BRIAN D. HALEY
March 2006
1997 Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ph.D. Dissertation: Newcomers in a Small Town: Change and Ethnicity in Rural California.
1987 M.A., Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
1979 B.A. with honors, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Political economy and identity, Globalization, Ethnic relations, Ethnogenesis, Industrial agriculture and community, Mexican immigration, Indigenization, Applied anthropology, Heritage management, Southwest Borderlands
Present Chair, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta.
2000-pres. Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta.
2004-05 Chair, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta.
Fall 2003 Acting Chair, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York College at Oneonta (Appointed Chair, commencing January 2004).
1999-00 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside.
1999-00 Assistant Research Anthropologist, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, Universitywide Headquarters, Riverside, California (UC MEXUS).
1998-99 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Riverside.
1998-99 Postdoctoral Research Anthropologist, UC MEXUS, Riverside, California.
1988-97 Senior Research Anthropologist, Wilcoxon Consultants, Goleta, California (on leave 1990).
1996 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, UCSB.
1995 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, UCSB.
1992-95 Research Assistant, Chicano/Mexican Rural Communities Project, J.V. Palerm, director, Center for Chicano Studies, UCSB.
1988 Instructor, Department of Anthropology, UCSB.
1988 Staff Archaeologist and Ethnohistorian, Dames & Moore, Goleta, California.
1984-88 Research Assistant, Transformation of Rural California Project, J.V. Palerm, director, Center for Chicano Studies, UCSB.
1983-85 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, UCSB.
1980-83 Field Crew Chief (summers), Black Mesa Archaeological Project, Arizona, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
1978-84 Staff Archaeologist, various agencies and firms in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
1988-2004 Ethnographic and ethnohistorical research (intermittent) on neo-Chumash identity and traditionalism.
1993-95 Community development investigations in Santa Paula, Guadalupe, and Shandon, California.
1989-91 Ethnographic research for dissertation on vineyard development, Mexican immigration, rural community change, and ethnic relations in Shandon, California.
1984-88 Ethnographic research on economic restructuring associated with vineyard and winery development in Santa Barbara County, California.
1980-83 Archaeological and oral history research on the settlement history and economy of the Black Mesa Navajo, Arizona (summers).
1978-89 Archaeological research in various CRM projects, California, Arizona, Nevada.
1978 Archaeological field school, Tikal, Guatemala.
2001 SUNY College at Oneonta Faculty/Professional Staff Research Grant
1998-00 UC Merced Outreach Series Grant, UC Office of the President (with J.V. Palerm and A.G. Wood, UC MEXUS)
1998-00 Postdoctoral fellowship, UC MEXUS
1993 UC MEXUS Research Grant (with J.V. Palerm)
1991 Andrew Isbell Memorial Fund Grant, Department of Anthropology, UCSB
1991 General Affiliates Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB
1989-90 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Rural Policy Fellowship
1987 Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, UCSB
1986 Graduate Patent Award, UCSB
1986 Regents Fellowship, UCSB
1979 Graduation Honors, UCSB
2005 Haley, B.D. The Case of the Three Baltazars: Indigenization and the Vicissitudes of the Written Word. Southern California Quarterly 87(4):397-410.
2005 Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon. How Spaniards became Chumash, and other tales of ethnogenesis. American Anthropologist 107(3):432-445.
2002 Haley, B.D. Going Deeper: Chumash identity, scholars, and spaceports in Radic’ and elsewhere. Acta Americana 10(1):113-123.
1999 Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon. Point Conception and the Chumash Land of the Dead: Revisions from Harrington’s notes. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 21(2):213-235.
1999 Haley, B.D. The culture of indigenous rights activism and David Stoll’s ‘Rigoberta Menchú.’ Human Rights Review 1(1):91-98.
1998 Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon. Reply in CA Forum on Anthropology in Public: The Making of Chumash Tradition: Replies to Haley and Wilcoxon. Current Anthropology 39(4):477-510.
1997 Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon. Anthropology and the Making of Chumash Tradition. Current Anthropology 38(5):761-794.
2004* Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon. Ethnohistoric Context. In W.R. Hildebrand, editor, Xonxon’ata, The Tall Oaks: Archaeology and Ethnohistory of a Chumash Village in the Santa Ynez Valley, California, pp. 7-13. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Contributions in Anthropology 2.
1999 Haley, B.D. Indigenous Politics, the New Primitivism, and Responsible Research. UC MEXUS News 35, Winter 1999.
1997* Haley, B.D. Shandon: A Housing Backlash and Redistribution of the Working Poor. In Poverty Amidst Prosperity: Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California. Edited by Taylor, J.E., P.L. Martin, and M. Fix, pp. 55-57. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
1997* Haley, B.D. ‘We want our town back!’: Housing discrimination as exclusion. Center for Chicano Studies Working Papers, Chicano/Latino Working Poor Project (C. Gutiérrez-Jones, series editor). Santa Barbara: University of California.
1994 Haley, B.D. An Evaluation of Chumash Concerns Regarding the Proposed California Commercial Spaceport at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California with Special Attention to the Western Gate. Report prepared for California Commercial Spaceport, Inc. Goleta, CA: Larry R. Wilcoxon Archaeological Consultants.
1994 Haley, B.D. Heterogeneity in Rural California and the Example of Shandon. Charleston, WV: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools.
1989* Haley, B.D. Aspects and social impacts of size and organization in the recently developed wine industry of Santa Barbara County, California. Center for Chicano Studies Working Papers 2. University of California, Santa Barbara.
1985 Haley, B.D. and M.R. Peek. Navajo Sites Investigated in Mining Area IV. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Christenson, A.L. and W.J. Perry, pp. 285-299. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1984 Haley, B.D. and R.J. Dunlavey. Navajo Sites Investigated in the N-9 Mining Area. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Nichols, D.L. and F.E. Smiley, pp. 437-441. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1984 Haley, B.D. Navajo Sites Investigated in the N-11 Mining Area. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Nichols, D.L. and F.E. Smiley, pp. 443-445. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1984 Haley, B.D. and B.M. Estes. Navajo Sites Investigated in the J-8 Mining Area. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Nichols, D.L. and F.E. Smiley, pp. 469-477. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1984 Dunlavey, R.J. and B.D. Haley. Navajo Sites Investigated in the J-9 Mining Area. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1982: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Nichols, D.L. and F.E. Smiley, pp. 479-481. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1983 Haley, B.D., T.R. Rocek, B. Blomberg, and D. Andrews. Ethnoarchaeological Research and Historical Excavations on Black Mesa, 1981. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1981: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Smiley, F.E., et al., pp. 283-299. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1982 DeMarcay, G., B.D. Haley, and L. Anderson. Arizona D: 7: 109. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1980: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Andrews, P.P., et al., pp. 55-64. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1982 DeMarcay, G., B.D. Haley, and D. Swain. Arizona D: 7: 263. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1980: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Andrews, P.P., et al., pp. 109-114. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1982 Haley, B.D. and B. Blomberg. Arizona D: 7: 4008. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1980: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Andrews, P.P., et al., pp. 201-204. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
1982 Haley, B.D. and B. Blomberg. Arizona D: 7: 4035. In Excavations on Black Mesa, 1980: A Descriptive Report. Edited by Andrews, P.P., et al., pp. 213-215. Carbondale: Center for Archaeological Investigations.
2005 Haley, B.D. Review of Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico, by Alexander S. Dawson. American Anthropologist 107(4):723-724.
2004 Haley, B.D. Review of Places that count: traditional cultural properties in cultural resource management, by Thomas F. King. Southeastern Archaeology 23(2):226-228.
2003 Haley, B.D. Reply to Radic' II. Acta Americana 11(1): 73-74.
2003 Haley, B.D. Liberal or Cultural: A Comment. American Anthropologist 105(2):476-477.
2002 Haley, B.D. Review of Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans, by Martha Menchaca. American Ethnologist 29(4):1014-1016.
2002 Haley, B.D. Review of Postcolonial America, edited by C. Richard King. American Ethnologist 29(3):755-756.
2000 Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon. On ‘Complicities and Collaborations.’ Current Anthropology 41(2):272-273.
2000 Haley, B.D. Review of Bear’s Hiding Place: Ishi’s Last Refuge, produced by Jed Riffe (17 min., 1998). American Anthropologist 102(3):602-604.
1999 Haley, B.D. Comment on ‘Debating Self, Identity and Culture in Anthropology,’ by Martin Sökefeld. Current Anthropology 40(4): 436-437.
1995 Haley, B.D. Review of The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico by Andrew L. Knaut, and Rio del Norte: People of the Upper Rio Grande from Earliest Times to the Pueblo Revolt by Carroll L. Riley. Western Historical Quarterly 27(1):88-89.
In press Haley, B.D. The Ethics of Challenging Indigenes. Papers of the SUNY College at Oneonta Faculty Convivium Lecture Series.
2005 Session Chair, State University of New York Conversations in the Disciplines Language & Globalization Conference, SUNY College at Oneonta, October 28, 2005.
2005 Panel Discussant, Borders and Boundaries in the Age of Globalization, SUNY College at Oneonta, April 11, 2005.
2004 “Ethnogenesis among immigrants from Mexico.” Paper presented in the panel Identities in the Age of Globalization, SUNY College at Oneonta, September 30, 2004.
2003 “Ethnogenesis and Primacy in California and the U.S. Southwest.” Invited paper presented at the International Colloquium on Mobility and the Construction of Territories of Multiculturality, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, March 31, 2003.
2003 “Normalizing Neo-Chumash Ethnogenesis.” Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Faculty Research Show, SUNY College at Oneonta, Tuesday, March 19, 2003, by B.D. Haley and L.R. Wilcoxon.
2002 “Normalizing Neo-Chumash Ethnogenesis.” Poster presented at the 101st Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 22, 2002, by B.D. Haley and L.R. Wilcoxon.
2002 “How Spaniards became Chumash, and other tales of ethnogenesis. Paper presented in the Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, October 30, 2002.
2002 “How Spaniards Became Neo-Chumash.” Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Faculty Research Show, SUNY College at Oneonta, Tuesday, March 19, 2002.
2002 “Normalizing Neo-Chumash Ethnogenesis.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, January 7, 2002.
2001 “The Ethics of Challenging Indigenes.” SUNY College at Oneonta Faculty Convivium Series Lecture, November 1, 2001, SUNY College at Oneonta.
2001 “How Spaniards became Chumash (Indians), and other tales of ethnogenesis.” Center for Social Science Research, SUNY College at Oneonta, March 21, 2001.
2000 “Mexicanization and Rural Community in California.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, SUNY College at Oneonta, February 24, 2000.
2000 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Recent Issues of Anthropological Praxis in California.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, February 16, 2000.
2000 “Romancing the Indigene: Ruminations on Anthropology and Primitivism.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, February 9, 2000.
2000 “The Predicament of Tradition: An Anthropological Perspective on Traditional Cultural Properties.” Invited paper presented at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation FY2000 Cultural Resource Management Conference, Salt Lake City, February 8, 2000.
1999 “Mexicanization and Community in Rural California.” Paper presented at the Human & Community Development Department, University of California, Davis, September 9, 1999.
1999 “The Value of Community Ethnography.” Paper presented at the UC MEXUS/UC Merced Outreach Workshop, Merced, California, August 30, 1999.
1999 “Mexicans, Farmwork, and Respect in a Rural California Community: Implications for theories of rural social structure, community, and identity.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, June 22, 1999.
1997 “Immigrants, Farm Work, and Respect in a Rural California Town.” Paper presented at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Mississippi State University, March 31, 1997.
1996 “Law, Anthropological Practice, and Chumash Tradition.” Paper presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 24, 1996, by Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon.
1996 “Anthropology and the Making of Chumash Tradition.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, UCSB, April 24, 1996, by Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon.
1996 “The Implications of Revision: Point Conception’s Sacredness Revisited.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for California Archaeology, Riverside, California, April 4, 1996, by Haley, B.D. and L.R. Wilcoxon.
1995 “Farm Workers, Ethnicity, and Housing: Rural California’s Housing Discrimination as an Ethnic Process Which Redistributes the Rural Working Poor.” Invited paper presented at a special conference on Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural California, Monterey, California, June 13, 1995.
1995 “Immigration and Discrimination in a Rural California Town.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, UCSB, June 7, 1995.
1994 “Slamming the Western Gate: When tradition isn’t traditional in the environmental review process.” Paper presented at the Department of Anthropology, UCSB, November 2, 1994.
1994 “Heterogeneity in Rural California and the Example of Shandon.” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Rural Sociological Society, Portland, Oregon, August 11-14, 1994.
1993 “Research in Shandon, California.” Paper presented to the Working Group for Rural Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 20-23, 1993.
1989 “What happens when low income Mexican farm workers join a small town of Anglo middle class farmers and ranchers?” Invited paper presented at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Rural Policy Colloquium, Princeton, New Jersey, October 25-27, 1989.
Undergraduate courses:
UC Santa Barbara: Comparative Ethnicity
Agriculture and Rural Society in Mexico
UC Riverside: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Political Anthropology
Agriculture and Rural Society in Mexico
SUNY Oneonta: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
World Cultures
North American Indians
Mesoamerica: Past and Present
Applied Anthropology
Cultural Identities
Globalization & Culture
Critique of Civilization
Issues in Anthropology
Graduate courses:
UC Riverside: Primitivism and Anthropology
Agriculture and Society in California and the U.S.
Globalization and Transnationalism
2003-pres. Council of Chairs, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
2003-2005 Curriculum Committee, State University of New York College at Oneonta
2002-2003 International Studies Advisory Task Force, State University of New York College at Oneonta
2001-pres. Center for Social Science Research Steering Committee, State University of New York College at Oneonta
2001-pres. Faculty advisor, Anthropology Club, Anthropology Department, State University of New York College at Oneonta
2001-2002 Library Committee, State University of New York College at Oneonta
2000-2001 College Senate, State University of New York College at Oneonta
2000 UC MEXUS Grant Review Committee for the Social Sciences
1999 Committee member, UC Merced Humanities and Social Sciences Grant and Curriculum Planning, University of California Office of the President.
1998-00 Coordinator, UC MEXUS/UC Merced Outreach Series.
1998-99 Co-coordinator, UC MEXUS Distinguished Speaker Series.
1995 Compiled statistics used for external review, Department of Anthropology, UCSB.
1986 Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, UCSB.
American Anthropological Association
Society for the Anthropology of North America
AAA Culture and Agriculture Section
Society for Applied Anthropology
SfAA Food & Agriculture Interest Group
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
American Anthropologist
Current Anthropology
Human Organization
Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
McGraw-Hill/Dushkin