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.
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 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...
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...
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…
Both Ned Blackhawk (Katrin Lamon Fellow, 1996-1997; SAR Board of Directors 2017-2023) and Tiya Miles (SAR Fellow, 2007-2008) have been named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards these fellowships annually to “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.”
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...
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:...
Image: Collections review with the Pueblo of Acoma at the Indian Arts Research Center The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is honored to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $900,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The...
New Year’s festivities inevitably include reviews of the year that’s winding down. For SAR’s first blog post of 2024, I prefer to pivot toward the near future. Although some details have yet to fall into place, I’m pleased to identify highlights of...
