mzedeno@u.arizona.edu
(520)621-9607
Anthropology Building Room 316
P.O. Box 210030, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030
curriculum vitae

Program: Native American Cultural Revitalization Program

Research Interests
María Nieves Zedeño is an Associate Research Anthropologist with specialization in the late prehistory, ethnohistory, and ethnology of native North America, with field experience and publications in the Southwest, Great Basin, and upper Midwest, and ongoing research in the northern Plains and mid-South. Dr. Zedeño has worked for eleven years at BARA on environmental and cultural assessment projects involving American Indians and federal agencies, acting as the principal investigator on several of them. Dr. Zedeño has published a monograph and a number of articles regarding American Indian cultural landscapes (e.g., Zedeño 1997, 2000; Stoffle, Zedeño, and Halmo 2001, Triadan and Zedeño 2004); archaeology (e.g., Zedeño 1994, 1998, 2003, 2005; Zedeño and Triadan 2000) and history of anthropology (Zedeño, ed. 1999). She has directed cultural affiliation and ethnographic resource assessment projects for national parks in Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Missouri, and collaborated with Richard Stoffle and Rebecca Toupal on many other federally funded endeavors, especially in southern Nevada. One of her recently completed studies involved collaborative research with the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana to justify an expansion of the current Badger-Two Medicine Traditional Cultural District in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Currently she is conducting ethnographic work on the upper Missouri River in North Dakota and Montana, and on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio.