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Bureau of Applied
Research in Anthropology
Haury/Anthropology Room 316
P.O. Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
Tel: (520) 621-6282
Fax: (520) 621-9608
Chair of Research Affairs
Dr. Diane E. Austin
Haury/Anthropology Room 316
Tel: (520) 621-3879
daustin@email.arizona.edu
Chair of Administrative Affairs
Dr. María Nieves Zedeño
Haury/Anthropology Room 316
Tel: (520) 621-9607
mzedeno@email.arizona.edu
Faculty Members
Chair of Research Affairs, Associate Research Anthropologist
520-626-3879
520-621-9608
Geronimo 350C & Haury 316A
curriculum vitae
Dr. Diane Austin’s work examines the impacts of the offshore oil and gas industry in communities along the Gulf of Mexico; addresses environmental issues along the Arizona-Sonora border, and involves Southern Paiute cultural resource and environmental monitoring and education in the context of the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. She conducts most of her work in...
Chair of Administrative Affairs, Research Anthropologist
520-621-9607
520-621-9608
Haury 318
curriculum vitae
I am a North American archaeologist, who, upon joining the Native American Cultural Resource Revitalization Program at BARA in 1994, saw an opportunity to apply my archaeological skills to topics of contemporary relevance to Native Americans. For 15 years now, my research agenda has focused mainly on integrating archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography into projects designed to...
Associate Research Anthropologist
520-621-2624
520-621-9608
Haury 316B & Geronimo 308
curriculum vitae
Research Anthropologist
520-621-6972
520-621-9608
Geronimo 300
curriculum vitae
I was born in Bad Axe, Michigan, and raised in Port Austin, a small town of friendly bean farmers situated on the shores of Lake Huron. I studied literature and history at the University of Detroit, then at the University College of Dublin. Upon graduation, with the weight of the Vietnam...
Research Anthropologist
520-621-6316
520-621-9608
Geronimo 324
curriculum vitae
Dr. Greenberg's areas of expertise lie in political ecology, natural resource anthropology, economic anthropology, globalization, law and development, violence, urban anthropology, migration, household livelihoods, peasants, Latin America, and the borderlands. Dr. Greenberg has worked in peasant and...
Research Anthropologist
520-626-7638
520-621-9608
Geronimo 336 & Haury 316A
curriculum vitae
Tom McGuire grew up in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, spending an occasional summer on Casco Bay, Maine. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan, majoring in anthropology and history. Wanting a change of scenery and climate, he enrolled in the...
Research Anthropologist
520-621-2462
520-621-9608
Haury 319
curriculum vitae
As an applied cultural anthropologist I have spent my professional career trying to understand human problems and provide systematic research findings that may be used to reduce these problems. For the past four decades my applied research has contributed to Social Impact Assessment studies, which are normally a component of a Environmental Impact Assessment that is required...
Associate Research Anthropologist
520-626-3331
520-621-9608
Harvill 345 & Geronimo 332
curriculum vitae
Marcela was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. She has an interdisciplinary background, with a Ph.D. in Anthropology and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arizona. Currently, she has a joint appointment at BARA and the Center for Latin American Studies.
Associate Research Anthropologist
520-626-8811
520-621-9608
Geronimo 113
curriculum vitae
Drexel G. Woodson, Associate Research Anthropologist, joined the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona in 1990. Woodson, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attended the city's public schools, including Central High School (B.A., 1969). After studying cultural anthropology at Yale University (B.A., 1973), he took graduate degrees at...