Glenn Farris
Dr. Farris served as President of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) during the year 1996 and is currently in his year as Immediate Past President. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Historical Archaeology, as well as Reviews Editor for the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, and Publications Chair for the California Mission Studies Association. He was also the co-chair organizing the CMSA conference in Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the first mission in the Californias (1697).
Farris presented papers on his recent research at various conferences in 1996 and early 1997. Included were: "The Troje of Mission La Purisima Concepcion," (California Mission Studies Conference, San Francisco, Feb. 17, 1996); "Indian Ethnogeography Elicited from Land Grant Records," (Society for California Archaeology, Bakersfield, April 5, 1996); "Archaeology of La Troje & El Almacen at La Purisima Mission State Historic Park (Gran Quivira Conference, Mountainair, NM, October 11, 1996); "Las Casas para los Neofitos in the Missions of Santa Cruz, San Juan Bautista, and La Pur¡sima Concepcion," (California Mission Studies Association, Loreto, Baja California Sur, May 24, 1997).
Publications have included contributions to the recent ARF publication, The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Fort Ross, California, Vol. II, The Native Alaskan Neighborhood, A Multiethnic Community at Colony Ross (ARF Contribution No. 55, 1997, ed. by Kent G. Lightfoot, Ann M. Schiff, and Thomas A. Wake), and to an article called "The Age of Russian Imperialism in the North Pacific," in a soon to be released volume in the Kroeber Anthropological Society series. In addition, he has an article in the Journal of San Diego History (Vol. 43, No. 2, In Press) called "Captain Jose Panto and the San Pascual Indian Pueblo in San Diego County (1835-1878)." An article, "Ethics for North American Archaeologists: the Society for Historical Archaeology," appeared in Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites vol. 2 (1997), pp. 33-34, a British publication.
"José Panto, Captain of the San Pascual Pueblo" was published in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 16(2): 149-161 (1994).