Executive Committee
Members of the Executive Committee serve voluntarily and without compensation. To date the Institute has never had a salaried officer or employee.
Richard Burger
President
Joined 1991
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
10 Sachem Street
New Haven, CT 06520
richard.burger@yale.edu
Daniel Sandweiss
Vice President
Joined 2006
Department of Anthropology
University of Maine
South Stevens 5773
Orono, ME 04469-5773
dan.sandweiss@maine.edu
Jeff Quilter
Treasurer
Joined 2005
Lisa Deleonardis
Secretary
Joined in 2012
Department of Anthropology
Peabody Museum
11 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
quilter@fas.harvard.edu
Austen-Stokes Associate Professor
Department of the History of Art
Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
lisa.deleonardis@jhu.edu
Current Members
Current membership of the IAR consists of individuals dedicated to the increase and spread of knowledge in the various branches of anthropology as they concern the Andean region.
Heather Lechtman
Executive Committee
Joined prior to 1991
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Masssachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139
lechtman@mit.edu
John Richard Topic
Executive Committee
Joined 1994
Professor Emeritus
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
jtopic@trentu.ca
Lucy Salazar
Joined 2018
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
Research Associate
lucy.salazar@yale.edu
Tamara Bray
Joined 2008
Department of Anthropology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan 48202
t.bray@wayne.edu
Michael Malpass
Joined 2008
Department of Anthropology
Ithaca College
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850-7274
malpass@ithaca.edu
Tom Dillehay
Joined 2006
Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #356050
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235
tom.d.dillehay@vanderbilt.edu
Susan Niles
Joined 2005
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
niless@lafayette.edu
Joanne Pillsbury
Joined 2005
Scott Raymond
Joined 2004
Department of Archaeology
The University of Calgary
2500 University Drive, NW
Calgary, Alberta,
Canada T2N 1N4
scott.raymond@ucalgary.ca
Frank Salomon
Joined 2004
Department of Anthropology
1180 Observatory Dr.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
fsalomon@wisc.edu
Charles Hastings
Joined prior to 2004
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work
Central Michigan University
144 Anspach Hall
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
hasti1cm@cmich.edu
Katarina Schreiber
Joined prior to 2004
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois
207 W. Washington
Urbana, IL 61801
rtzuidem@illinois.edu
Paul Goldstein
Joined prior to 2004
Department of Anthropology
9500 Gilman Dr.
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA 92093-0532
psgoldstein@ucsd.edu
Clark Erickson
Joined 2003
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania
University Museum Room 436
cerickso@sas.upenn.edu
Theresa Lange Topic
Joined 1994
Professor Emerita
Brescia University College
London, Ontario N6G 1H2
ttopic@uwo.ca
Patricia Netherly
Research Associate Professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Vanderbilt University
patricia.j.netherly@vanderbilt.edu
Justin Jennings
Curator of Latin American Archaeology
Department of Art and Culture
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park, Toronto ON
M5S 2C6 CANADA
collota@gmail.com
Founders
Wendell C. Bennett
Founder (1905-1953)
An anthropologist and founding member of the Institute of Andean Research, Bennett taught at Yale beginning in 1940. He was a staff specialist in Andean archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History in the 1930’s.
Fay-Cooper Cole
Founder (1881-1961)
An American anthropologist who became an authority on the peoples and cultures of the Malay Archipelago, Cole was a promoter of modern archaeology. He also wrote several popular works on evolution and the growth of culture.
Alfred V. Kidder
Founder (1885-1963)
Kidder was the foremost American archaeologist of his day involved in the study of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, and the force behind the first comprehensive, systematic approach to North American archaeology.
Alfred L. Kroeber
Founder (1876-1960)
An American cultural anthropologist, Kroeber received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901. He developed one of the world’s great research museums and teaching departments of anthropology and was the first professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Samuel KI. Lothrop
Founder (1892-1965)
A Harvard graduate, Lothrop's fascination with New World prehistory led him to perform fieldwork across central and south America, including highland Guatemala, El Salvador, Patagonia, and Peru.
Philip A. Means
Founder (1892-1944)
A leading scholar in American archeology, history, and literature with a focus on Peruvian archeology. Means served as Director of the Peruvian National Museum from 1920-21. His greatest contribution to prehistory was his volume ‘Ancient Civilizations of the Andes’.
Leslie Spier
Founder (1893-1961)
Spier, a well-known anthropologist, served as editor for a number of journals, monograph series, and special volumes, including the Yale University Papers in Anthropology and the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. He also wrote about his extensive ethnological fieldwork.
Alfred M. Tozzer
Founder (1876-1954)
An American anthropologist, archaeologist, linguist, and educator, Tozzer’s was a prominent Mayanist and Mesoamerican scholar. He served two consecutive terms as president of the American Anthropological Association, and was also elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
George C. Vaillant
Founder (1901-1945)
Vaillant received a Ph.D. from Harvard. He served as Associate Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Museum Director at the University of PA, and as the US State Department Cultural Relations Officer in Lima, Peru. His work lead him to the American southwest, Egypt, and Central and South America.