Interests and Specializations:

Sociocultural Anthropology: Methods, Theory, History; Anthropology of Art; Hopi Potters and Pottery; Museum Studies.

Education:

PhD in Anthropology, New York University, 2003
MA in Anthropology, Wesleyen University, 1978
BA in Anthropology, Bard College, 1976

Selected Publications:

Books and Theses:

2003 The American Indian Art World and the (Re-) Production of the Primitive: Hopi Pottery and Potters, Doctoral Thesis, New York University (Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms)

1982 A Reference Manual for Historic Hopi Ceramics, Cambridge, MA: published through the Peabody Museum.

1981 Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press. (with Edwin L. Wade; reprinted 1984)

Articles and Chapters:

2005 "Art-Native North America." In William H. McNeill, et. al., eds., Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History Vol. I pp. 145-150. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group

1994 "Producing 'Generations in Clay': Kinship, Markets, and Hopi Pottery." Expedition 36(1):3-13

1992 "'My potteries can be used in the microwave': Indigenous Constructions of an American Indian Art." Museum Anthropology 16(3):25-33.

1983 "On the Road with the Melvilles." In Hopis, Tewas, and the American Road: The Melville Collection of Wesleyan Unversity, pp.15-27. W. Walker and L. Wyckoff, eds. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. (reprinted 1986 by University of New Mexico Press)

Exhibit Catalogues:

1980 America's Great Lost Expedition: The Thomas Keam Collection of Hopi Pottery from the Second Hemingway Expedition, 1890-1894. Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum. (with Edwin L. Wade)