Lee Rains Clauss Editor

Sonya Atalay is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and received postdoctoral funding from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Atalay's primary research interests are related to engaged anthropology - particularly the use of community-based research methodologies, intellectual property in relation to indigenous cultural heritage and research ethics and protocols when working with indigenous communities. She has served on and chaired committees within the American Anthropological Association and the Society for American Archaeology and two terms as a member for the National Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Review Committee. Her recent book, Community-based Archaeology: Research with, by and for Indigenous and Local Communities (2012, University of California Press) provides theoretical discussions and methodological guidance on conducting community based participatory archaeology and cultural heritage research. Lee Rains Clauss is an archaeologist and advocate for Native American communities' sovereignty and stewardship of cultural resources. She has 15 years of experience in historic preservation law and federal regulatory compliance, with a broad theoretical and technical background that also includes architectural history, Tribal heritage management, curation and community-based participatory research. Her degrees include a B.S. in Historic Preservation from Southeast Missouri State University and an M.A. in Anthropology with an emphasis in Applied Archaeology from Northern Arizona University. Clauss currently works as a consultant for the Sherwood Valley Rancheria of Pomo's Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) in California and was previously employed as the Historic Preservation Specialist for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina; a THPO intern/assistant for the White Mountain Apache in Arizona; and a curation and NAGPRA fellow for the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC). Clauss also teaches courses in Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Native American History and Culture and Tribal and Ethnic Religions. Clauss is actively involved in professional service and currently serves as the chair of the Society for American Archaeology Government Affairs Committee. Randall H. McGuire is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. He received his BA from the University of Texas and his MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. He has taught at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and at the Esquela Nacional de Antropologia y Historia in Mexico City. He has published extensively on Marxist theory and Indigenous archaeology. From 1996 to 2007, he and Dean Saitta of the University of Denver directed the Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War, 1913-1914 project near Trinidad, Colorado. He has worked with Elisa Villalpando of the Centro INAH, Sonora for 29 years investigating the Trincheras Tradition of northern Sonora, Mexico. The Spanish summary of their excavations at Cerro de Trincheras, Entre Muros de Piedra was published in Hermosillo, Sonora in 2010. The full site report on the excavations was published by the Arizona State Museum in 2011. His latest books include Archaeology as Political Action , The Archaeology of Class War with Karin Larkin, and Ideologies in Archaeology with Reinhard Bernbeck. He recently published "Steel Walls and Picket Fences: Rematerializing the U.S.-Mexican Border in Ambos Nogales" in American Anthropologist (2013, 115(3):466-480). John R. Welch is a Canada research chair and associate professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Archaeology and School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. He received his A.B. from Hamilton College and MA and PhD from the University of Arizona. Welch is an applied archaeologist with research, teaching and outreach commitments that centre on collaborations with indigenous nations on projects at the interface of anthropology, resource management and cultural perpetuation. Since the mid-1980s, Welch has facilitated partnerships with the White Mountain Apache and other tribes in upland Arizona and First Nations in coastal British Columbia. Against a backdrop of ongoing reassessments of what to conserve in the face of global change, Welch mobilises indigenous knowledge and advances indigenous community and broader public agendas for stewardship of sociocultural and biophysical legacies. He is a member of the steering committee for the Intellectual Property in Cultural Heritage Project. Kinishba Lost and Found , a 2013 book Welch edited on legacy collections from Kinishba Ruins National Historic Landmark, was published in 2013 by the Arizona State Museum.