The Community-Based PhD

Sonya Atalay is a professor of anthropology at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has two decades of experience using community-based participatory methods to conduct research in partnership with Indigenous communities. She is the author of Community-Based Archaeology: Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities. Alexandra McCleary is the tribal archaeologist for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Highland, California. She received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley, and her BA at Barnard College, Columbia University.