Sylvia Ann Grider Author

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA

Joan Alessi has completed photographic projects for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the Museum of Indian Arts and Crafts, and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. She resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sylvia Ann Grider, emeritus professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University, was asked to be Director of the Bonfire Memorabilia Project after the fatal collapse of the student-built Aggie Bonfire in 1999. That work led to her current research on roadside crosses.