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In the Vault: A Beautifully Made Basket

by Sarah Soliz | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog

SAR Indian Arts Research Center staff members reflect on their favorite pieces from the collections. Read about the basket selected by IARC registrar Jennifer Day.

Industrializing Animal Life and Death: A Conversation with Alex Blanchette

by Sarah Soliz | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog

Alex Blanchette was SAR’s 2012–2013 Weatherhead resident scholar, co-organizer of the 2016 Advanced Seminar “How Nature Works,” and co-editor of How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet, published by SAR Press in 2019. SAR recently spoke with him about his new book and the effects of COVID-19 on the meatpacking industry.

SAR Welcomes 2020–2021 Resident Scholars

by Sarah Soliz | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog

We are pleased to announce SAR’s 2020–2021 resident scholars. Fellows develop their work on our unique campus, which provides a combination of solitude, freedom from institutional responsibilities, and lively exchange of ideas.

Abolishing Immigration Detention: A Conversation with Deborah Boehm

by Sarah Soliz | Aug 13, 2020 | Blog, Community Mentions

Deborah A. Boehm was a 2013 visiting research associate at SAR and is now a professor in the Department of Anthropology and chair of the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She will be participating in a conversation with Jason De León and other scholars during SAR’s Beyond Borders Symposium on August 21, 2020, 10:00 a.m. MDT. We spoke about her year as a Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society fellow and her most recent work on the US immigration detention system.

Diversity and Inclusion: A Conversation with John Nieto-Phillips

by Sarah Soliz | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog

In August of 2019, Professor John Nieto-Phillips joined SAR’s board of directors. He has brought to SAR a dedication to opening academic institutions to underrepresented communities and has helped develop anti-bias workshops for faculty who serve on hiring committees,...

Processing a Pandemic: A Conversation with Alan Swedlund

by Sarah Soliz | Jul 28, 2020 | Blog

To understand pandemics you have to know what’s going on in the small places because a pandemic is not uniform around the country or uniform by age or uniform by class or anything.

Mentors and Friends: SAR’s 2019–2020 Resident Scholars

by Sarah Soliz | Jul 10, 2020 | Blog

Every year SAR welcomes a new cohort of resident scholars, who spend nine months studying, writing, and participating in the intellectual life of the campus. As usual, the 2019–2020 scholars brought with them a variety of interests and projects, but they came together in their appreciation of the time, the place, and the community they found here.

Archaeologies of Empire

by Sarah Soliz | Jul 9, 2020 | Advanced Seminar, Ancient Americas, Archaeology, General Anthropology, History/Social Sciences, Indigenous Peoples, Recently Published Titles, SAR Press

2020. Edited by Anna L. Boozer, Bleda S. Düring, and Bradley J. Parker

This book demonstrates how archaeological research can contribute to our conceptualization of empires across disciplinary boundaries.

Bearing Witness and Raising Awareness: A Conversation with Jason De León

by Sarah Soliz | Jul 1, 2020 | Blog

Jason De León, SAR’s 2013–2014 Weatherhead fellow and a 2017 MacArthur fellow, is a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a non-profit research-art-education-media collective. I recently spoke with him to learn more about his new exhibition: Hostile Terrain 94.

In the Vault: Miniature Basket Illustrates the Big Impact of Tiny Things

by Sarah Soliz | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog

Over the last few weeks, SAR Indian Arts Research Center staff members have spent some time reflecting on their favorite pieces from the collection. Here is one of the pieces that was selected by IARC collections assistant Molly Winslow.