Michael Wilcox in Santa Fe

Michael Wilcox Is an Indigenous/Native American scholar (Yuman descent) who has taught at Stanford University since 2001. He received his Doctorate in Anthropology and Archaeology from Harvard University in 2001 where he was the instrumental in Founding the Harvard University Native American Program in fulfillment of Harvard's 1638 charter as an Indian College. At Stanford, Wilcox leads research projects from the Indigenous Archaeology Lab in the Archaeology Center and serves as a faculty affiliate in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. He was awarded the 2021–23 Woods Institute Environmental Ventures Grant “HO‘I HOU KA LOKO: (Bridging Past, Present, And Future) Ahupua'a Community based Agriculture and Aquaculture” with Professor Peter Vitousek, Director of the Wrigley Program in Hawaii.

Wilcox is the author of The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: an Indigenous Archaeology of Contact (University of California Press) and is co-editor of Rethinking Colonial Pasts Through Archaeology (Oxford University Press). He serves as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area and is a founding board member of the Muwekma Ohlone Cultural Preservation Land Trust.

His current research involves documentation of Indigenous rebellions in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as 'āina-based research and education with Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) communities in Hamakua Hawaii. He is working on an interdisciplinary project about the Indigenous history of the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2020, he received the departmental award, Outstanding Teaching in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. During our program in Santa Fe, Professor Wilcox will lecture on colonial history and Pueblo culture.