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After graduating Notre Dame HS in 1964 in Sherman Oaks, aka Lost Angeles, CA, I attend UCLA for 2 yrs as physics major, then transferred to UC Berkeley, where I spent almost 2 years as Engineering and Physics major, then switch to Anthro, escaping in 1970. Then after a BA in Anthro at Berkeley, and MA at Michigan, I end up teaching Anthropology at Navajo Community College, then in Many Farms, AZ in the middle of the Navajo Nation. The wierdness of that is beyond description. That is where I found interests in the connections between very local processes and global processes. When OPEC ran its first oil boycott it affected chapter [like a township] politics among the Navajo [Diné]. Also where and when role of history in current events became obvious to me. For instance, sheep and silversmithing arrived with Spaniards, but became thoroughly “Navajoized.”

So after assorted futzing around for a few years I went to U Dub [University of Washington, Seattle] and got a Ph.D. in Sociology. Ended up at University of Oklahoma from 1981 thru 1988 [tenured in 87], had visiting gigs at University of Lowell and Northeastern, then in 1989 went to DePauw University in Greencastle, IN [favorite alum: Barbara Kingsolver], where I held the Lester M. Jones chair until 2007, then held Edward Myers Dolan Chair from 07-09. In 1995 spent 4 months no of Bangkok, on sabbatical accopaning my wife, Jean A. Poland, on here library fellowship to Asian Institute of Technology. In 96 went to East-West Center in Hawai’i for Southeast Asian Study Fellowship, and the following summer toured SE Asia with EWC.

In 1999 Jean took a job in library administration at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, here dream job. We started a long-distance commute. In 99-00 & 04-05, I got a visiting gig at Colgate University as A. Lindsay O=Connor Professor of American Institutions, and 05-06 was on sabbatical. Both tired of commuting so now retired or retiring. Now I am in phased retirement. Fall 09 I’ll be directing Colgate University’s Santa Fe Study Group, in Santa Fe, NM., then I’ll be on sabbatical for 3 terms.

Trying to figure out how to be retired! Reading mysteries, watching 'chop 'em up' flicks, clearing years of backlog off my desk!
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