Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Robert Preucel is James Manning Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. He received his doctorate from UCLA in 1988. His dissertation examined prehistoric seasonal agricultural circulation on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico. He was the 6th Annual CAI Visiting Scholar at SIU Carbondale in 1989 and organized a conference on the Processual/Postprocessual debate. In 1990, he took an Assistant Professor position at Harvard University. In 1995, he left Harvard for an Associate Professor position at the University of Pennsylvania. He was made Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor of Anthropology in 2009 and served as Chair of the Department (2009-2012) and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten Curator-in-charge of the American Section at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology (2010-2012).