REVIEW COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
The National NAGPRA Program extends a sincere welcome to two new members of the NAGPRA Review Committee. Following careful consideration, Secretary of the Interior Salazar has appointed Alexander Wade Barker and LindaLee Kuuleilani Farm to four-year terms on the seven-member Review Committee, effective April 28, 2011. The two new members were appointed by the Secretary from a list of seven nominees submitted by national museum organizations and scientific organizations.
Alex Barker currently serves as Director of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology, and Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. Prior to that appointment, he served, first, as Section Head of Anthropology and Curation of North American Archaeology and later, as Vice President for Collections and Research, at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Since 2004, he has been Co-Principal Investigator for the Pecica-Santul Mare Project, in Romania. He also has served as Field Director for numerous archeological projects in the United States. During the course of his career, he has served on national museum and scientific organization committees and task forces that have addressed professional ethics, as well as culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains and NAGPRA. Alex Barker was nominated to the Review Committee by the American Anthropological Association, the American Association of Museums, and the Society for American Archaeology.
LindaLee (Cissy) Farm is a partner at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, LLP, a Hawaii-based law firm. She concentrates her law practice in the area of commercial litigation. She has handled commercial and business disputes, professional liability defense, personal injury and wrongful death claims, products liability, Native Hawaiian rights, land use, and appellate advocacy. Since 2003, she has represented the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum on a variety of NAGPRA issues, including as lead counsel in litigation. In November 2010, she was a panelist in a session at the two-day symposium NAGPRA at 20, held in Washington, DC. That session, "NAGPRA and the Courts", discussed the use of court cases to further the purpose of NAGPRA as civil rights legislation, and the future of NAGPRA in the courts. Cissy Farm was nominated to the Review Committee by the Natural Science Collections Alliance.
Alex Barker and Cissy Farm succeed Dan Monroe and Alan Goodman. On behalf of all Department of the Interior staff whose work supports the National NAGPRA Program and the Review Committee, we commend Messrs. Monroe and Goodman for the benefits they have brought to all NAGPRA constituents through the considerable time, thought, and effort they devoted to the NAGPRA process.
June 21-22, 2011: Review Committee Meeting to be held in Syracuse, NY at the Grant Auditorium of the Syracuse University College of Law, published in Federal Register, November 16, 2010. Agenda
Nov. 8-10, 2011: Review Committee Meeting to be held in Reno, NV at the National Judicial College, published in Federal Register, March 4, 2011. Agenda
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