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...
SAR Board of Directors Announces Appointment of Morris W. Foster as Next SAR President
When Michael F. Brown accepted the role as president for the School for Advanced Research in 2014, he committed to leading the institution for ten years. True to his word, last fall Dr. Brown announced his retirement effective July 2024, ending a tenure of exceptional...
Dream to Reality: Beginnings of the Resident Scholar Program at SAR
Finding and fostering a place for scholars to live, study, and write in community was the dream of Douglas Schwartz. When he visited the School of American Research (SAR) in the fall of 1966 as “program consultant,” Schwartz was so sure he would remain in his tenured anthropology position at the University of Kentucky…
Three SAR Alumni in the National News
Ned Blackhawk (1996), Tiya Miles (2007), and Jeffrey Gibson (2019) at SAR. The Sunday, April 14 edition of the New York Times mentions notable achievements by three SAR alumni. Both Ned Blackhawk (Katrin Lamon Fellow, 1996-1997; SAR Board of Directors 2017-2023)...
SAR Welcomes New Board Directors
Over the past six months, the School for Advanced Research (SAR) Board of Directors appointed eight new Board and Advisory Board members. They bring experience in scholarship, language, marketing, development, social change programs, art history, writing and...
School for Advanced Research Awards the 2024 J. I. Staley Prize to T. M. Luhrmann for “How God Becomes Real”
Top Prize in Scholarship and Writing in Anthropology Awarded for Book That “Shows How Faith Is ‘Kindled’, or Intentionally Brought into Being” Santa Fe, New Mexico—The School for Advanced Research is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 J. I. Staley Prize:...
N. Scott Momaday, 1934–2024
Navarre Scott Momaday, the nation’s most celebrated Native American writer, died at his home in Santa Fe on January 24. He was 89. Momaday, a member of the Kiowa Tribe, is remembered at SAR for his long service to this institution: as a Katrin Lamon Resident...