Distinguished Research Professor Emerita
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Diane Gifford-Gonzalez is an archaeologist. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She has done fieldwork in California, Nevada, New Mexico, the Netherlands, Kenya, and Tanzania.
She has served as President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists and the Society for American Archaeology, on governing boards of those societies, of the International Conference of Archaeozoology (ICAZ), the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association, the Academic Advisory Council of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Long-Range Planning Committee of the American Anthropological Association. She serves on the editorial board of the Routledge African Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Series.
Zooarchaeology, vertebrate osteology, Holocene East African archaeology, pastoralists, gender in archaeology, interpretive theory in archaeology.
Zooarchaeology, African archaeology, pastoralism, Holocene Monterey Bay historical ecology, interpretive theory, visual anthropology, emergence of pastoralism in East Africa; foodways as cultural practices in colonial encounters.
Origins of farming and herding, Holocene African archaeology, writing in the anthropological sciences.
Gifford-Gonzalez has taught graduate courses at the University of Nairobi, University of Tromsø, la Universidad del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Academia Sinica, Beijing, China.
2020 Distinguished Social Sciences Emeriti Faculty Award, U. of California, Santa Cruz
2019-2020 E. A. Dickson Emeritus Professor, U. of California, Santa Cruz
2018 Fred Wendorf Memorial Lecture, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, November 30
2018 Keynote Speaker, European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, September 6
2017 Distinguished Lecture, Department of Archaeology, Institute for Science in Human History, Max Planck Institute, Jena, October 25
2015-2016 Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, Oslo.
2014 Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research. Division of Social Sciences, U. of California, Santa Cruz
2013 Committee of Honor, International Conference of Archaeozoology (ICAZ)
2013 Presidential Recognition Award, Society for American Archaeology
2007-2011 Fulbright Senior Specialist (Zooarchaeology)
2006-2008 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer
2003 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California Santa Cruz Alumni Association
2000 Excellence in Teaching Award, Academic Senate Committee on Teaching, University of California, Santa Cruz
1995 Presidential Recognition Award, Society for American Archaeology
1983 Citation, Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz County
1983 Merit Citation, Society for California Archaeology
2012-2014 (Gary A. Haynes Co-PI) National Science Foundation Biological Anthropology BCS-1145777 “Preparation of Two Taphonomic Reference Collections for Deposit in the National Taphonomic Reference Collection, Smithsonian,” ($45,761)
2012-2013 PI National Science Foundation Archaeology BCS-1240332 Dissertation Improvement Grant, “Mobility and Herd Management Strategies of Early Pastoralists in the Central Rift Valley and Athi Plains, Kenya, 3000-1200 BP.” ($24,406).
2012-2013 Subawardee, Moore Foundation “The Interaction of Climatic Change, Fire Regimes, and Human Landscape Management Practices on the Central Coast of California,” Rosemary Gillespie, Kent Lightfoot, David Ackerly PIs ($376,750)
2010-2011 PI National Science Foundation Archaeology BCS-1042704 Dissertation Improvement Grant, Cristie M. Boone, “Humans and the Marine Environment: Fishing through Time in Monterey Bay, California.” ($18,750)
2009-2012 Subawardee ($18,118), National Science Foundation Archaeology Research Grant BCS-0320168 “The Study of Indigenous Pyrodiversity Management Practices in Central California: An Eco-Archaeological Approach,” Kent G. Lightfoot PI ($211,844)
2008-2009 PI National Science Foundation Archaeology Dissertation Improvement Grant BCS-0840356, Charlotte K. Sunseri, “Prehistoric Economic Landscapes of the Greater Monterey Bay Area, California” ($11,837.00)
2017 Gifford-Gonzalez, D. “Animal disease challenges” fifteen years later: the hypothesis in light of new data. Quaternary International 436:283-293.
2014 Constructing Community through Refuse Disposal. African Archaeological Review 31(2):339-382.