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico since 1971. From 1984 to 2003, he was curator of ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum, and served as director of the Office of Ethnohistorical Research from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Sheridan has written or coedited twelve books and monographs, including Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community of Tucson, 1854–1941 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986); Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988); and most recently, Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006), which won the Past Presidents’ Gold Award from the Association of Borderlands Studies in 2010. Dr. Sheridan is chairman emeritus of the Canoa Ranch Foundation, chair of the Ranch Conservation Technical Advisory Team of Pima County’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, and a member of Pima County’s Conservation Acquisition Commission. He served as president of the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association from 2003 to 2005, and is a member of the Board of Directors and Community Representative of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance, which won the Quivira Coalition ’s Clarence Burch Award in 2010. 486 index ...