Lightfoot, Kent G.

Basic Biographical Information

Dr. Kent G. Lightfoot (b. May 23, 1953) (Fig. 1) is a North American archaeologist whose research transformed the relationship between history and prehistory and who developed widely adopted practices for collaborative relationships between archaeologists and Native Americans. Kent Lightfoot was educated at Stanford University (B.A., Anthropology, 1975) and Arizona State University (M.A., Anthropology, 1977; Ph.D., Anthropology, 1981). He taught at Arizona State University (1981), Northern Illinois University (1982), and State University of New York at Stony Brook (1982–1987) before moving to the University of California, Berkeley (1987–present), where he is currently professor of Anthropology and curator of North American Archaeology at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He is a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences; has received over a dozen teaching awards, including the 2007 American Anthropological Association Award for Excellence in...