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Biography

Tom Rocek, Ph.D., is a professor with the Department of Anthropology at the 91Ô­´´. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1985, was a fellow at the School of American Research (now School of Advanced Research) in Santa Fe in 1985-1986, and a visiting assistant Pprofessor of Anthropology at Oregon State University in 1986-1987, before joining the faculty at the 91Ô­´´. 

Rocek has studied historical Navajo settlements on the Navajo Nation, resulting in  (University of Arizona Press, 1995) and Formative through Late Prehistoric research in New Mexico, particularly within the Jornada branch of the Mogollon archaeological culture, resulting in , co-authored with John Speth (University of Michigan Press, 1986) and , co-edited with Nancy Kenmotsu (University of Colorado Press, 2019). A book on the Dunlap-Salazar Site is in preparation. 

Rocek's research interests include middle-range societies, agricultural origins, mobility and sedentism, quantitative analysis, and particularly comparative approaches to archaeological analysis. With Ofer Bar-Yosef, he is the co-editor of  (Harvard University, 1998). Most recently, these comparative interests have included both the Formative period in the Southwestern United States and the Neolithic period in the Czech Republic. 

Rocek is a member of the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, the European Association of Archaeologists, the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society and the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, and co-editor of , the Journal of the Arizona Anthropological and Historical Society. ​