Whiskey Del Bac is honored to host Thomas E. Sheridan, Ph.D. for the next lecture in our Armchair Anthropology Series! Join us and Tucson’s “Armchair Anthropologists” for this free event!

Sheridan is a retired Research Anthropologist, formerly at the Southwest Center and Professor of Anthropology in the University of Arizona School of Anthropology. Tom has conducted ethnographic and ethnohistoric research in the Southwest and northern Mexico since 1971.

He has written or co-edited sixteen books and monographs including Arizona: A History, Revised Edition (UA Press 2012), Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham (UA Press 2006), Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes (with Susan Charnley and Gary Nabhan: U Chicago, 2014), The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk on the U.S.-México Line (with Randall McGuire: UA Press 2019), and Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards and the Trauma of History, Vols. I and II (with S. Koyiyumptewa, A. Daughters, D. Brenneman, TJ Ferguson, L. Kuwanwisiwma, and L. Lomayestewa, UA Press, 2015, 2020).  These volumes completed the Hopi History Project, a formal collaboration between the University of Arizona and the Hopi Tribe which compared and contrasted what Spanish officials and Franciscan missionaries wrote about the Hopis (“Moquis”) with Hopi oral traditions about the Spaniards (Kastiilam).  He is currently working with the Pascua Yaqui Tribe on its Beyond the Hiakim, or Yaqui Homeland: Yaqui Mobility and Cultural Landscapes project. He has completed an Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for the National Park Service on ranching at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah and is beginning one at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. He is working on a book entitled A Sea Change in the Desert: The Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan and the Fight Against Sprawl.