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Richard I. Ford
Richard I. Ford is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, and Curator of
Ethnology and Ethnobotany at the Museum of Anthropology. Throughout his career at
Michigan he has engaged in ethnobotanical and paleoethnobotanical research. Today, he
is using past research in the above disciplines to assists Native American tribes with legal
cases as an expert witness and consultant. In the area of archaeology, he identifies and
interprets plants to learn about past economies and environmental adaptations, includinf
the cultural modification of the landscape and the integration of Iberian crops into Pueblo
subsistence patterns. His current research includes rock art analyses in northeastern
Mexico, discerning the historic settlement system of selected bands of Jicarilla Apache,
and revealing mineral resource utilization in Prehistoric Pueblos in northern Mexico.
Selected Publications
2000 Ethnobiology at the Millennium. Anthropological Papers, University of Michigan
Museum of Anthropology (editor).
2000 Disturbance and Diversity. In Biodiversity and Native North Amerira.
Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens; pp. 207-222. University of Okhlahoma,
Norman.
1999 Ethnoecology serving the Community: A Case Study from Zuni Pueblo, New
Mexico. In Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives. Edited by Virginia D.
Nazarea; pp. 71-87. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
The Forgotten Undergraduate. In Transforming Academia: Challenges and
Opportunities for an Engaged Anthropology. Edited by L.G. Basch, L.W. Saunders, J.W.
Sharff, and J. Peacock; American Ethnological Society Monographs Series No 8: 161-
168.
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