Faculty Anthropology
Beth O'Leary, Ph.D.
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1985, Associate Professor
Dr. O’Leary’s areas of interest
include both cultural anthropology and archeology. She has done research
on Athapaskan cultures in Canada and the U.S. She also has 25 years
of experience in cultural resource management in New Mexico and west
Texas. She is also a published fiction
writer.
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Current Research
Dr. O’Leary is an Assistant College Professor of Anthropology. She is currently working on a NASA-funded project to make the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon Landing a National Historic Landmark. This will be a first for doing cultural resource management in space. For more information on this project, go to the Lunar Legacies site. Her most recent keynote address was at the ICOMOS 2007 Conference on Extreme Heritage in Cairns, Australia (see Discovery Channel article). Dr. O'Leary's other recent article on space heritage can be accessed in Antiquity at http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/oleary/index.html. Dr. O'Leary is also currently working on an oral history of Marge Jackson, a Southern Tutchone First Nations elder in the Yukon Territory, Canada.