Linda K. Watts

Linda K. Watts has been a part of the University of Colorado community since 1992, and she recently retired and relocated to New York. She has published The Social Semiotics of Relational Terminology at Zuni Pueblo (Mellen Press, 2000) and several articles and book reviews. Her BA in English is from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, her MA in linguistics from the State University of New York Center at Buffalo, and her PhD in anthropology from Arizona State University. She has been the recipient of the UCCS Committee on Research and Creative Works Research Grant, the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Basic Research Grant and a Museum of Northern Arizona Research Internship. She has been involved with several ethnographic studies focused on Zuni Pueblo social organization and kinship terminology, Native American substance dependency research, and "life paths," a study of cultural schemas associated with managing life's transitions. Her research interests include Native American studies, cultural models, life course studies, and linguistics and ethnographic field work