Dr. Colwell-Chanthaphonh received his PhD and MA degrees from Indiana University and his BA from the University of Arizona. Before coming to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, he held fellowships with the Center for Desert Archaeology and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Focusing principally on Native American communities in the American Southwest, Dr. Colwell-Chanthaphonh has undertaken a range of studies to examine the role of history—and objects that embody history—in politics, science, landscapes, museums, and heritage sites. He has published more than two dozen articles and book chapters, and has authored and edited five books including History is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley (with T. J. Ferguson, University of Arizona Press) which received Honorable Mention in the 2007 Victor Turner Prize juried book competition. He also sits on the editorial board of the American Anthropologist.
Current Projects
Recent Publications
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, C. 2007. Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, C. 2007. History, Justice, and Reconciliation. In Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement, edited by Barbara J. Little and Paul A. Shackel, pp. 23-46. AltaMira Press, Lanham.
Ferguson, T. J., and C. Colwell-Chanthaphonh. 2006. History Is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, C., and T. J. Ferguson. 2006. Memory Pieces and Footprints: Multivocality and the Meanings of Ancient Times and Ancestral Places among the Zuni and Hopi. American Anthropologist 108(1):148-162.
Colwell-Chanthaphonh, C. 2006. Dreams at the Edge of the World and Other Evocations of O’odham History. Archaeologies 2(1):20-44.
