Barbara Mills

Barbara Mills is Regents Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, a member of the American Indian Studies Interdisciplinary Program, and Curator of Archaeology at the Arizona State Museum. She was the Founding Director of the School of Anthropology and Director of the University of Arizona’s Archaeological Field School at Pinedale. She has conducted archaeological research throughout the U.S. Southwest—especially on Ancestral Pueblo societies in the Zuni, Chaco, and Mogollon Rim areas—as well as in Guatemala, Kazakhstan, and Turkey. Her research interests include ancient migrations, social networks in the past, ceramic analysis, and the archaeology of inequality. She is currently directing the Southwest Social Networks Project at the University of Arizona, which has been supported by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation. She is the author or editor of ten books, including The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Southwest, and over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.