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T. J. Ferguson owns and operates Anthropological Research LLC, a research company in Tucson, Arizona, where he is also a Professor of Practice in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He was educated at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (BA, 1973), the University of Arizona (M.A.in anthropology, 1976) and the University of New Mexico (Masters of Community and Regional Planning, 1986; and Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1993). Dr. Ferguson specializes in archaeological and ethnographic research needed for historic preservation, repatriation, and litigation of land and water rights. His clients include Indian tribes, governmental agencies, and museums. Dr, Ferguson's most recent book, co-authored with Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, is History is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley (2006, University of Arizona Press).Show Less
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Courses
- CRMCultural Resource Management
- FAIFoundations of Archaeological Interpretation
Grants
- Ethnographic Study of the TA-19 Cultural Landscape, Manhattan Project
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$394.5K
Active - Traditional Cultural Landscape Study in the Vicinity of the US/Mexico Border on the Barry M. Goldwater Range West for Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$175.7K
Active - DSCESU: Cooperative Agreement: Traditional Cultural Landscape Study in the Vicinity of the US/Mexico Border on the Barry M. Goldwater Range West for Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Arizona View Text
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$88.7K
Active - Ethnographic Documentation and Interpretation of O'odham Salt Pilgrimages at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$40.1K
- Conduct Ethnographic Overview and Assessment
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$161.4K
- National Register Nomination for the Atsinna and North Atsinna Pueblos
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$132.3K
- Multiple Properties Documentation Form of Grand Canyon as a Traditional Cultural Property
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$76.8K
- Collection of Apache Oral Histories for CHIR and FOBO
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$75.0K
- Component B - 0189606B - Class III Intensive Archeological Survey, Tribal Consultation, and Ethnographic Fieldwork for a Cultural Landscape Inventory (CLI) and National Register Nomination
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$128.9K
- A Cultural Landscape Inventory (UAZDS-438)
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$72.7K
Publications (155)
Recent
- “This Place Belongs to Us”: Historic Contexts as a Mechanism for Multivocality in the National Register
2022
- Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States
2021
- Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume II, 1680–1781
2020
- Tungwnipwpi Nit Wukwlavayi (Named Places and Oral Traditions)
2018
- An archaeological perspective on zuni social history
2018
- Footprints of Hopi history: Hopihiniwtiput kukveni'at
2018
- Footprints of Hopi History
2018
- 8 Zuni and 40 years of CRM
2017
- hopisinmuy wu’ya’mat hisat Yang Tupqa’va Yeesiwngwu (hopi ancestors lived in These Canyons)
2017
- Zuni and 40 years of CRM: a perspective from on and off the reservation
2017
- Traditional Cultural Properties
2017
- Expanding toolkits for heritage perpetuation: The Western Apache ethnography and geographic information science research experience for undergraduates
2016
- Archaeologists as activists, advocates, and expert witnesses
2016
- Always Multivocal and Multivalent: Conceptualizing Archaeological Landscapes in Arizona's San Pedro Valley
2016
- Laguna Sheepherding
2016
- Identification and dating of indigenous water storage reservoirs along the Rio San José at Laguna Pueblo, western New Mexico, USA
2016
- publications include The Galaz Ruin: A Prehistoric Mimbres Village in Southwestern New Mexico (with Steven A. LeBlanc, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 1984), Native Americans …
2016
- Comprehending Hopi Footprints: Hopi History and Traditions at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument
2016
- Diabase temper as a marker for Laguna ceramics
2015
- Co-Creation of Knowledge about the Past by the Hopi Tribe and Archaeologists
2015
- Moquis and Kastiilam: Hopis, Spaniards, and the Trauma of History, Volume I, 1540–1679
2015
- Expanding Toolkits for Heritage Preservation: The Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates.
2015
- Mapping the Hopi Landscape for Cultural Preservation
2015
- Co-creation of knowledge by the Hopi tribe and archaeologists
2015
- Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
2014
- Community-Based Archaeology: Research With, By, and for Indigenous and Local Communities
2014
- Moquis and Kastilam: Coronado and the Hopis
2014
- The Snow-Capped Mountain and the Uranium Mine
2014
- Named Places in a Living Landscape: Recording Toponyms to Document the Endangered Hopi Language
2014
- The snow-capped mountain and the uranium mine: Zuni heritage and the landscape scale in cultural resource management
2014
- Yep hisat hoopoq’yaqam yeesiwa (Hopi ancestors were once here): Repatriation research documenting Hopi cultural affiliation with the ancient Hohokam of southern Arizona
2013
- Moquis and Kastiilam: Coronado and the Hopis
2013
- THE INDIANS OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO: Nineteenth Century Ethnographic Notes of Archbishop John Baptist Salpointe
2012
- Pres.-2007 Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Pres.-2009 Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Denver 2007-2006 Project Director …
2012
- Indigenous methodologies: Characteristics, conversations, and contexts
2011
- Multivocality in multimedia: Collaborative archaeology and the potential of cyberspace
2011
- Whose idea was this? Museums, replicas, and the reproduction of knowledge
2011
- Comment on “Whose Idea Was This” by Gwyneira Issac
2011
- Repatriation at the Smithsonian Institution
2010
- We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom
2010
- Intersecting Magisteria, Bridging Archaeological Science and Traditional Knowledge
2010
- Consultation and collaboration with descendant communities
2010
- Intersecting magisteria: Bridging archaeological science and traditional knowledge
2010
- Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
2010
- The AAA Publications Program: Our Common Property Resource
2010
- Applied and Practicing Anthropology at the 2010 Meeting
2010
- Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History
2010
- Ethnographic Resources in the Grand Canyon Region
2010
- The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology
2010
- AAA Journal Circulation Report
2010
- Repatriation of Ahayu: da: 20 years later
2010
- Commentary: Repatriation of Ahayu:da 20 Years Later
2010
- Archaeological Collaboration with Native Americans in the Western United States
2009
- AAA 2009 EXECUTIVE BOARD
2009
- Archaeological collaboration with American Indians: case studies from the western United States
2009
- 19 Zuni Traditional History and Cultural Geography
2009
- Kukhepya: searching for Hopi trails
2009
- Animate objects: Shell trumpets and ritual networks in the Greater Southwest
2008
- Animate Objects: Shell Trumpets and Ritual Networks in the Greater Sout
2008
- Always Multivocal and Multivalent
2008
- 2007 AAA Honor Roll of Donors
2008
- AAA Contributes Public Comment on New NAGPRA Regulations
2008
- Introduction: The collaborative continuum
2008
- Things Are Not Always What They Seem
2008
- Putting patria back into repatriation: Cultural affiliation assessment of White Mountain Apache tribal lands
2007
- A Misrepresentation of Ancestral Pueblo
2007
- Putting Patria back into Repatriation, Cultural Affiliation Assessment of White Mountain Apache Tribal Lands
2007
- A Space Syntax Analysis of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico Community Formation in the Northern Rio Grande
2007
- Collaboration in archaeological practice: engaging descendant communities
2007
- Final Report: Practicing Advisory Work Group (PAWG)
2006
- Ethics of field research for the Hopi Tribe
2006
- History is in the land: Multivocal tribal traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley
2006
- Trust and archaeological practice: towards a framework of virtue ethics
2006
- Memory pieces and footprints: multivocality and the meanings of ancient times and ancestral places among the Zuni and Hopi
2006
- Rethinking abandonment in archaeological contexts
2006
- Pueblo settlement, architecture, and social change in the Pueblo Revolt era, AD 1680 to 1696
2005
- Natural setting as cultural landscapes: the power of place and tradition
2005
- Handbook of Archaeological Methods
2005
- Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and Nagpra
2005
- Academic, legal, and political contexts of social identity and cultural affiliation research in the Southwest
2004
- Virtue ethics and the practice of history: Native Americans and archaeologists along the San Pedro Valley of Arizona
2004
- Chapter 12. Anthropological Archaeology Conducted by Tribes: Traditional Cultural Properties and Cultural Affiliation
2003
- Conceptualizing Landscapes in the San Pedro Valley of Arizona: American Indian Interpretations of Reeve Ruin and Davis Ruin
2003
- Hisatqatsit Aw Maamatslalwa–Comprehending Our Past Lifeways: Thoughts about a Hopi Archaeology
2003
- Heritage management by American Indian tribes in the Southwestern United States: RA, TJF J RW
2003
- That Place People Talk about: The Petroglyph National Monument Ethnographic Landscape Report
2002
- Hopi perspectives on southwestern mortuary studies
2001
- Öngtuvqava Sakwtala: Hopi Ethnobotany in the Grand Canyon
2001
- Applied Anthropology in the Management of Native American Cultural Resources: Archaeology, Ethnography, and History of Traditional Cultural Places
2000
- Ghost dancing the Grand Canyon
2000
- Heritage management by American Indian tribes in the southwestern United States
2000
- Critique of the claim of cannibalism at Cowboy Wash
2000
- Multiple Views of the Past-Integrating Archeology and Ethnography in the Jeddito Valley
2000
- Anasazi Architecture and American Design. Baker H. Morrow and VB Price, editors. 1997. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, xviii+ 241 pp., 49 illustrations, references …
1999
- Hopi dwellings: Architecture at Orayvi.
1999
- Hoopoq'yaqam niqw Wukoskyavi (Those Who Went to the Northeast and Tonto Basin): Hopi-Salado Cultural Affiliation Study
1999
- Preservation and research of sacred sites by the Zuni Indian tribe of New Mexico
1998
- [BOOK REVIEW] Historic Zuni architecture and society, an archaeological application of space syntax
1997
- Archaeological cultures and cultural affiliation: Hopi and Zuni perspectives in the American Southwest
1997
- Native American oral tradition and archaeology: Issues of structure, relevance, and respect
1997
- Landscapes of settlement: Prehistory to the present-Roberts, BK
1997
- Historic Zuni Architecture and Society: An Archaeological Application of Space Syntax. Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, No. 60
1997
- THE DYNAMICS OF SOUTHWEST PREHISTORY-CORDELL, LS, GUMERMAN, GJ
1996
- Historic Zuni architecture and society: An archaeological application of space syntax
1996
- Pollen, Stratigraphy, and Chronology of the North Edge of Zuni Pueblo
1996
- Repatriation at the Pueblo of Zuni: Diverse solutions to complex problems
1996
- Native American oral traditions and archaeology
1996
- THE DESERTS PAST-A NATURAL PREHISTORY OF THE GREAT-BASIN-GRAYSON, DK
1996
- Native Americans and the practice of archaeology
1996
- Managing Hopi sacred sites to protect religious freedom
1996
- ANASAZI PLACES-THE PHOTOGRAPHIC VISION OF CURRENT, WILLIAM-COOK, J
1995
- Hopi and Zuni Trails and Traditional Cultural Properties in and Near the Interstate, Dead Wash, and Kelsey Housing Clusters on Chambers-Sanders Trust Lands, Apache County, Arizona
1995
- Ancient Architecture of the Southwest by William N. Morgan; Anasazi Places: The Photographic Vision of William Current by Jeffrey Cook
1995
- Sacred Sites, Sacred Places. David L. Carmichael, Jane Hubert, Brian Reeves, and Audhild Schanche, editors. One World Archaeology Vol. 23. Routledge …
1995
- Cultural resources management at the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, USA
1995
- Historic preservation and Native American sites
1995
- An anthropological perspective on Zuni land use
1995
- Issues relating to the use and preservation of Hopi sacred sites
1994
- The Return of the Ahayu: da
1993
- Working together: The roles of archaeology and ethnohistory in Hopi cultural preservation
1993
- Abandonment at Zuni farming villages
1993
- Understanding the past through Hopi oral history
1993
- Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa
1993
- Historic Zuni architecture and society: a structural analysis
1993
- Traditional cultural properties of four tribes: Fence Lake mine project
1993
- The return of the Ahayu: da: Lessons for repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution [and Comments and Replies]
1993
- BORN A CHIEF, THE 19TH-CENTURY HOPI BOYHOOD OF NEQUATEWA, EDMUND-SEAMAN, PD
1993
- Cushing at Zuni: The Correspondence and Journals of Frank Hamilton Cushing, 1879-1884
1992
- [BOOK REVIEW] A Zuni atlas
1991
- The Repatriation of Ahayu:da Zuni War Gods
1990
- Contemporary Zuni architecture and society
1990
- Comment on social integration and Anasazi architecture
1989
- Twentieth century Zuni political and economic development in relation to federal Indian policy
1988
- Public policy impacts on American Indian economic development
1988
- Settlement and growth of Zuni Pueblo: an architectural history
1987
- The impact of federal policy on Zuni land use
1987
- BARBARA J. MILLS
1986
- A Zuni atlas
1985
- Archaeological ethics and values in a tribal cultural resource management program at the Pueblo of Zuni
1984
- federal response to it is outlined to provide an overview of the administrative framework and legal proceedings through which the law is being plemented.
1983
- The Impact of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act: A Case Study of Zuni Pueblo
1983
- 7 Homes and Social Change: A Cross-Cultural Analysis Mary Gauvain, Irwin Alt/nan, and Hussein Fahim
1983
- Archaeological Investigations at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, 1977-1980
1982
- The emergence of modern Zuni culture and society: A summary of Zuni tribal history, AD 1450–1700
1981
- Zuni Settlement and Land Use: An Archaeological Perspective
1980
- The Zuni War Gods: Art, Artifact Or Religious Beings: A Conflict in Values, Beliefs, and Use
1979
- The Emergence of Modern Zuni Culture and Society: A Summary of Zuni Culture History, AD 1450 to 1700
1979
- The Built Environment of Zuni Pueblo: The Bounding, Use, and Classification of Space
1978
- A Records Inventory of the Archaeological Resources in the San Manual-Red Rock APS Transmission Line Study Area
1974
- Zuni Archaeology Program Pueblo of Zuni
1969
- Reviews: Growing up in the City: A Study of Juvenile Delinquency in an Urban Neighbourhood, the Judicial Process among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia, Custom and Conflict in …
1956