SAR Researchers
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is home to several administrative faculty, research associates, and senior scholars who are actively engaged in research and writing in the social sciences, humanities, and Native arts.
 | Rebecca AllahyariResearch Associate, 2002–PresentRebecca A. Allahyari is a qualitative sociologist interested in emotions, gender, and religion in everyday practice and politics. She is finishing a manuscript on homeschooling and beginning a new ethnographic project on guardianship of the elderly. |
 | Duane AndersonResearch Associate, 1999–PresentDuane Anderson is an anthropologist specializing in the pre-contact and historic period cultures of the American Southwest and Midwest (Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder, 1972). Anderson has published numerous papers and monographs in the fields of archaeology, ethnohistory, paleontology, and museum studies. |
 | Bruce BernsteinResearch Associate, 2010–PresentBruce Bernstein holds a PhD and MA in anthropology from the University of New Mexico. At museums in Santa Fe and Washington DC, he developed inclusive collections and exhibition programs that ensure that day-to-day and special projects were formulated and led by Native intellectualism. |
 | James F. BrooksStaff Scholar, 2002–PresentPresident James F. Brooks is an ethnohistorian – trained in both history and anthropology – fascinated by the social exchanges and fluid identities expressed in complex cultural borderlands, whether nearby in the Southwest or more distant in Latin America, Central Asia, or Africa. |
 | Cynthia Chavez LamarStaff Scholar, 2007–PresentCynthia Chavez Lamar has an art background in clay sculpting, printmaking, and photography and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. She previously worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, where she curated the Native community components of the inaugural exhibition. |
 | Dean FalkSenior Scholar, 2010–PresentDean Falk is a biological anthropologist who studies the evolution of the brain and cognition. Current writing projects focus on the endocast of an australopithecine infant, the evolution of the neurological substrates of conscience, and Charles Darwin’s views about human evolution. |
 | George J. GumermanSenior Scholar, 2005–PresentSenior Scholar George J. Gumerman has been a leader in major theoretical advances in his field since the 1960s. He is at the forefront of using computer modeling to simulate the cultural evolution of the prehistoric Southwest. |
 | John KantnerStaff Scholar, 2006–PresentSAR Vice President John Kantner is an anthropological archaeologist with experiences ranging from Spanish Colonial historic sites in New Mexico and Georgia, to pre-Hispanic traditions of southern Central America, to early nomadic sites of the Southern Plains. |
 | Dwight LanmonResearch Associate, 2010–PresentDwight P. Lanmon is a Research Associate at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, as well as SAR. The collections of the Indian Arts Research Center and the Catherine McElvain Library are central to his research and publication. |
 | Nancy Owen LewisResearch Associate, 2011–PresentDr. Nancy Owen Lewis received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and has taught anthropology at the University of Alabama and the University of Arkansas. Her current research focuses on the health seeker movement in New Mexico. |
 | Susan Brown McGreevyResearch Associate, 2010–PresentSusan Brown McGreevy is a noted authority on the folk art, basketry, and textiles of Navajo and neighboring Indian tribes, and an anthropologist with interests in contemporary issues that impact the development of Southwestern Indian arts and culture. |
 | Malena MörlingResearch Associate, 2010–PresentMalena Mörling is a poet and assistant professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington whose work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including The New York Times Book Review and The New Republic. |
 | Douglas W. SchwartzSenior Scholar, 2000–PresentDouglas Schwartz received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1950 and went on to complete his Ph.D in anthropology at Yale University in 1955. He has received numerous honors including a Litt.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1981, and another Litt. D. from the University of Kentucky in 1989. |
 | Nicole TaylorStaff Scholar, 2011–PresentDr. Taylor, SAR's Director of Scholar Programs, holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona. Her research explores the interplay between gender, identity, and everyday discourse among youth vis-à-vis sociocultural factors related to weight. |
Former SAR Researchers
| N. Scott MomadaySenior Scholar, 2006–2010Scott Momaday is a poet, a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist, a playwright, a painter, a storyteller, and a professor of English and American literature. He is a Native American (Kiowa), and among his chief interests are Native American art and oral tradition. |
| Linda S. CordellSenior Scholar, 2006–2013Linda S. Cordell is an archaeologist whose primary research is in the U.S. Southwest with an emphasis on the 14th- and 15th-century northern and central Rio Grande Valley Ancestral Pueblo peoples. |
