Jerry Sabloff

Jerry Sabloff

Jeremy "Jerry" Arac Sabloff (1944 – ) is an American anthropologist and president of the Santa Fe Institute^[1] in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sabloff is an expert on ancient Maya civilization and pre-industrial urbanism.^[2][3][4] His academic interests have included settlement pattern studies, archaeological theory and method, the history of archaeology^[5], the relevance of archaeology in the modern world,^[6] complexity theory, and transdisciplinary science.^[7]

Sabloff received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in 1969 from Harvard^[8], where his doctoral supervisor was archaeologist Gordon Willey.^[9][10]

Prior to coming to the Santa Fe Institute, Sabloff was at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, as well as the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum (1994-2004) and interim director of the museum (2006-2007).^[11] He also has taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was chair of the Department of Anthropology), and the University of Pittsburgh (where he was chair of the Department of Anthropology).^[12]

Sabloff is an outspoken proponent of science communication.^[13] In 2010 he delivered the distinguished lecture at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting, encouraging anthropologists to make their work accessible to their relevant publics and cultivate a new generation of scientist-communicators.^[14]

Sabloff is past president of the Society for American Archaeology, a past anthropology section chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past editor of American Antiquity^[15]

He has served as chair of the Smithsonian Science Commission (2001-2003)^[16] and currently chairs the visiting committee for the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the National Museum of Natural History, the Board of Trustees of the SRI Foundation^[17], the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a fellow of both the Society of Antiquaries, London, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[18]

He is the author of Excavations at Seibal: Ceramics (1975), The Cities of Ancient Mexico (1989,1997), The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya (1990), and Archaeology Matters (2008).^[19] He is co-author of A History of American Archaeology (1974, 1980, 1993), A Reconnaissance of Cancuen, Peten, Guatemala (1978), Ancient Civilizations: The Near East and Mesoamerica (1979, 1995), Cozumel: Late Maya Settlement Patterns (1984), and The Ancient Maya City of Sayil (1991). He has edited or co-edited 12 books, the most recent of which is (with anthropologist Joyce Marcus) The Ancient City (2008).

Sabloff resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is married to anthropologist Paula Sabloff, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

External Links

• National Academy of Science interview with Jeremy Sabloff
• American Anthropological Association 2010 Distinguished Lecture
• Archaeology Matters (2008)

References

1. ^ Santa Fe Institute profile [1]
2. ^ Jeremy Sabloff, The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya, a Scientific American Library Book, W.H. Freeman, 1990 [2]
3. ^ Jeremy Sabloff, The Cities of Ancient Mexico, rev. ed, Thames and Hudson, 1997 [3]
4. ^ Joyce Marcus and Jeremy Sabloff, eds., The Ancient City, School for Advanced Research, 2008 [4]
5. ^ Bibliographic Essay, America’s National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation, U.S. National Park Service [5]
6. ^ Society for American Archaeology 2011 Awards for Excellence [6]
7. ^ University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Frontiers article [7]
8. ^ Biography of Sabloff
9. ^ Jeremy Sabloff and William Fash, eds., Gordon R. Willey and American Archaeology, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 [8]
10. ^ Jeremy Sabloff, Obituary of Gordon Randolph Willey, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 148, No. 3, September 2004 [9]
11. ^ University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Frontiers article [10]
12. ^ Biography of Jeremy Sabloff [11]
13. ^ National Academy of Sciences Online, audio interview with Jeremy Sabloff, 2009 [12]
14. ^ Jeremy A. Sabloff, 2010, distinguished lecture at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting
15. ^ Biography of Jeremy Sabloff [13]
16. ^ Smithsonian Science Commission Contacts [14]
17. ^ Biography of Jeremy Sabloff [15]
18. ^ Biography of Jeremy Sabloff [16]
19. ^ University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Frontiers article [17]

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