Professor, Department Anthropology
Binghamton University
Biography: Randall McGuire (BA University of Texas, MA & PhD University of Arizona) was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and grew up in Colorado, Texas, and Montana. He became fascinated with archaeology as a child visiting bison jump sites on the high plains. His experiences in the U.S. army and the anti-war movement during the Viet Nam war brought him to a radical view of modern society. His research interests include the prehistory of the Southwest/Northwest, and 19th- and 20th-century class relations in the United States. He is the author or co-author of 15 books or monographs and over 100 articles or book chapters. He has received a total of 18 research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the Colorado Historical Society. In the spring of 1999, he was a Fulbright Teaching Fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in Spain. In 2002, the American Anthropological Association gave him the McGraw-Hill AAA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology. He and Elisa Villalpando of the Centro INAH de Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora have studied the Trincheras Tradition of northern Sonora, Mexico for the last 25 years. He is currently working with a team of US and Mexican scholars to repatriate Yaqui Indian remains that Alex Hrdlicka took from the Sierra Mazatan battlefield in Sonora México, in 1902. His latest book from University of California Press is Archaeology as Political Action.
