RANDALL H. McGUIRE

Photo by Ruth M. Van Dyke

Email: rmcguire@binghamton.edu

(PhD University of Arizona 1982), Professor of Anthropology, is an archaeologist whose principal interests lie in the development of power relations in the past. He has carried out most of his field work in the US Southwest, and currently is conducting a long-term field project in northwest Mexico. He has also done historical archaeology and oral history research in the northeastern U.S. He currently has a project investigating the 1913-1914 coal strike in southern Colorado. In addition to historical archaeology, history and ethnology, his interests include quantitative methods, social theory, cultural resource management, and archaeomagnetic dating.

1992 A Marxist Archaeology. Academic Press, Orlando

1996 (with Dean Saitta) Although they have petty captains they obey them badly: The dialectics of prehispanic western Pueblo social organization. American Antiquity 61(2): 197-216.

1999 (with Mark Walker) Class confrontations in archaeology. Historical Archaeology 33(1):159-183.

2003 Building a Working Class Archaeology: The Colorado Coal Field War Project. Industrial Archaeology Review 25(2): 83–95 (with P. Reckner).

2008 Archaeology as Political Action. University of California Press, Berkeley.

On Sabbatical for 2007-2008 Academic Year

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