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Tamara L. Bray is the Director of the Museum of Anthropology and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University. Dr. Bray is a theoretically oriented archaeologist specializing in the study of precolumbian societies of the northern Andes and the Inca empire. Her research focuses on archaic imperialism, Andean-Amazonian linkages, ancient political economy, long-distance exchange, and the politics and place of archaeology in the modern world. Articles based on her work in Ecuador have appeared in World Archaeology and Journal of Field Archaeology. In addition to her work in South America, Dr. Bray also has considerable expertise in North American archaeology, having conducted research at sites spanning the chronological spectrum from paleoindian to the historic period.
Prior to joining the Department, Dr. Bray was with the Smithsonian Institution where she helped to establish the museum's Repatriation Program. She recently published a co-edited volume entitled Reckoning With the Dead, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994), that describes the Museum's landmark Larsen Bay repatriation. Dr. Bray maintains interests in repatriation and other contemporary Native American issues. In recent years she has appeared as an invited speaker at the University of Cauca in Popayan, Colombia, the Smithsonian Institution, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Precolumbian Society of Washington, D.C.
Other staff working at the museum this year:
Allison Muhammad, Christian Vannier, Julian Gay
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