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Research Anthropologist, Southwest Center
Professor, School of Anthropology
Tom Sheridan is Research Anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the Southwest Center and School of Anthropology. He is an historical and environmental anthropologist who has worked in the Southwest and Northern Mexico for more than forty years. Author or co-editor of 13 books, he serves on Pima County's Conservation Acquisition Commission and as Community Representative of the Altar Valley Conservation Alliance, a grassroots organization of ranchers west of Tucson. His research interests include political ecology, community and conservation, and environmental history.
Selected Citations:
Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes (co-edited with Susan Charnley and Gary Nabhan). University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Arizona: A History (Revised Edition). University of Arizona Press, 2012. Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacacori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O'odham. University of Arizona Press, 2006.
Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Vol. I (with Stewart Koyiyumptewa, Anton Daughters, Dale Brenneman, Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, and LeeWayne Lomayestewa). University of Arizona Press, In Press.
Geographic Region:
Latin America and Caribbean
US / Canada
US Southwest
Research Themes: