Crow Canyon People

Our people make us who we are.

Kayci Cook-Collins

Mesa Verde National Park

Kayci Cook Collins became Superintendent of Mesa Verde National Park and Yucca House National Monument in September 2021.

Sandra Zarzycka

2019 Field Intern

Sandra is interested in understanding human-environmental interactions within the American Southwest using geographical and geoarchaeological perspectives.

Sarah Amelia Foster

2019 Lab Intern

Sarah studies the preceramic and early agricultural periods of the northern Southwest region of the U.S.

Margaret C. (Peggy) Nelson

Research Institute Advisor

President’s Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change and Vice Dean of Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.

Paulette Steeves

Algoma University

Paulette Steeves. Ph.D. (Cree- Metis) is an Indigenous archaeologist.

Bruce Bradley

University of Exeter

Bruce Bradley is Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter, Research Associate at the Smithsonian, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (Bengaluru), and certified to teach at several South American universities.

Marit Munson

Trent University

Deedee M. Decker

Board of Trustees

Deedee is a cattle rancher and former television producer at WGBH in Boston and WNET in New York. She lives in Denver and Ridgway, Colorado, and has served on the Board since 2006.

Karen Adams

Research Associate; Independent Researcher

Karen is a paleoethnobotanist focused on plants important in subsistence and for other daily needs.

Deloria Lomawaima

2019 Native Scholar in Residence

Deloria (Hopi) is a Crow Canyon High School Field School student alum, National Endowment for the Humanities scholar, and has taught countless students as a former Crow Canyon employee.

Jonathan Dubois

California State University San Bernardino

Jonathan J. Dubois (Ph.D. UC Riverside 2017), adjunct professor at California State University San Bernardino, is a landscape archaeologist and iconographer whose work lies at the intersection between symbolism, landscape, and social organization in past societies of Northwestern South America and Belize.

Radek Palonka

Research Institute; 2005 Intern

Radoslaw (Radek) examines settlement structure and the socio-cultural changes around Sand Canyon Pueblo during the 13th Century.