Lindsay M. Montgomery
University of Arizona
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
1009 E South Campus Dr.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
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EDUCATION
Stanford UniversityPh.D., 2015Anthropology and Archaeology
Barnard (Columbia University)B.A., 2008Anthropology and Human Rights,cum laude
PUBLICATIONS
(under review) The Vanished Who Endured: Picturing the American Indian School Experience, 1893-1903.University of Colorado Press. Co-authored with Chip Colwell.
(under review) We Take our Place with Us. InIndigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas: Material and Documentary Perspectives on Entanglement, edited by Heather Law-Pezzarossi and Russell Sheptak. University of New Mexico Press.
(under review) Nomadic Economics: The Logic of Comanche New Mexico. InPueblo
Economicus: Alternative Pathways to Socio-Economic Development, edited by S. Ortman.
University of Arizona Press.
(under review) Becoming Animal: The Materiality of Comanche Equestrianism. In Archaeology and the New Materialism, edited by Guido Pezzarossi and Rosemary Joyce. University of Utah Press.
(in press) Altschul,JeffreyH.,Keith W. Kintigh, Terry H. Klein, William H. Doelle, Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin, Sarah A. Herr, Timothy A. Kohler,Barbara J. Mills, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Margaret C. Nelson, Scott G. Ortman, John N. Parker, Matthew A. Peeples, and Jeremy A. Sabloff. Fostering Synthetic Research in Archaeology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
(in press).Altschul,JeffreyH.,Keith W. Kintigh, Terry H. Klein, William H. Doelle, Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin, Sarah A. Herr, Timothy A. Kohler,Barbara J. Mills, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Margaret C. Nelson, Scott G. Ortman, John N. Parker, Matthew A. Peeples, and Jeremy A. SabloffFostering Collaborative Synthetic Research in Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice.
(in press)When the Mountain People Came to Taos: Ute Archaeology in the northern Rio Grande. InSpirit Lands of the Eagle and Bear: Numic Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the American West, edited by Robert Brunswig and David Hill. University Press of Colorado,
Boulder.
2017.Comanche New Mexico. In New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest, edited by John Douglas and Michael W. Graves. University Press ofColorado, Boulder. Co-authored with Severin Fowles, Heather Atherton, and Jimmy Arterberry.
2017. Joyce, R. A. and S.D. Gillespie, eds.,Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in
AnthropologicalPractice (School of Advanced Research, 2015).Journal of Anthropological
Research 73 (1): 129-131
2017Arni Brownstone, War Paintings of the TsuuT’ina Nation (University of
Nebraska, 2015). Museum Anthropology40 (2): 143
NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Native by Design. January 2017. SAPIENS.
Remembering the Ghosts of Wolf, Mauss, and Pritchard. 2017. SAA Archaeological Record
17 (1):42-43.
Problems and Potentials of Mobile Archaeology in New Mexico: A Site Records Overview. NewsMAC2016 (2): 20-29.
Small Fish in a Big Pond. 2016. Anthropology News 57 (7)
Comanche Aesthetics. 2016. Archaeology Southwest Magazine 30 (2):22-24.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Memories that Haunt: Reconciling with the ghosts of the American Indian School
System.” Society for Historical Archaeology, January 3-6, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana.
“Multi-vocal Landscapes: Mapping Mobile Ontologies onto the Northern Rio Grande.” Society for American Archaeology, March 29- April 2, 2017, Vancouver, Canada.
“Rock Art as Indigenous Counter Archive in Eighteenth Century New Mexico.” American Anthropological Association, November 16-20, Minneapolis, MN.
“Networks, Layers, and Lines: Materiality and the Comanche Aesthetic.” Theoretical
Archaeology Group, April 22-24, 2016, Boulder, CO.
“‘Comanche Land and Ever Has Been’: An Indigenous Model of Persistence.” Society for
Historical Archaeology, January 6-9, 2016, Washington, D.C.
“Anarchy, Social Banditry, or Predatory State?: The Logic of Comanche NewMexico.”
American Anthropological Association, November 18-22, 2015, Denver, CO.
“Nomadology: An Archaeology of Nomadism in Spanish New Mexico.”University of Arizona,
Department of Anthropology, September 2015, Tucson, AZ.
“From Consultation to Collaboration: Expanding the Scope of Archaeology’s Engagement with
Indigenous People.” (with Joseph Aguilar). Society for American Archaeology, April 15-19,
2015, San Francisco, CA.
“YndiosBarbéros: Comanches as Barbarians and Conquistadores.” Theoretical Archaeology
Group, May 23-25,2014, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
“The Problems and Potential of Nomadic Archaeology in the American Southwest.” Society for
American Archaeology, April 22-27, 2014, Austin, TX.
“Equestrian Nomads of the Northern Rio Grande.” Rocky Mountain Archaeological
Conference, September 26-29, 2013,Taos, NM.
“Nomadic Archaeology and the Making of Colonial New Mexico.” Stanford Archaeology Center Lecture Series, May 2012, Stanford, CA.
“Tuhuya (the horse): Re-thinking the Role of Non-human Actors in the Evolution of a ‘Plains’
Tradition.” (with Severin Fowles and Jimmy Arterberry). Society of American Archaeology,
April 16-22, 2013, Memphis, TN.
“Looking Beyond Theory: How to Practice ‘Indigenous Archaeology’ in the Real World.” (with
Tim Wilcox). Society of American Archaeology, April 16-22, 2012, Memphis, TN.
“Tuhuya (the horse): Rethinking Eighteenth Century Equestrianism on the American Plains.”
First Annual Graduate Student Conference on the North American West, February 2012,
Stanford, CA.
“Hippies as Indians and Artifacts.” Theoretical Archaeology Group USA, May 6-8, 2011,
Berkeley, CA.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Persistence: A Comanche History of Eighteenth Century New Mexico” Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, November 20, 2017, Tucson, Arizona.
“We Take Our Place With Us: Ute and Comanche Archaeology in New Mexico”Southwest Seminars, October 2, 2017, Santa Fe, new Mexico.
“ Nomads in the Tribal Zone: Conflict & Compromise in 18th century New Mexico” Sunday Tea and Archaeology, Archaeology Southwest, April 23, 2017, Tucson, Arizona.
“Tribalizing and Indigenous Archaeology: New Methodologies.” School For Advanced Research, April 5, 2017, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Archaeology Café, Archaeology Southwest, March 7, 2017, Tucson, Arizona.
“Comanches and Genizaros in Taos.” SMU-UNM Fall 2016 Lecture Series, October 6, Taos,
NM.
“Becoming Numunu: Horses and Comanche Ethnogenesis in Northern New Mexico.” Stanford Humanities Center Geballe Research Workshop, October 2014, Stanford, CA.
“Bags, Beads, and Horses: Plains Material Culture at the DMNS.” Denver Museum of Nature
and Science, August 2014, Denver, CO.
“YndiosBarbéros: Nomadic Archaeologies of Colonial New Mexico.” Dixon Community
Center Lecture Series, July 2014, Dixon, NM.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
SBSRI Faculty Grant, University of Arizona 2017
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science 2015-16
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford 2014-15
National Science Foundation Research Grant (Co-PI) 2014-16
Denver Museum of Nature and Science Research Fellowship 2014
Developing Diversity Research Opportunity Research Grant, Stanford 2014
Graduate Research Opportunity Research Grant, Stanford 2013
Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Field Research Grant 2013
National Geographic Waitt Foundation Field Research Grant 2012
TEACHING
University of Arizona
Introduction to Archaeological Theoryfall 2017Instructor of Record
University of Arizona
Fight the Powerfall 2017Instructor of Record
University of Arizona
Patterns in Prehistoryspring 2017Instructor of Record
University of Arizona
Method and Ethics in Archaeologyspring 2017Instructor of Record
University of Arizona
Nomads: A Life on the Movefall 2016Instructor of Record
SERVICE & OUTREACH
Director of the Southwest Lands, Culture, and Society program, University of Arizona
Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis (CfAS) Review Committee, 2017-2018
Outreach Committee, University of Arizona, 2016-present
SAA-Amerind Seminar Selection Committee, 2017-2018
Student Member-at-Large (elected), American Anthropological Association, 2014-2016
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Anthropological Association
Society for American Archaeology
Society for Historical Archaeology
Curriculum Vitae ■ L.M. Montgomery