SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
VOICES FROM THE PAST 2012

A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
OFFERED TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK OF THE NEW MEXICO HISTORY MUSEUMMONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE

May 28 Dr. Richard Melzer
New Mexico Centennial Lecture, Professor of History, University of New Mexico-Valencia and Author, New Mexico: Celebrating the Land of Enchantment;Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest; Ernie Pyle in the American Southwest; Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb Was Stolen; Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The CivilianConservation Corps in New Mexico; Buried Treasures; Sunshine and Shadows in New Mexico’s Past
Writing New Mexico’s Constitution for Statehood, 1910

June 4 Dr. Margaret C. Nelson
Vice-Dean, Honors College, Anthropologist and Archaeologist
President’s Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University and Co-Author (with G. Schachner) ‘Understanding Abandonments in the
North American Southwest’ in Journal of Archaeological Research; Author, ‘The Archaeology and
Meaning of Mimbres’ in Archaeology Southwest; Mimbres Lives and Landscapes. (w/ M. Hegmon)
Mimbres (Mogollon) Culture: Continuity and Change

June 11 Dr. Dan Flores
Professor of History and A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History, University of Montana; Editor,
Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration; Author, Counterpart to Lewis and Clark: The Freeman
and Custis Expedition of 1806; Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest;
The Natural West: Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains;
Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into the Heart of the Southern Plains.
Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: Horse Trade & Early American West, 1780-1825

June 18 Dr. Jon Hunner, Professor and Chair, Department of History
New Mexico State University and Director, Public History Project and Author, Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of an Atomic Community; J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Cold War, and The Atomic West; The Mesilla Valley: An Oasis in
the Desert. (New Mexico Centennial Series).With Harley Hunner, Returned African Peace Corps Volunteer
Cruising the West African Cameroons

June 25 Kathy Flynn
Executive Director, New Deal Preservation Association, Co-Author (with Richard Polese), The New Deal: A 75th Anniversary;
and former New Mexico Deputy Secretary of State
Touched By the New Deal

July 2 Vaughn Hadenfeldt
Backcountry Expedition Guide and Founder, Far Out Expeditions, Bluff, Utah
Cedar Mesa, Grand Gulch Plateau and Beyond

July 9 Dr. Severin M. Fowles
Assistant of Anthropology , Barnard College, Columbia University Author, “The Southwest School of Landscape Archaeology” (Annual Review of Anthropology,2010). Author, An Archaeology of Doing: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion
Comanche Archaeology and the Making of Colonial New Mexico

July 16 Greg MacGregor
Professor Emeritus of Photography , University of California-East Bay
Photographer and Author, Overland: The California Emigrant Trail of 1842-1870; Lewis and Clark
Revisited, A Photographer’s Trail; Co-Author, (with Siegfried Halus) In Search of Dominguez and
Escalante, Photographing the 1776 Expedition Through the Southwest.
Emigrant Trails West: California, Oregon and Mormon, 1841-1870

July 23 Dr. Paul and Dr. Suzanne Fish
Professors of Anthropology and Emeriti Curators of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum,University of Arizona, Tucson; Co- Editors, Trincheras Sites in Time, Space, & Society (w/M. Elisa Villalpando); The Hohokam Millennium;,
The Ancient Hohokam and West Mexican Interaction

July 30 Robert Shlaer
Historical Photographer and Author, Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Fremont’s Last Expedition Through the Rockies.
Sketching the Rockies: Richard H. Kern and the Gunnison Expedition of 1853

$12 at the Door or $100 for the Series of 10 Lectures