Jeanne M. Simonelli

Jeanne Simonelli is an applied cultural anthropologist, writer and weaver. Since 1978, she has learned from community colleagues in Sonora and Chiapas, Mexico; rural New York and the Southwest. Like Sherlock Holmes, she is author of a huge number of infinitely boring but scientifically significant monographs. She has published four books with good titles, Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Autonomous Development (2005); Crossing Between Worlds: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly (2008; 1997); Too Wet To Plow: The Family Farm in Transition (1992) and Two Boys, A Girl, and Enough! (1986). She co-edited Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market: Walking the Heart Path (with Katherine O’Donnell and June Nash.) Since retiring from teaching in 2013, she has spent summers wearing a Smoky-the-Bear hat as an interpretive Park Ranger at Bandelier, Pipe Spring and Canyon de Chelly National Monument, as a volunteer at Pecos National Historic Park, and doing development projects with a rebel organization in southern Mexico. She winters in Bisbee, Arizona, weaving at the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild. Her novel, Ancestral Atoms, a tale of turquoise and treachery in the southwest , will be available soon. Look for it!