Crow Canyon People

Our people make us who we are.

Lisbeth Louderback

Natural History Museum of Utah

Lisbeth Louderback, Curator of Archaeology, Natural History Museum of Utah and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Utah

Chris Guiterman

University of Arizona

Chris Guiterman is an assistant research professor at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona.

Jim Allison

Brigham Young University

Ricardo Caté

Santa Fe New Mexican

Ricardo draws “Without Reservations,” the only Native cartoon that appears in a mainstream newspaper as a daily.

Joseph H. Suina

Board of Trustees; Pueblo Advisory Group

Joseph is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Mexico College of Education, former Governor of Cochiti Pueblo, and former Director of the Institute for American Indian Education. Joseph joined Crow Canyon’s Native American Advisory Group in 2008 and has served on the Board since 2009.

Born and raised in the Four Corners region of Southwest Colorado, Amorina’s scholarly interests revolve around the Dolores River, a tributary of the Colorado River originating in the mountains near her home.

David R. Abbott

1993 Lister Fellow

David studies Hohokam social organization based on patterns of ceramics exchange. Applications of the methodology show that hydraulic management had a pervasive influence on the organization of Hohokam social networks.

EJ White

Controller

EJ oversees payroll, receivables and payables and works with department heads on grant budgets and financial reporting.

Richard G. Ballantine

Board of Trustees

Richard is the retired publisher of The Durango Herald, Southwest Colorado’s daily newspaper, and the past president of the Fort Lewis College Board of Trustees. He lives in Durango and has served on the Board since 1988.

Grant Snitker

University of Georgia

Matthew Pailes

2013 Lister Fellow

Matt’s research interests include developing economic and mathematical models that quantify the interactions between humans and their environment and that identify the emergent properties of the resulting interactions.

Kari Schleher

Research Associate; 1999 Intern; Maxwell Museum and University of New Mexico

Kari is an anthropological archaeologist interested in material culture as a means of understanding past social relationships.