Researchers

Suzanne Fish University of Arizona (Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Arid Lands Resource Sciences; M.A. in Anthropology) Professor Emerita, School of Anthropology and Curator Emerita, Arizona State Museum; longstanding member Arid Lands Resource Sciences Executive Committee. Disciplinary roles: Editor, Latin American Antiquity; Editorial Boards of American Anthropologist and The Kiva; Board of Directors, Society for American Archaeology and Society of Ethnobiology. With Paul Fish and other major collaborators, she has designed and directed projects addressing Hohokam settlement patterns and social organization. Borderlands agricultural strategies, specialized trincheras hill occupations, and, especially, former largescale Sonoran Desert cultivation of agave. Regional studies and publications emphasized the southern U.S. Southwest, Mexican Northwest, Central Mexican Highlands, and southern coastal Brazil, but also the Levant and U.S. Southeast. Applications of archaeological palynology, human modifications of the environment, agroecology, archaeological settlement patterns, and developmental trajectories of pre-Hispanic societies are also frequent analytical topics.