Somewhat to my surprise, I've become a social and applied anthropologist. Certainly, I received a firm grounding in the hallowed fourfield approach both as an undergraduate and a graduate student, but I always supposed that the "lesser three fields" would merely serve as adjuncts to my career as an academic archeologist, useful mainly for teaching yet another generation of undergraduates the importance of eating mongongo nuts among the Bushmen. I began with an interest in Southwest anthropology and archeology and received a B.A. from the University of New Mexico and a doctorate from the University of Arizona. Yet even then I was interested in the full range of Indian America, contemporary as well as historic and prehistoric. Now I am founder and president of Bronitsky and Associates, a firm with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Bergamo, Italy, which works with American Indian individuals, communities and organizations throughout the United States (including Alaska) and Canada to bring to the world the best that Indian America has to offer. Over the last few years, among other accomplishments, we've toured a Comanche fluteplayer to Ireland, set up a one-man show for a hot glass artist from Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, at the National Glass Museum in Finland, and gotten a Navajo writer published in Ireland—in Navajo, English, and Irish. How I got here from where I started—well, thereby hangs a tale.
“Peace engineering in practice: A case study at the University of New Mexico”
