Thomas E. Sheridan
Office: Little Chapel Phone: 520-621-5088
Tom Sheridan
Email:
 tes@email.arizona.edu
Degree:
 Ph D. University of Arizona, 1983
Affiliation:

Research Anthropologist, Southwest Studies Center
Professor, Department of Anthropology

Interests:
 Cultural Anthropology, Ethnohistory, Political Ecology, Environmental Anthropology, Peasant Studies, Peoples of Mexico, Ethnology of the Southwest and Northern Mexico
Classes:

ANTH/LAS 418/518 Southwest Land and Society
ANTH/AIS/LAS 423/523 Anthropology of Rural Mexico
ANTH 696B  Anthropology and History

Current Research:

 Ranching and real estate development in Arizona; Hopi Documentary History Project

 

Recent Major Publications:

2001

Cows, Condos, and the Contested Commons: The Political Ecology of Public-Lands Ranching in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands. Human Organization 60(2):141-152.
2000

Human Ecology of the Sonoran Desert. In A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, edited by Steven J. Phillips and Patricia Wentworth Comus, pp. 105-117. Tucson : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press.
1999

Empire of Sand: The Seri Indians and the Struggle for Spanish Sonora, 1645-1803. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
1998

(co-edited with Donna Guy) Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire in America. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

1997 (co-edited with Charles Polzer) The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: A Documentary History, Volume Two, Part I: The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora, 1700-1765. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
1995 Arizona: A History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
1988 Where the Dove Calls: the Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
1986

Los Tucsoñenses: The Mexican Community of Tucson 1854-1941. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (Reprinted 1997).

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