Ruth M. Van Dyke
Ruth M. Van Dyke is an American archaeologist and anthropologist . Her archaeological research interests include Native American cultural traditions of the southwestern United States, particularly the Chaco Canyon culture and migration in 19th century Europe and Texas.
Life
Van Dyke studied at the University of Texas at Austin , where he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in anthropology in May 1986 . She then studied at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona , where she received a Master of Arts (MA) in anthropology in December 1988 . At the latter she received a Ph.D. in anthropology with the dissertation The Chaco Connection: Bonito Style Architecture in Outlier Communities .
From 1998 to 2001 Van Dyke was Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at California State University in Fullerton . She then worked at the Department of Anthropology at Colorado College in Colorado Springs , from 2001 to 2007 as Assistant Professor and from 2007 to 2008 as Associate Professor. Since 2008 she has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University .
She is married to the archaeologist and anthropologist Randall H. McGuire . Together with her husband, Van Dyke supports the organization No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes, which supports illegal cross-border commuters on the US-American-Mexican border with water containers, and takes care of deportation detainees in Nogales , Sonora.
Van Dyke is a member of the American Anthropological Association , the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society , and the Society for American Archeology .
Publications (selection)
- Ruth M. Van Dyke, Susan E. Alcock [Eds.]: Archaeologies of Memory. (2003, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford and Malden, Mass)
- Ruth M. Van Dyke: The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place. (2007, School of Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe)
- Robert Powers, Ruth M. Van Dyke [Eds.]: An Archaeological Survey of the Additions to Chaco Culture National Historic Park. (2012, Chaco Center Publications in Archeology, National Park Service, Santa Fe. Electronic publication, Chaco Research Archive)
- Ruth M. Van Dyke, Reinhard Bernbeck [Eds.]: Imagined Subjects: Alternative Narratives in Archeology. (2015, University Press of Colorado, Boulder)
- Ruth M. Van Dyke [Ed.]: Practicing Materiality (2015, University of Arizona Press)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Dyke, Ruth M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American archaeologist and anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |