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Road Scholar Presenters and Talks

The following AHC speakers are available for public programs sponsored by eligible organizations. Click on the speaker's name for a photo, biography, and detailed information about the talks listed.

Owen Anderson, Phoenix
. Enduring Questions: What is the Good?
. Religious Pluralism and Conflict
. Science and Religion

Akua Duku Anokye, Glendale
. African American Life and Culture in
El Mirage
. Other People's Children: African American Community Mothers, Community Activists
. A Story, A Story: African/African American
Oral Tradition and Storytelling

David R. Berman, Chandler
. Arizona's Age of Reform: Populists, Radicals and Progressives, 1890-1920
. Radicalism in the Mountain West: The Case of Arizona, 1890-1920

Elena Díaz Björkquist, Tucson
. Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation
. Growing Up Chicana in Morenci
. In the Shadow of the Smokestack

Albrecht Classen, Tucson
. German Jesuit Missionaries as Founders of Sonora/Arizona
. History of Women in the Western World: Medieval and Early Modern Women
. Quest for Religious Otherness: Medieval Mysticism and Modern Spirituality

John Craft, Phoenix
. Journalism Ethics in an Economically Challenged Media World
. The Role of the Mass Media in Our
Uncertain and Uncivil Society

Jay Craváth, Parker
. Along the California Trail
. Romancing Arizona: Songs of Love and Marriage
. The Music and Ritual of Arizona's Native Americans

Allen Dart, Tucson
. Archaeology and Cultures of Arizona
. Arts and Culture of Ancient Southern Arizona Hohokam Indians
. Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces
. Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art

Betsy Fahlman, Tempe
. Adventurous Spirits: Arizona's Women
Artists, 1900-1950
. Arizona During the Depression: Art and the New Deal
. Eating the Depression: New Deal Food
. The Art History of Arizona: Cultural Encounters with the Southwest

Kathy Farretta, Flagstaff
. American Arts and Crafts Style Architecture
. Community-Builders: The Riordan Families
of Flagstaff
. Flagstaff's First Twenty Years: Building Community on the Railroad Line
. Timber Tales: Logging in the Flagstaff Area

Dick George, Tempe
. Charles Fletcher Lummis: "The Greatest Southwesterner"?
. Descanse en Paz: Traditional Cemeteries
and Handmade Grave Markers in the Southwest
. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Walls, Boundaries, Lines in the Sand, and a Yankee Poet
. Symbolism in Southwest Cemeteries

Reba Wells Grandrud, Phoenix
. Arizona Women's Hall of Fame
. Cora Viola Slaughter, Southern Arizona Ranchwoman
. Historic Graffiti: Arizona's Own
"Independence Rock"
. In Their Own Words: Diaries of 19th Century Women

Brian Gratton, Tempe
. 403 Years of Immigration to America: Ethnicity, Public Opinion and Policy, 1607 to 2010

Dori Griffin, Tempe
. Arizona Map-makers
. Ephemeral Arizona
. On Tour in Arizona: Promoting Early Automobile Travel in the Grand Canyon State
. Ruins & Shrines: Visual Identity & Arizona's Kino Missions

Paul T. Hietter, Gilbert
. How the Judge's Brother Got Away with Murder: The Prosecution of Frank C. Kibbey
. How Wild Was It? An Overview of Crime
and Justice in Arizona Territory
. No Better Than Murderers: The Story of the Canyon Diablo Train Robbery of 1889
. Popular Justice Run Amok: The Globe Lynchings of 1882

Barbara Jaquay, Goodyear
. America's First Major Transportation System: The Erie Canal
. Descansos: Marking Passages
. "Funky Art" in the U.S.A
. The Changing Economic Resources on Arizona's Indian Reservations

Janice Jarrett, Tucson
. The Healing Art: How Does Music Soothe
the Soul?
. Jazz and the American Identity
. Steal from the Best: Music's Inherent Internationalism
. Your Musical Brain: Can Music Make You Smarter?

Thanasis Kinias, Phoenix
. Arabs and Other Muslims-Or Is It Muslims and Other Arabs?
. Islam: The Other Western Civ

Ann Hibner Koblitz, Phoenix
. Local Healers, Proprietary Medicines, and Frontier Docs: Women's Health in Territorial Arizona
. Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing Myths of Hohokam Militarism
. Shady Women and "Respectability" in Territorial Arizona

Robert E. Kravetz, Phoenix
. Arizona Territorial Medicine: Healers, Hucksters, and Heroes
. Literature, Art, and Medicine
. Medicine's Greatest Discoveries
. Healthseekers in Arizona

Douglas E. Kupel, Ph.D., Phoenix
. Fuel for Growth: Water Challenges Facing Arizona's Urban Environment
. Liquid Gold: History of Reclaimed Water Use in Arizona
. Not a Drop to Drink: Arizona's Last Great Drought, 1920-1941

J.J. Lamb, Vail
. New Deal in Arizona: Roosevelt's Recipe for National Restoration
. Spelunking for the Corps: The Civilian Conservation Corps at Colossal Cave
Mountain Park

Adair Landborn, Tucson
. Dance, Sensuality, and Culture
. Flamenco Dance and Spanish Bullfighting:
A Confluence of Movement Traditions?
. Why So Much Passion?

Elizabeth Larson-Keagy, Tempe
. Demographic Issues of Southwest Asia & Afghanistan
. U.S. Population Beyond 300 Million
. What Is the World Growing To? Earth
Beyond 6 Billion!
. Who Lives in Arizona? Arizona's Changing Demography

Karen J. Leong, Tempe
. Asian Americans in Arizona
. Japanese Americans in Arizona
. Japanese-American Internment in Arizona
. A Present Absence: Hollywood's History of American Diversity

Geta LeSeur, Tucson
. Beyond the Cotton Fields: Black Migrant Women Building Communities
. Eloy's Gun and Cotton Stories:
Romanticizing the Real
. Not All Okies Are White: Randolph,
Arizona, 1930s-1950s

Micah Loma'omvaya, Second Mesa
. Change and Continuity: 1500 years of Hopi Farming and Land Stewardship on the
Colorado Plateau
. Hisatqatsit Aw Maamatslalwa ~ Comprehending our Past Life-ways and Thoughts about a Hopi Archaeology
. Hopi Pönawit ~ Along Ancient Trails and the Cultural Landscape of the Hopi People
. Hopi Running Traditions: Ancient Traditions and Practices of Health, Values and Cultural Endurance

Tom Lombardo, Scottsdale
. Science Fiction as the Mythology of the Future
. Visions of the Ideal Human Society: Past, Present, and Future

Ann-Mary Lutzick, Winslow
. Ahead of Her Time: Architect Mary Jane
Colter in Arizona
. "Don't Cut the Ham Too Thin, Boys":
The Key Ingredients of Harvey Houses
. The Fred Harvey Company and Tourism in the West
. The Harvey Girls of Arizona


Gregory McNamee, Tucson
. Arizona for Newcomers
. Arizona Place Names: Names on the Land
. The Food of Arizona: Many Cultures, Many Flavors
. The Opening of the Frontier and the Closing of the West
. Monumental Places: Arizona's National Parks and Monuments
. River of History: A Gila Journey

Mary Melcher, Phoenix
. Arizona's Birth Control Movement: Providing Contraceptives to Rural and Urban Women
. Arizona Foods during Depression and World War: Changing the Key Ingredients
. Arizona Women's Heritage Trail: Marking Their Sites
. "Batter Up!" Arizona's Women Softball Teams
. Making Do with Less: Arizona Women and the Great Depression

Tom Miller, Tucson
. Thornton Wilder's Arizona Days
. Writing on the Edge: Borderlands Reading

Dale Curtis Miles, San Carlos
. Apache Culture Kit
. The Camp Grant Massacre, 1871
. The Fight in the Salt River Canyon: Skull Cave, December 1872
. General Crook and the Sierra Madre Adventure in Mexico, 1883

Vincent Murray, Tempe
. The Creation of a County Called Maricopa
. Damming Phoenix: A History of Flooding and Flood Control in Maricopa County, 1870-2000
. Lost Carmelita
. Phoenix's Madison Square Garden

Don Nilsen, Tempe
. Humorous Names in Political Campaigns
. Features, Functions and Subjects of Humor
. The Recycling of Visual Symbols in Political Cartoons
. Visual Humor: Some Humorous Analogies between Language and Art

Heidi Osselaer, Ph.D., Scottsdale
. Nellie Trent Bush: Maverick Politician
. Votes for Women: The Arizona Woman Suffrage Movement, 1883-1912
. Winning Their Place: Arizona's Female Politicians, 1914-1950

Jennifer Parchesky, Tempe
. Beyond the Jazz Age: Everyday Life in 1920s America
. Glad Games for the 21st Century: Pollyanna in the Postmodern Age
. Women Filmmakers, 1896 to the Present
. Women in the Driver's Seat: Automobiles and Authorship in Early Women's Films

Robin Pinto, Tucson
. Arizona's Civilian Conservation Corps and Our National Parks and Forests
. Cattle and Grasslands: A History of Ranching in Southeastern Arizona
. Hispanic Settlement and Homesteading in Southeastern Arizona

Wayne Ranney, Flagstaff
. Ancient Landscapes of the American Southwest
. Carving Grand Canyon: Evidence, Theories, and Mystery
. Sedona Through Time

H. Christine Reid, Florence
. Fascinating Florence AZ: Not Just a Prison Town
. Pearl Hart, the Lady Bandit- Victim or Vixen...or Both?
. Voices from the Past - Walking the Florence AZ Cemetery

Jeremy Rowe, Mesa
. 19th Century Arizona Through the Stereoscope
. Post Card Images of Arizona, 1900-1920
. Silver Images on Glass Plates-Early Photography in Arizona

Greg Scott, Nogales
. Badger Clark, Cowboy Poet
. The Crooked Trail to Holbrook
. Songs of the "Cherrycows:" Cowboy Folk Music and its Changing View of the West

Brooks D. Simpson, Gilbert
. The American Presidency
. Civil Liberties in Time of War
. Our Civil War: Reflections at the Sesquicentennial
. Emancipation and the Destruction of Slavery, 1861-1865

Chris Smith, Tempe
. Americans and Their Things
. The History of American Humor

Mikelle Omari Smith-Tunkara, Tempe
. Conscious Power: The Art and Architecture of African Kingdoms
. Contemporary African and African-American Visuality: The Poetics and Politics of Post/Modernisms
. Honoring Sacred Waters: Art in Africa and its Diasporas
. RE/Membering Spirits and Ancestors: The 'Worlds' of Africana Mosaic Arts

Charles Tatum, Tucson
. Chicano Popular Culture
. Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Autobiography
. The Origins and Development of Chicana/o Literature

Judy Nolte Temple, Tucson
. Family Secrets: The Uneasy Tradition of Diarists and Their Readers
. For Love or Money: The Western Saga of Horace and "Baby Doe" Tabor

Laura Tohe, Mesa
. Armed with our Language, We Went to War: The Diné/Navajo Code Talkers
. Oral and Written Literature Among Southwestern Indigenous Writers and Storytellers

Jim Turner, Tucson
. For God, Gold, and Glory: The Coronado Expedition, 1540-42
. Images of Grandeur: Artists and Photographers of the Grand Canyon
. The Pima Villages: Oasis at a Cultural Crossroads
. How Arizona Got Its Name

Philip VanderMeer, Mesa
. Collapse and Rebirth of Downtown Phoenix, 1945-2007
. Transforming Desert Visions: The Growth of Phoenix, 1860-2006

Janolyn Lo Vecchio, Tucson
. 1921-1945: The Struggle of Arizona Women to Serve on Juries
. Pioneer Arizona Businesswomen
. From Kitchen to Congress: Pioneer Arizona Women Politicians

Jay Van Orden, Tucson
. Geronimo's Surrender: The 1886 C. S. Fly Photographs
. Warriors and Beyond: A Closer Look at the Clothing, Equipment, and Lifestyle of the Chiricahua Apache

Santos C. Vega, Tempe
. Encountering God Through the Mexican American Experience
. The History of Mexico and Contemporary Issues
. Mexican American History and Culture in Transition
. The Repatriation of Mexican and Mexican American Citizens in the 1930s

Todd Weber, Prescott
. The History of the River Runners of the Grand Canyon
. Lewis and Clark: The Arizona Connection
. Pauline Weaver and the Mountain Men of the West

Richard E. Wentz, Flagstaff
. The Beauty of John Updike's Hard-Pressed Fiction
. Religion, Politics, and American Public Life
. Tony Hillerman, Yataalii of the Navajo Way

Eric Wertheimer, Phoenix
. Insurance and Literature in America
. The First American War

John S. Westerlund, Flagstaff
. Arizona's War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II
. Indian Labor: Navajo and Hopi Workers at Navajo Ordnance Depot
. Flagstaff and the Austrians: Prisoners of War at Navajo Ordnance Depot

Matthew C. Whitaker, Mesa
. The African American Experience in Arizona: 500 Years of History
. History, Hip Hop and American Popular Culture
. Race Relations and Interracial Unity in America
. Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West

Edward Williams, Prescott
. Fences and Walls: Which Side Are You On? Perspectives from the Smithsonian, Arizona and Beyond
. The Southern Connection: The Meaning of Mexico for Arizona and the U.S.
. A Third Country? Cultural and Economic Melding on the Arizona/Sonora Border

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Flagstaff
. Indian and Navajo-U.S. Treaties
. The Long Walk of the Navajo People, 1864 - 1868
. Navajo Elders: Our Children's Birthright!