Associate Professor of Anthropology
Dr. Panich employs a combination of archaeological, ethnographic, and archival data to examine the long-term entanglements between California’s indigenous societies and colonial institutions, particularly the Spanish mission system. He has conducted investigations of Native American life at Mission Santa Clara de Asís, on the SCU campus, as well as at Mission Santa Catalina in Baja California, Mexico. He is currently the co-director of a collaborative research project focused on autonomous indigenous villages that existed at the crossroads of the Spanish, Russian, Mexican, and American frontiers in Marin County, California. Since 2009, Dr. Panich has also worked with researchers from the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia to understand the geological and archaeological distribution of obsidian in Baja California.
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About Lee M. Panich
Dr. Panich employs a combination of archaeological, ethnographic, and archival data to examine the long-term entanglements between California’s indigenous societies and colonial institutions, particularly the Spanish mission system. He has conducted investigations of Native American life at Mission Santa Clara de Asís, on the SCU campus, as well as at Mission Santa Catalina in Baja California, Mexico. He is currently the co-director of a collaborative research project focused on autonomous indigenous villages that existed at the crossroads of the Spanish, Russian, Mexican, and American frontiers in Marin County, California. Since 2009, Dr. Panich has also worked with researchers from the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia to understand the geological and archaeological distribution of obsidian in Baja California.
| 2017 - Present | Associate Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Anthropology | |
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| 2011 - 2017 | Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Anthropology | |
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| 2010 - 2011 | Academic Year Lecturer, Santa Clara University ‐ Department of Anthropology | |
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Disciplines
Courses
- Anthropology 2: Introduction to Archaeology
- Anthropology 4: Vanished Peoples and Lost Civilizations
- Anthropology 114: Senior Seminar
- Anthropology 146: Anthropological Perspectives on Colonial California
- Anthropology 148: Historical Archaeology
- Anthropology 149: Virtual Santa Clara - History and Culture
- Anthropology 195: Field Course in Anthropological Methods
- Anthropology 196: Archaeological Methods and Theory
| 2009 | Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley | |
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| 2004 | M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley | |
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| 2001 | B.A. (Honors) in Anthropology, Brown University | |
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Contact Information
Department of Anthropology
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
408-551- 3325 (office)
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