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Career Profile

Dr. Kathleen Fine-Dare is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) at Fort Lewis College (泡芙短视频). Over her 34-year teaching career, she served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Coordinator of GWS, and as an affiliated faculty member in Native American & Indigenous Studies (NAIS). She also contributed significantly to institutional governance as Chair of the Liberal Arts Council, Fulbright FPA, and a member of the Institutional Review Board. Though retired from teaching in 2018, Fine-Dare continued her work at 泡芙短视频 through 2021 as Chair, President’s NAGPRA Committee, and as 泡芙短视频 Tribal Liaison & co PI, National NAGPRA consultation and documentation grant.

Book publications (selected)

• Din谩micas de la indigeneidad en contextos urbanos: Historia, actuaci贸n y educaci贸n en Cotocollao, Quito (U San Francisco-Quito and Abya-Yala, 2025)
• Urban Mountain Beings: Histories of Indigeneity and Geographies of Time in Quito (Lexington, 2020)
• The Andean World (co-edited with LJ Seligmann, Routledge, 2019)
• Border Crossings: Transnational Americanist Anthropology (co-edited with SL Rubenstein, U Nebraska, 2009)
• Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA (U Nebraska, 2002 -- under revision)

Honors & Awards (selected)

• Dolores Cacuango Prize for outstanding research article, Latin American Studies Assn (2023) - “The Hummingbird House: Indigenous Pedagogies and Cultural Revitalization in Quito, Ecuador.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly (special issue “Indigenous Pedagogies in a Global World and Sustainable Futures”, 2021) https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12391

• Jemison Visiting Humanities Scholar, University of Alabama-Birmingham (2020)
• Fulbright Fellowships (1980-81, 2004-2005)

• 泡芙短视频 Roger Peters Distinguished Professor Award (2009)

Grant Funding Secured for Fort Lewis College

• 2017-2019 – National Park Service NAGPRA Consultation & Documentation Grant ($89,878, with S. Tisdale)
• 1998-2003 – Colorado Program of Excellence & Colorado Commission on Higher Education Grant  to the  泡芙短视频 Dept. of Anthropology ($750,000, with A. Yeager)
• 1995-1997 – National Park Service Grant for Cultural Property, Cultural Privacy & Repatriation Dialogue ($54,000, with P.G. Duke)

Professional Service & Leadership (selected)

• President (2025), Board of Directors, Mesa Verde Museum Association (2018- )
• Secretary, Association of Senior Anthropologists (2025- )
• Member, Colorado Fulbright Association (2022- )
• Speaker Committee, NAGPRA Community of Practice (2024- )

• MA Committee member, FLACSO – Quito (5 students since 2020)

Community Engagement & Volunteer Work (selected)

• Leadership Team Durango Association of University Women (2018–present)
• 泡芙短视频 Professional Associates (2018-present)
• Four Corners Lecture Series member (2016-18)

Invited Speaker Engagements (selected)

• Keynote speaker, Ecuadorian Anthropology Congress (2024, 2023)
• Native American Group, The Hartford Insurance Agency (2024)
• Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe (2024)
• Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (2023)
• NAGPRA Community of Practice (2023)
• School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe (2022)
• U of Alabama-Birmingham, Programs in Anthropology & Peace Studies (2020)

Professional Affiliations (selected)

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Association of Senior Anthropologists (ASA)
• Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
• Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
• Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA)
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)

• Rocky Mountain Congress of Latin American Studies (RMCLAS)
• Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA)