Faculty Experts- Anthropology
Name: Mario Montano (Academic Chair 2009-10)
Title: Associate Professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6824
Education: B.A., St. Edwards University; M.A., University of Texas at San Antonio; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Came to CC in: 1992
Courses taught at CC: Cultural Theory, Research Methods, Hispanic Folklore of the Southwest, Intro to Cultural Anthropology, Culture Contact, Anthropology of Food, Rio Grande River
Areas of expertise: Anthropology of food, immigration, Texas-Mexican border issues
Sample topics: Culture and food, immigration on the Texas-Mexican border
Major publications: “Wild Plants of Hispano-Mexican Cuisine of Rio Arriba” in Voces de Agua y Tierra: Cultural and Environmental History of Acequia Farms in Rio Arriba, University of Arizona Press, ed. Ruben Martinez and Devon Pena, (2006);
"The Bean Cookery Complex: History, Language, and Culture,” Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford Press, edited by Deena J. Gonzalez and Suzanne Oboler (2006);
“Quelites, Verdolagas, and Nopales,” Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, Society, edited by Ilan Stavans (2006);
“Tex-Mex Food: The Cultural-Historical Representation of Food,”Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford Press, edited by Deena J. Gonzalez and Suzanne Oboler (2006);
"Appropriation and Counter-hegemony in South Texas: Food Slurs, Offal Meats, and Blood, Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America, edited by Tad Tuleja, State University Press (l997);
"Barbacoa de Cabeza among South Texas Mexicans: A Research Note," The Digest: A Review for the Interdisciplinary Study of Food, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring 1990)
Book Reviews: Review of "Encarnacion’s Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California" by Encarnacion Pinedo, edited and translated by Dan Strehl (Berkeley, University of Californina Press, 2003), Pacific Historical Review, Sept. 2004; "Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption" by Enrique Lamadrid (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003), Journal of Folklore (Spring 2008);
"Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of An Indo-Hispano Homeland" by Miguel Gandert (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000), Journal of American Folklore (2008);
"Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America," edited by Daniel D. Arreola (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004), Journal of American Folklore (fall 2007); "Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America," edited by Douglas Deur and Nancy J. Turner, University of Seattle Press (2005); "Western Folklore Journal" (fall 2007);
Thomas S. Bremer, "Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio," Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press (2004), Journal of American Folklore (fall 2007);
"Curanderismo: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing," by Eliseo “Cheo” Torres with Timothy L. Sawyer, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2005).
Name: Ruth Van Dyke
Title: Assistant professor
Office phone: (719) 389-6362
E-mail: rvandyke@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. (Plan II & Anthropology, with Highest Honors), University of Texas, 1986; M.A. (Anthropology), University of Arizona, Anthropology, 1988; Ph.D. University of Arizona, Anthropology, 1998.
Came to CC: 2001
Courses taught: Introduction to Anthropology; Southwest Archaeology; Field Archaeology; Theory in Archaeology; Archaeologies of Landscape; Archaeology of Pre-Roman Italy
Areas of expertise: The prehistoric North American Southwest, especially Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and surrounding areas; meaning and landscape; social memory; the construction of social power and authority.
Major publications:Memory, Meaning, and Masonry, in America Antiquity (July 2004); "Sacred Geography," in New Light on Chaco Canyon (SAR Press, 2004); Archaeologies of Memory, edited by R. Van Dyke and S. Alcock (Blackwell 2003); "Chacoan Ritual Landscapes," in Great House Communities Across the Chacoan Landscape (University of Arizona Press, 2000); "The Chaco Connection," in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (1999).
Pertinent biographical information: An anthropologically trained archeologist; worked in both academic and cultural resource management archaeology in the American Southwest since 1985, and has been studying Chaco since 1992.
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