By Jolene Lujan, Executive Administrator and Board Liaison
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is pleased to welcome four new members and two returning members to its Board of Directors, as well as one new Advisory Board member. These members bring a vast array of experience in many areas, including anthropology, sociology, leadership, and development.
Patricia L. Crown: Patricia is the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at the University of New Mexico, and her extensive research of Chaco Canyon has been supported by the American Philosophical Society, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Geographic Society.
Laura E. Gómez: Laura’s experience includes more than three decades as a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of New Mexico, and she is the author of Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, which she worked on as SAR’s Weatherhead Scholar in 2004-05.
Shirley Fiske: Shirley is an environmental and policy anthropologist and is currently a research professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. She has completed research on climate change for the National Defense Strategy and studies on ethnographic resources for the National Park Service. Shirley is the author of several books, articles, and papers.
Laura Liswood: Laura is the author of four books, including Women World Leaders, a compilation of 19 interviews with women heads of state and heads of government. She is the secretary general of the Council of Women World Leaders, the only organization in the world dedicated to women heads of state and government. Previously, Laura was a managing director and senior advisor at Goldman Sachs and a police officer.
Louise Lamphere, a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita at the University of New Mexico and past president of the American Anthropological Association, returns to the Board.
John Nieto-Phillips, an associate professor of history and Latino studies at Indiana University and author of The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1880s-1930s, returns to the Board.
New to SAR’s Advisory Board is Hampton Sides, acclaimed journalist and author of the bestselling histories Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, Hellhound On His Trail, In the Kingdom of Ice, On Desperate Ground, and The Wide Wide Sea.