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Southwestern Roots in Central Mexico: 4,000 Years of Cultural Interaction

A free lecture series culminating in the travel tour Tucson, Tula & Tlaxcala: 4,000 Years of Cultural Interaction June 7-16, 2008

Suzanne Fish, Ph.D. is a curator of archaeology at Arizona State Museum and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Suzy combines archaeological research in the southwest U.S., northwest Mexico, and Brazil with studies of ethnobotany and traditional agriculture. She has directed long-term research and published extensively on the Hohokam of southern Arizona and the Trincheras culture of Sonora, Mexico.

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Patricia Fournier, Ph.D. is a University of Arizona alumna, an ASM visiting scholar, and a Smithsonian Institution research associate (National Museum of Natural History). She is a full-time professor in the archaeology graduate program at the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico City, where she teaches Spanish colonial archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. Patricia directs a long-term research program in the Tula region, and has been a principal in the study of the Camino Real. Her publications include books, monographs, and articles on the pre-Columbian archaeology, history, and ethnohistory of Tula, as well as on the archaeology and history of the borderlands.

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Paul Fish, Ph.D. is a curator of archaeology at Arizona State Museum (ASM) and a professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Prior to coming to ASM, he was senior archaeologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona and taught at the University of Georgia. Paul has conducted research on a wide range of archaeological cultures throughout the southwest U.S., northwest Mexico, and Brazil. His current research focuses on the political and social organization of the Hohokam in southern Arizona. He publishes widely on his field investigations, as well as on archaeological methodology.

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William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. He earned his Ph.D. in Latin American history at the University of Nebraska under the direction of Dr. Michael C. Meyer, the well-known Mexicanist who later taught at the UA for over thirty years. Professor Beezley researches 19th and 20th century Mexican history, with an emphasis on the intersection of culture and politics. His publications include Judas the Jockey Club, The Oxford History of Mexico (with Michael C. Meyer), and El Gran Pueblo (with Colin MacLachlan).

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Michael M. Brescia is assistant curator of Ethnohistory in the Arizona State Museum and assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona. His research includes the legacies of Spanish and Mexican water law in the American Southwest and the role of Catholicism in Mexican history. His research has appeared in such as journals as the Colonial Latin American Historical Review and the Catholic Historical Review. His first book, North America: An Introduction (with John C. Super) will be published 2008 by the University of Toronto Press.

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This lecture series was made possible in part by a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council and was designated a "We the People" project by the National Endowment for the Humanities.