Students

Becks, Fanya

Fanya received her BA in Anthropology with a minor in Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is interested in integrating the perspectives of Native American Studies into her Archaeological research. Research interests most pertinent to Fanya include Native American Heritage and Archaeology, the formation and legitimization of identity, intellectual property issues of indigenous peoples, and the uses of space in archaeological contexts. Her undergraduate research has centered on shell bead and lithic production at Coast Miwok and Muwekma Ohlone sites in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. As a Stanford PhD student Fanya plans to pursue collaborative and Community Based Participatory Research projects with Native Californian Peoples.

Montgomery, Lindsay

Lindsay received her BA in Anthropology and Human Rights from Columbia University. Her research interests include Native American cultural heritage, ethics, environmental justice, and the politics of identity. As a PhD student on the archaeology track, Lindsay plans to pursue an integrated approach to the anthropological engagement with Native American material culture, particularly in the Southwest United States. Specifically, she hopes to work with Native people on a politically and socially relevant level by applying Native American law and political ecology to archeology.

Wilcox, Tim

Tim looks at the proto-historic period (1500-1750) of the Navajo or Dine’, an Athabaskan tribe of the Four Corners area. Specifically, the area in the San Juan River Valley known as Dinetah or the Navajo homeland. The period is characterized proliferation Navajo material culture in the Dinetah region. Prior to this period, the distinctions between Navajo and Apache tribes, both Athabaskan speaking tribes, were less distinct. How did the two tribes become distinct and how did their interactions with Puebloan people, other Native groups and newly arrived Spanish colonists shape their identity.