HARTMAN H. LOMAWAIMA
Director, Arizona State Museum
Affiliate Faculty, Professor, American Indian Studies Program
University of Arizona
Address: Arizona State Museum
P O Box 210026
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0026
Telephone: (520) 621 6281 FAX: (520) 626 6761
E-Mail hartman@email.arizona.edu
Hartman is Hopi from the village of Sipalovi, Second Mesa, Arizona. His interest in museums stems from his graduate studies at Harvard where he took the opportunity to become familiar with the vast archival and collections resources of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Some years later he was appointed to the Board of Overseers’ Committee, which guides the Peabody in areas of program development and policy. Upon completion of his degree program, he accepted an administrative appointment in the Graduate Division at Stanford. While at Stanford, he also continued post-graduate studies in education and anthropology. From 1980 to 1988, he served as a senior administrative officer of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. In 1988 Hartman relocated with his wife, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, to the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1994, the Lomawaima’s accepted appointments at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tsianina is Professor of American Indian Studies and specializes in the history of American Indian experiences in boarding school education.
Hartman is very active in state, regional and national museum associations. He is the 1998 Museum Association of Arizona recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Museum and Historical Fields. He is Immediate Past Chair of the Nature, Culture & Heritage Alliance of Pima County. He has served as board member of the American Association for State and Local History and chaired the Committee on Standards and Ethics. In 2000 he was elected by his peers nationwide to the Board of Directors of The American Association of Museums; the field’s principal professional organization. In January 2001 he began a three-year term as member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Smithsonian Institution and chairs the Research and National Symposiums Planning committees. NMAI will open on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in September 2004. He is a member of a national steering committee that is developing the American Indian Museums Association. Board participation with civic organizations in Arizona include: Past president of the Hopi Foundation, past board member of Native Seeds SEARCH, Hopi Education Endowment Fund Board of Trustees, Tucson Pima Arts Council Board of Directors, Arizona Town Hall Board of Directors, University of Arizona College of Education Advisory Board, and Huhugam Heritage Center, Gila River Indian Community Charter Board of Directors.
LOMAWAIMA, Biographical Sketch, P. 2
Hartman’s current research interests lie in three areas:
· Museum organizational development with a focus on American Indian, Alaska Native and First Nations museums and heritage centers;
· American Indian contributions to U.S. transportation history with particular focus on Southwestern Indian communities in the building of the railway;
· Applications of early Spanish Colonial documents in developing a documentary history of Hopi-Spanish relations;
Recent scholarly publications include contributions to Encyclopedia of North American Indians and Encyclopedia of American History. Works in progress include contributions to The State of Native America (working title; Harvard University Press) and Portraits of a People (a manuscript on the imagery of Edward S. Curtis). Hartman also served as principal consultant and humanities scholar for the documentary film: Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian (a film by Anne Makepeace).
Hartman has served as principal consultant to a number of museums including the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and Plimoth Plantation in Massachusetts. Most recently, Hartman served as principal investigator and co-curator (with Prof. Melanie Yazzie) of the very successful exhibition Connections Across Generations: The Avery Collection of American Indian Paintings. The exhibition featured selections from a gift of 360 original paintings now part of the permanent collection of the Arizona State Museum.
Hartman is director of a state museum that specializes in the archaeology and ethnology of the American Southwest and north Mexico. The Arizona State Museum is a governmental agency with legislative mandates to oversee the state’s antiquities and repatriation laws. ASM is also part of the University of Arizona and contributes to the university’s research, education and outreach mission. Over the next few years, Hartman and his staff will guide the museum’s participation in the development of an urban cultural district called Rio Nuevo. Rio Nuevo, a site that has supported human occupation for more than 3,000 years, is considered the birthplace of Tucson. Rio Nuevo is perhaps the City of Tucson's most ambitious project to date. A project of such magnitude will require major financial support, cooperation among all communities and neighborhoods, strong partnerships, and good leadership.
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