Education:
1968 Ph.D. Harvard University
1966 M.A. Harvard University
1962 B.A. Stanford University
Professional Appointments:
2009-present
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
2001-08
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology University of New Mexico
2001-02
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, New York.
1986-99
Full Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
1985-86
Full Professor, Brown University
1979-85
Associate Professor, Brown University.
1976-79
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.
1968-75
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Brown University.
1967-68
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester.
Elected Offices
1999-01 President, American Anthropological Association.
1997-99 President Elect, American Anthropological Association.1995-97 Chair, Association for Feminist Anthropology.
1987-89 President, American Ethnological Association.
Awards
1998
The Squeaky Wheel Award; American Anthropological Association Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology.
1997
Annual Research Lecture; University of New Mexico.
1995
SANA Prize for Critical Study of North America. Executive Board of the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
1994
Conrad Arensberg Award; Society for the Anthropology of Work
Snead-Wertheim Lectureship; University of New Mexico Board of Regents
Academic Honors: Research Grants, Fellowships, and Awards
2007
Co- PI Andrew Mellon Foundation. “Building Future Leadership for the Advancement of Native American and Latino Humanistic Social Science at the University of New Mexico.” Principle Investigator with Michael Graves (Chair, Anthropology, University of New Mexico).
2006-11
Senior Anthropologist. Multi-Method Ethnographic Assessment of Behavioral Health Reform in New Mexico. National Institute of Mental Health Program on “Research on Rural Mental Health and Drug Abuse Disorders.” Cathleen Willging, PI.
2004-07
Co-PI. National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant awarded to UNM Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies.
1998-00
Coordinator for Ethnographic Team and Co-PI. “Multi-method Assessment of Medicaid Managed Care.” Agency for Health Care Policy and Research/NIH. Howard Waitzkin, UNM Department of Family and Community Medicine, PI.
1987-91
Project Board Member and Co-Director, Changing Relations in U.S. Communities: Newcomers and Established Residents. Selection and administration of six team research projects with Ford Foundation Grant.
06/1985-12/1986
“Working Families and Sunbelt Industrialization: Changes in the Home and Work Place,” funded by Russell Sage Foundation.
09/1981-08/1983
Research on “Women’s Work and Family Strategies in the Context of ‘Sunbelt’ Industrialization” funded by National Science Foundation, Anthropology Program. Peter B. Evans and Louise Lamphere, Co-Principal Investigators.
06/1975-05/1978
Research on “Women, Work and Ethnicity in an Urban Setting,” funded by National Institute of Mental Health, Center for the Study of Metropolitan Problems.
Louise Lamphere 