Farewell Statement by President Michael F. Brown
Michael F. Brown in the SAR President’s Garden in 2014. …
Author: Michael F. Brown
Remembering J. J. Brody and Duane Anderson
In the past few weeks, SAR lost two important friends and accomplished scholars, J. J. Brody and Duane C. Ande…
Three SAR Alumni in the National News
Ned Blackhawk (1996), Tiya Miles (2007), and Jeffrey Gibson (2019) at SAR. The Sun…
2024: A Look Ahead
New Year’s festivities inevitably include reviews of the year that’s …
Barbara H. Tedlock, 1942-2023
Barbara Tedlock at Maya-themed holiday party, SAR Dobkin Boardroom, 2016 The School for Advanced Research is sad to report news of the death on September 11, 2023, of…
SAR Alumna Tiya Miles Interviewed for the NY Times Book Review
Tiya Miles, 2007 An interview of Tiya Miles (History, Harvard), an SAR resident scholar in 2007-2008, appeared in the New York Times Book Review’s “By the Book”…
SAR Honored for Architectural Stewardship by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation
In a public award event held at San Miguel Chapel on May 18, the School for Advanced Research received the Historic Santa Fe Foundation’s 2023 Preservation Award for…
Worried about the impact of AI? SAR was ahead of the curve.
[Featured image courtesy of Mike MacKenzie, https://www.vpnsrus.com/, and Wikimedia Commons] Various SAR members have suggested that SAR bring to Santa Fe an expert to talk about the possibilities…
Reflections on the Origin of a Dangerous Concept
On April 13 and 14, 2023, SAR hosted two events focused on the invention of the concept of race in eighteenth-century Europe and its implications. The conversation was…
Hugh Raffles Named 2023 Winner of J.I. Staley Prize
SAR is pleased to announce that Hugh Raffles, Professor and Anthropology Department Chair at the New School for Social Research, has been named winner of the 2023 J.…
SAR Artist Alumnus Co-Curates Important Exhibition of Native American Photography
Will Wilson, William Wilson, citizen of the Navajo Nation, trans-customary Diné artist, 2012. Will Wilson, the Santa Fe-based Navajo photographer and 2013 Rollin and Mary Ella King…
2022 Staley Prize Awarded to J. Lorand Matory at Duke University
On November 3, 2022, SAR President Michael F. Brown presented the 2022 J.I. Staley Prize to J. Lorand Matory, Duke University, at an event in Durham, North Carolina,…
Another New Resident Scholar Book: Undocumented Saints
Did you know that La Santa Muerte (“Saint Death”) is worshipped by some residents of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands? Likewise Santa Olguita, a feminist saint associated with border womenR…
SAR Alumna Publishes Award-Winning Book on Community & Ethnic Change in South Central L.A.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC), a 2017-2018 Weatherhead Fellow, was recently honored for a book written during her time at SAR. South Central Dreams: Finding Ho…
SAR Members Tour Chaco Canyon and Related Sites
Steve Lekson briefing members at Chetro Ketl Chaco Canyon and the so-called “Chaco Phenomenon” have long evoked intense interest among SAR members. Our long tradition of annual Chaco…
SAR Board Member Appointed to Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President Biden
Alex W. Barker, who joined the SAR board of directors in August, has been appointed by President Biden to the federal government’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC). Alex…