RANDALL H. MCGUIRE
About me
I was born in Fort Collins, Colorado and raised on Air Force Bases across the west. My mother taught me to love books, learning and history. My grandfather never understood why I wanted to be an archaeologist. He worked for a living in northern Colorado. One afternoon in field school he found me at the bottom of a deep stratigraphic trench, swinging a pick at the face of the ditch. That next summer I got my first paying job at the Arizona State Museum. My grandfather never did share my passion for archaeology. But, he accepted it as honest work that would callous my hands and as a job that would earn me a living. I shared my grandfather’s appreciation of honest work. Archaeology’s joining of intellectual and physical labor attracted me. Classes fulfilled my love of learning and of books. I also appreciated the camaraderie of field work and the physical and emotional feeling of well-being, material accomplishment, and deserved rest after a day of excavation. During the early 1970s, I learned radical politics in the streets and later through praxis; I found a way to practice the craft of archaeology to serve the needs of archaeology’s traditional academic community and to address the interests of working families, Native Americans and undocumented migrants.
It seems to me that it is not difficult to find splendid formulas for life, but it is difficult to live.
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Research Interests
The Material World, Social Theory, Marxism, Class, Praxis, Ideology, Social
Stratification, Archaeology of the Sonoran Desert, Archaeology of the
Contemporary, Indigenous Archaeology, Historical Archaeology,
Southwest/Northwest, U.S. Mexican Border, Labor History, Native America
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1982
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1978
B.A. in Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1974
Attended Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, 1970-1972
High School Diploma, John H. Reagan H.S. Austin, TX, 1970
Professional Positions
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Binghamton University, 2009-Present
Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, 1993-2009
Professor Visitante, Departamento de Antropologia e Arqueologia, Universidade
Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2014
Profesor Visitante, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba, Argentina 2013
Profesor Visitante, Departamento de Prehistoria, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, Spain, 1999 & 2005
Profesor Visitante, Escuela Nacional de Antropología y Historia de INAH,
Mexico City, 2001
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, 1990-1993
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University 1982-1990
The Material World, Social Theory, Marxism, Class, Praxis, Ideology, Social
Stratification, Archaeology of the Sonoran Desert, Archaeology of the
Contemporary, Indigenous Archaeology, Historical Archaeology,
Southwest/Northwest, U.S. Mexican Border, Labor History, Native America
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1982
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1978
B.A. in Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1974
Attended Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, 1970-1972
High School Diploma, John H. Reagan H.S. Austin, TX, 1970
Professional Positions
SUNY Distinguished Professor, Binghamton University, 2009-Present
Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, 1993-2009
Professor Visitante, Departamento de Antropologia e Arqueologia, Universidade
Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2014
Profesor Visitante, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de
Córdoba, Argentina 2013
Profesor Visitante, Departamento de Prehistoria, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona, Spain, 1999 & 2005
Profesor Visitante, Escuela Nacional de Antropología y Historia de INAH,
Mexico City, 2001
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University, 1990-1993
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Binghamton University 1982-1990
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