Worried about the impact of AI? SAR was ahead of the curve.
[Featured image courtesy of Mike MacKenzie, https://www.vpnsrus.com/, and Wikimedia Commons] Various SAR members have suggested that SAR bring to Santa Fe an expert to talk about the possibilities and risks of deploying artificial intelligence (AI). We’re...
Reflections on the Origin of a Dangerous Concept
On April 13 and 14, 2023, SAR hosted two events focused on the invention of the concept of race in eighteenth-century Europe and its implications. The conversation was led by noted Harvard faculty member and PBS personality Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and his colleague...
Hugh Raffles Named 2023 Winner of J.I. Staley Prize
SAR is pleased to announce that Hugh Raffles, Professor and Anthropology Department Chair at the New School for Social Research, has been named winner of the 2023 J. I. Staley Prize for The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (New York: Verse Chorus...
SAR Artist Alumnus Co-Curates Important Exhibition of Native American Photography
Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King Artist Fellow at SAR, has co-curated a major exhibition of contemporary Native American photography at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. The...
2022 Staley Prize Awarded to J. Lorand Matory at Duke University
On November 3, 2022, SAR President Michael F. Brown presented the 2022 J.I. Staley Prize to J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, at an event in Durham, North Carolina, hosted by Duke’s School of Arts & Sciences. Matory is the Lawrence Richardson Distinguished...
Another New Resident Scholar Book: Undocumented Saints
Did you know that La Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”) is worshipped by some residents of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? Likewise Santa Olguita, a feminist saint associated with border women’s experience of sexual violence? These and other emerging folk...
SAR Alumna Publishes Award-Winning Book on Community & Ethnic Change in South Central L.A.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. (NYU Press), co-authored with Manuel Pastor, is a...
SAR Members Tour Chaco Canyon and Related Sites
Chaco Canyon and the so-called “Chaco Phenomenon” have long evoked intense interest among SAR members. Our more-or-less annual tradition of Chaco field trips continued in mid-August, when fourteen members and SAR staff spent three days visiting Chaco,...
SAR Board Member Appointed to Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President Biden
Alex W. Barker, who joined the SAR board of directors in August, has been appointed by President Biden to the federal government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC). Barker, who currently serves as director of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, is a...Upcoming Events
Sep
26
Tue
2023
8:30 am
Member Trip to Canyon de Chelly:...
Member Trip to Canyon de Chelly:...
Sep 26 @ 8:30 am – Sep 28 @ 6:00 pm
Due to high demand, we are offering this trip again in September 2023: Intimate Journey to Navajo Nation’s Canyon de Chelly: Past and Present DATES: September 26-28, 2023 Cost per person: Double Occupancy: $1,000 (Includes[...]
Sep
27
Wed
2023
1:00 pm
Scholar Colloquium: The Year the...
@ SAR Dobkin Boardroom & on Zoom
Scholar Colloquium: The Year the...
@ SAR Dobkin Boardroom & on Zoom
Sep 27 @ 1:00 pm
Philip Deloria Katrin H. Lamon Fellow Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History Harvard University In “The Year the Stars Fell” Philip Deloria explores the material history of an event—the extraordinary meteor storm of November 1833—that revealed[...]
Sep
29
Fri
2023
10:00 am
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Sep 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Map of El Delirio (1927), now SAR’s campus Explore the fascinating history, stunning architecture, and beautiful outdoor gardens—including the famous pet cemetery—of the 1920s home of Amelia Elizabeth White and Martha Root White. The secluded[...]
Oct
4
Wed
2023
1:00 pm
Scholar Colloquium: Congo Crafte...
@ SAR Dobkin Boardroom & on Zoom
Scholar Colloquium: Congo Crafte...
@ SAR Dobkin Boardroom & on Zoom
Oct 4 @ 1:00 pm
Sarah Van Beurden Weatherhead Fellow Associate Professor, African-American and African Studies Ohio State University Dr. Sarah Van Beurden studies the lives and afterlives of three disappeared and forgotten colonial craft genres in Congo: ivory carving,[...]
Oct
6
Fri
2023
10:00 am
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Oct 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Map of El Delirio (1927), now SAR’s campus Explore the fascinating history, stunning architecture, and beautiful outdoor gardens—including the famous pet cemetery—of the 1920s home of Amelia Elizabeth White and Martha Root White. The secluded[...]
Oct
13
Fri
2023
10:00 am
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Oct 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Map of El Delirio (1927), now SAR’s campus Explore the fascinating history, stunning architecture, and beautiful outdoor gardens—including the famous pet cemetery—of the 1920s home of Amelia Elizabeth White and Martha Root White. The secluded[...]
Oct
18
Wed
2023
1:00 pm
Scholar Colloquium: Anti-Haitian...
@ SAR Dobkin Boardroom & on Zoom
Scholar Colloquium: Anti-Haitian...
@ SAR Dobkin Boardroom & on Zoom
Oct 18 @ 1:00 pm
Bertin M. Louis, Jr. Wenner-Gren Fellow Associate Professor, Anthropology University of Kentucky In his co-authored book project with Dr. Charmane Perry, Dr. Louis presents a study about the historical foundation and the contemporary realities of[...]
Oct
20
Fri
2023
10:00 am
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Walking History Tour of the SAR ...
@ School for Advanced Research
Oct 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Map of El Delirio (1927), now SAR’s campus Explore the fascinating history, stunning architecture, and beautiful outdoor gardens—including the famous pet cemetery—of the 1920s home of Amelia Elizabeth White and Martha Root White. The secluded[...]