Deward Walker, Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, and Associate Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, has been awarded the Bristlecone Pine Award by the HPSfAA Awards Committee. The award recognizes an individual who is distinguished for length of service
and admirable dedication to HPSfAA, whether as an officer, board member
or volunteer.
Professor Walker served as Editor for the High Plains Applied Anthropologist (now The Applied Anthropologist), the HPSfAA's professional journal, for ten years in the 1990s and 2000s. He has also served as Editor for Human Organization, Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, and numerous other publications. Dr. Walker received the High Plains Society's Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award in 1995. He remains an avid supporter of the organization, often bringing his students to the annual conference.
The Bristlecone Pine Award was first given to Merun Nasser, HPSfAA
Treasurer, at the 2008 Annual Conference for her many years of
organizational support and financial oversight for the Society. In
2009, Finance Committee Chair and Archivist Carla Littlefield received the award for
her long dedication to the Society.
