Materials in the Professional Service and Activities series, 1968-2004 (4.5 linear feet), are further divided into five subseries: committees, societies and organizations, independent conferences, lectures, and reviews. The committees subseries documents Ford's administrative involvement with and on committees and boards at the University of Michigan and beyond. The societies and organizations subseries chronicles Ford's work with professional bodies such as the American Anthropology Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Conference on Michigan Archaeology, and the Society for American Archaeology. The series also includes the subseries independent conferences, which contains records from conferences Ford attended that were not affiliated with a professional body, but rather another type of institution, such as a university or museum. The lectures subseries includes correspondence and writings from lectures delivered by Ford. The final subseries, reviews, documents Ford's work as an editorial reviewer, member of external review panels for cultural institutions and universities, and as a participant in tenure and promotion reviews.
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Search
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Advisory Committee 1989-1997
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Provost Arts Advisory Committee 1998-1999
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Senate Assembly Research Policies Committee 1999
(4 folders)
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VCM Oversight Committee 1997-1998
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Walpi Advisory Panel 1979-1981
(2 folders)
Societies and Organizations [subseries]
American Anthropology Association
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Archaeology Division 1988-1991
(8 folders)
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Awards 1991
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Chairmanship,1989 1991
(2 folders)
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Division Head,1991
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Employment Workshop 2001
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Executive Director Search 1996
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Phoenix Meeting 1988
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Reorganization 1979-1993
(4 folders)
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Symposium 1991
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Washington Meeting 1995
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Chair, Section H 1987-1988
(2 folders)
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Denver 1977
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American Association for Museums 1984
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American Ethnological Association, Detroit, Michigan 1975
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Baca Institute for Ethnobotany 1994-1997
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Material Culture: Styles, Organization and Dynamics of Technology
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American Indian Historical Society 1970
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Central States Anthropological Association, Detroit 1971
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Conference on Michigan Archaeology 1969-1974
(2 folders)
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Congress of Americanists, Manchester, Eng 1982
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International Botanical Conference 1981
International Society for Ethnobiology
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Cambridge, Massachusetts 1985
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Lucknow, India 1994
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International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Vancouver and Quebec 1982
International Congress of Ethnobiology
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Brazil 1988
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General 1990, 2000
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Mexico City 1994
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National Endowment for the Humanities 1990
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National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property 1983-1989
(2 folders)
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Ohio Humanities Council, Columbus, Ohio 1988
Society for American Archaeology
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Administrative Reports 1970-1978
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General 1969-1985
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Las Vegas, Small Sites 1990
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Minneapolis 1982
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San Francisco 1973
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St. Louis
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Seeds to Gardens: Topics in Plains Ethnobotany 1993
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Is There a Future in Archaeology? 1992
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Tucson, Arizona 1978
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Vancouver, Canada, Curation of Archaeological Collections 1979
Society for Economic Botany, College Station
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General 1989-1992
(2 folders)
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General 1996
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Texas 1984
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Society for Ethnobotany 1990
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Southeastern Indian Antiquities Survey 1970-1971
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Southwestern Anthropological Association, Santa Fe 1975
Independent Conferences [subseries]
Botanical Society of America and the American Institute for Biological Sciences, Current Thought in Plant Ecology, "Ethnobotany and Ecology: A Synthesis," 1973
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History, The Cultural Emergence of Man, "Early Domestication in the New World," 1979
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Hopewell Conference, "Gathering and Gardening: Trends and Consequences of Hopewell Subsistence Strategies," 1978
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Monticello-University of Virginia, Conference on Landscape Archaeology, "Ethnoscience, Archaeobotany, and the Reconstruction of an Anthropogenic Landscape," 1986
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New York Academy of Sciences, Research Potential of Museum Collections, "New Ideas about the Origin of Agriculture Based on 50 Years of Museum Curated Plant Remains," 1981
University of Michigan
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Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Ecology and Evolution in the Tropics, "Agriculture and Evolution: Enabling or Inevitable?," 1986
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Journal of Law Reform, Symposium: The Preservation of Minority Cultures, "Whose Culture Is It? Repatriation of Native American Heritage," 1992
(2 folders)
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University of Michigan and the Smithsonian Institution, Presenting History: Museums in a Democratic Society 1995
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University of Minnesota, Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World, "Corn is Our Mother," 1990
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University of New Mexico, New Perspectives on the Pueblos, "Perspectives on New Mexican Prehistory," 1971
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University of Pennsylvania, University Museum: Assets or Liabilities?, "The Collections and Student Use," 1980
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Recursos of Santa Fe, Gardens of the Southwest, "Impact of Spanish Foods on Pueblo Diet and Gardens," 1991
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San Juan Pueblo, When Cultures Meet, "The New Pueblo Economy," 1984
School of American Research
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General Materials 1978-1979
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Black Mesa Archaeological Project, Advanced Seminar, "People and Plants on Prehistoric Black Mesa," 1982
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China Through Scholars' Eyes, Touring Seminar 1982
(2 folders)
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Explanation of Prehistoric Organizational Change, "Advanced Seminar," Evolutionary Ecology and the Evolution of Human Ecosystems," 1971
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The Hopi Indians, Advanced Seminar 1982
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The Tewa Group, Advanced Seminar, "Tewa Ethnoscience and Ecology: Tradition and Place," 1981
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University of California, Los Angeles, Conference on American Folk Medicine, "Communication Networks and Information Hierarchies Among Western North American Indians," 1973
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University of California, Santa Cruz, Columbus Quincentenary Symposium 1991
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Smithsonian Institution, "Indication of Domestication in Indigenous North American Plants," 1987
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Wake Forest University, Worlds Transformed, "Food and the Changing Ecology of Post Columbian America," 1992
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
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Morelos, Mexico, Morelos in a Global Economy 1989
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Tarrytown, NY, Anthropological Priorities in the Next Decade and the Role of the American Anthropological Association, "Anthropology in the Academy," 1993
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, "Native American Farming and Gardening Systems: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspective on food production," 1987
Dartmouth College
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"Genetic Change from Prehistoric Hands: The Sociocultural Basis for Plant Domestication," 1986
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"Domestication and Human Selection," 1986
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"Humanistic Applications of Prehistoric Archaeology," undated
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International Congress of Ethnobiology, "Landmarks in Ethnobiology," undated
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"Martin Aguilar," undated
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Miami University, "Reinterpreting Early Agriculture in the Southwest," 1984
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"Museum: At the Core of Liberal Arts Education," undated
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Oberlin College, "Evolution of Human Ecosystems," 1973
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"100 Years of Ethnobotany," Janaki Ammal Medal Lecture undated
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, "Plant Ecology, Biodiversity, and Prehistoric Land Management Systems in Northern New Mexico, USA," 1998
University of British Columbia, Botany 80: Meeting of North American Botanists, "Ethnobotany in North America: An Historical Phytogeographic Perspective," 1980
University of Michigan
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Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture, "Metaphors in Stone: Interpreting Rock Art in New Mexico," 2005