Dr. Nash received his PhD and M.A. degrees from the University of Arizona in Tucson. He specializes in the archaeology of the American Southwest, the history of archaeology, and archaeological tree-ring dating. He joined the Museum after spending nine years at the Field Museum, Chicago.
Dr. Nash has published four books, including Time, Trees, and Prehistory: Tree-Ring Dating and the Development of North American Archaeology (University of Utah Press 1999), It's About Time: A History of Archaeological Dating in North America (University of Utah Press 2000), Curators, Collections, and Contexts: Anthropology at The Field Museum 1893–2002 (Field Museum 2003) and, most recently, Readings in Chronometric Analysis: Selections from American Antiquity and Latin American Antiquity, 1935 – 2006 (Society for American Archaeology Press 2009). Dr. Nash currently conducts field research on tree-ring dating archaeological sites at Mesa Verde National Park. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lecturer for the Illinois Department of Humanities “Roads Scholars” Speaker’s Bureau, Chicago.
The Council for Museum Anthropology has named Dr. Nash as Museum Anthropology co-editor for 2009 – 2012.
Current Projects
Recent Publications
Nash, S. 2007. Climate and Environment in the Southwest. Chapter in encyclopedia Archaeology in America, edited by Francis P. McManamon, Linda S. Cordell, Kent Lightfoot, and George R. Milner. Greenwood Publishing. With Paul R. Sheppard.
Nash, S. 2006. Dendrochronology. In Encyclopedia of Archaeology. Elsevier Press. (in press)
Nash, S. 2006. Sites Unseen: Paul Sidney Martin’s Unpublished Mogollon Excavations 1939–1972. In Thompson, Marc, Jason Jurgena, and Lora Jackson, Eds., Mostly Mimbres: A Collection of Papers from the12th Biennial Mogollon Conference, pp. 5–16.
Nash, S. 2005. Reconciling the Past: A Catalogue of Scattered Collections. In Archäologie and Computer Workshop 10. Kulturelles Erbe and Neue Technologien. With William Pestle, Karen Wilson, and Sarah Coleman. CD. Stadt Archä ologie Wien.
Nash, S. 2005. Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions and Archaeology: Uniting the Social and Natural Sciences in the American Southwest and Beyond. With Jeffrey S. Dean. In Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, edited by Don Fowler and Linda Cordell. The University of Utah Press, pp. 125–141.
