SHA Newsletter, San Francisco de Nóvita, Colombia

2018

Newletter of the Society for Historical Archaeology, pp. 65-66, 2008

The Review of Higher Education, 2010

I would like to extend my special thanks to the local elders and the group of First Nations and indigenous scholars who came together to plan this wonderful opening event for us. I especially want to thank Sandy Grande who first approached me late last spring about the idea of our working together to have indigenous and First Nations people play a bigger role in ASHE. I hope that this is the start of a long and fruitful collaboration. This is indeed a wonderful way to begin our 34th annual meeting. I fervently thank Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, conference program chair, and Kim Nehls, Executive Director of ASHE, for all of the work that they have done to make this conference happen. I remember that, when Estela Bensimon called me to tell me that I had been elected president of ASHE, her words of wisdom to me were that the most important decision I would make as president was who my program chair would be. If my choice of chair is any indicator of my success as president, then I have done an amazing job. Thanks to Karen for the incredible job she has done in planning this conference. This has been an especially challenging year for our organization with the move from Michigan State University to the University of Nevada-Las