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Thomas E. Sheridan

Professor, Southwest Center 

PhD, Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1983

Office: Little Chapel of All Nations [Map]
Phone: (520) 621-5088
Email: tes@email.arizona.edu

 

Thomas Sheridan is the curator of ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum. His research interests include contemporary ranching and rural development and the political ecology of ranching in the Southwest. His work involves documentary history and ethnographic studies, with projects focusing on a farming community in northwestern Mexico, Arizona history, the Mexican community in Tucson, the northern and southern frontiers of the Spanish empire in the Americas, and the Seri Indians.