Blog: Voices from SAR
Farewell Statement by President Michael F. Brown
Several years ago, I alerted our board of directors of my intention to retire after ten years as SAR’s twelfth president. I am now on the cusp of that milestone. Leading SAR has been a privilege and the pinnacle of my career as an anthropologist and educator. One thing I’ve learned over a long career, however, is that institutions need new leadership at regular intervals to meet the challenges of a changing world. That’s why I chose to step down now.
Celebrating the Past to Support the Future: SAR Gala Honors Fifty Years of Resident Scholar Fellows and Ten Years of Michael Brown’s Presidency
Honoring both fifty years of Resident Scholar Fellows and ten years of Michael F. Brown’s presidency at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), 105 of SAR’s esteemed supporters, board members, and friends gathered together in the newly named Michael F. Brown Plaza for a celebratory evening of bidding, buying, dining, and mingling on the evening of June 8, 2024. Guests remarked on the convivial atmosphere ripe with merriment and good cheer. Embraced by the warm summer air, the Gala unfolded with effortless fluidity, raising an unexpected $280,000 for future educational programming and scholarship.
2023-2024 SAR Mellon Fellow Derek Xavier Garcia Engages with the Rio Grande Valley of Texas Through the Lens of Colegio Jacinto Treviño: the First Mexican-American Institute of Higher Learning
Derek Xavier Garcia’s work is living and active. Not only does he interview members of the community for his dissertation and future book, he engages with them, bringing history to life in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Tiya Miles and Ned Blackhawk Remember Residencies and Impact on Each Other
So far, two SAR Resident Scholar Fellows have won the National Book Award: Tiya Miles in 2021 for her book All that She Carried: the Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake and Ned Blackhawk in 2023 for The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Recently, they took a moment from their very busy schedules to share a little about their residency experiences at SAR, how they impacted their lives, and also a few words about how they influenced each other.
Santa Clara Sibling Scholars Studied the Transformation of a Gendered Pueblo World
In 1996, the Resident Scholar Program at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) did something it had not done before and hasn’t since. Three sibling scholars shared the Katrin H. Lamon fellowship: Rina Swentzell, Tessie Naranjo, and Tito Naranjo from Santa Clara Pueblo.
Remembering J. J. Brody and Duane Anderson
In the past few weeks, SAR lost two important friends and accomplished scholars, J.J. Brody and Duane C. Anderson. Both played important roles in SAR’s history.
Tim A. Kohler, Global Pattern Thinking in Archaeology
1986-87 Weatherhead Fellows, Timothy A. Kohler and Carla M. Sinopoli. Photo courtesy of the School for Advanced Research. In celebration of fifty years of resident scholars at SAR, we are publishing a series of posts about the program and scholars over the years....
Weaving Worlds with Words – the Collaborative Life of Dennis and Barbara Tedlock
There’s one couple who essentially “book-end” the scholars in that group from 1973 and to the 2000s: Barbara and Dennis Tedlock. They were poet scholars. Both taught poetry in addition to anthropology. Both wrote their own poetry and participated in literary readings. Their mission was to “expand and alter the ways in which anthropologists conduct and communicate their work,” expressed in just that way in the preface to the first issue of the American Anthropologist, which they edited as a husband and wife team from 1994-1998.
School for Advanced Research Awards Residential Fellowships to Three Native Artists
Santa Fe, New Mexico—The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024–2025 Native Artist Fellowships: Kevin Aspaas (Navajo), Lynda Teller Pete (Navajo), and Sheridan MacKnight (White Earth Chippewa, Hunkpapa Lakota). Each year...
The First Three Resident Scholar Fellows at SAR
The first three Weatherhead resident scholar fellows on the new campus of the School of American Research in 1974. Left to right: Edwin L. Wade (1973-5), Joann W. Kealiinohomoku (1974-5), Earl Wesley Jernigan (1974-6). Photo courtesy of the School for Advanced...