| Jonathan Haas |
Field Museum, 1400 S. Lakeshore Dr., Chicago, IL 60605,
(312)665-7829
Email: jhaas@fieldmuseum.org |
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| Education |
1979 |
Ph.D., Columbia University, Anthropology |
| 1976 |
MPhil, Columbia University, Anthropology |
| 1974 |
M.A., Columbia University, Anthropology |
| 1970 |
B.A., University of Arizona, Anthropology |
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| Professional Employment |
| 1994-Pres |
MacArthur Curator of the Americas |
| 1989-1994 |
Vice President, Collections and Research, and Vice President for Museum Affairs, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL |
| 1995-Pres |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1999-Pres |
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
| 1984-1989 |
Director of Programs and Research, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1979-1984 |
Assistant Professor, University of Denver, Denver, CO |
| 1967-1979 |
Various teaching and research positions in archaeology and anthropology |
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| Field Experience |
Thirty-three years of anthropological field work, primarily in the southwestern United States and Andean South America. Haas has active research interests in northeastern Arizona, the northern Rio Grande region in New Mexico and the emergence of complex polities on the coast of Peru |
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| Selected Publications |
Books |
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| 1982 |
The Evolution of the Prehistoric State. Columbia
University Press. (Translated into Korean and
published in Korea in 1989) |
| 1987 |
The Origin and Development of the Andean State. Co-editor with Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2001 |
From Leaders to Rulers, ed. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. |
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| Articles |
| 1981 |
Class Conflict and the State in the New World. In The Transition to Statehood in the New World: Toward a Synthesis, edited by Grant D. Jones and Robert Kautz. Cambridge University Press, New York. |
| 1985 |
Excavations on Huaca Grande: An Initial View of the Elite of Pampa Grande on the North Coast of Peru. Journal of Field Archaeology, 12:391-409. |
| 1987 |
The Exercise of Power in Early Andean State Development. In The Origin and Development of the Andean State, edited by Jonathan Haas, Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York. |
| 1996 |
The Roads to Statehood. In Alternative Pathways to Early State edited by Nikolay N. Kradin and Valeria Al Lynsha, Dalnauka, Vladivostok. (Published in English and Russian versions.) |
| 1996 |
Theories of the Origins of States. In Oxford Companion for Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan. Oxford University Press, Oxford. |
| 1998 |
A Brief Consideration of Cultural Evolution: Stages, Agents and Tinkering. Complexity 3(3): 12-21. |
| 1999 |
The Origins of War and Ethnic Violence. In Ancient Warfare: Archaeological Perspectives, edited by John Carman and Anthony Harding. Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, England. |
| 2001 |
Warfare and the Evolution of Culture. In Archaeology at the Millennium: A Sourcebook, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary Feinman, pp. 329-350. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. |
| 2001 |
Dating Caral, a Preceramic Urban Center in the Supe Valley on the Central Coast of Peru, with Ruth Shady and Winifred Creamer. Science 292:723-726. |
| 2001 |
Cultural Evolution and Political Centralization. In From Leaders to Rulers, edited by Jonathan Haas, pp. 3-18. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. |
2001 |
Amplifying Importance of New Research in Peru. Response, with Winifred Creamer. Science 294:1652-1653. |
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| Other Recent Professional Activities |
| 2001 |
Registered with the Registro Nacional de Arqueólogos Profesionales of Peru |
| 1996-pres |
Advisory Board, Human Relations Area Files Prehistory Database |
| 1992-1997 |
Review Committee for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act |
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| Recent NSF Grants |
| 1990 |
Recordation of Human Skeletal Remains Conference. National Science Foundation. $13,180. |
| 1992 |
Support for the Primate Facility at Field Museum of Natural History. National Science Foundation, Co-PI with Bruce Patterson and Jack Fooden. $25,537.
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| 1997-1999 |
Cataloging and Computerizing the Paul S. Martin Collection of Archaeological Materials at The Field Museum. National Science Foundation. $172,919.
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