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We live in a material world that entails ceaseless and varied

interactions between people, things and landscapes. People may

take that world for granted; yet it shapes our behavior, thought

and being even as our desires and actions transform it. I am an

anthropologist who uses the craft of archaeology to explore the

impact of the material world on the most diverse realms of

human life. My research seeks to understand how objects and

landscapes have joined with human actions, emotions and

relations to make and remake society and culture from ancient

times to the present. This exploration has taken me to

prehispanic Trincheras Tradition ruins in the Sonoran Desert,

to the 1914 Ludlow Massacre on the plains of Colorado, to a 20th

century Yaqui battlefield in Sonora, México, and to the modern

border wall that separates Ambos Nogales. I practice my craft in

a praxis that seeks to know the world, critique the world and

ultimately change the world.