Lee Panich is an archaeologist and historical anthropologist. In his research and teaching, he uses a combination of archaeological, ethnographic, and archival data to examine the long-term interactions between California’s Indigenous societies and colonial institutions, particularly the mission system. He has conducted investigations of Native life at various colonial-era sites, including Mission Santa Clara. On these projects, he has been fortunate to partner with members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and other Native Californian communities, scholars from a range of institutions, as well as numerous students and colleagues from SCU. Among other publications, Lee is the author of Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California (2020).
- Anthropology 2: Introduction to Archaeology
- Anthropology 4: Vanished Peoples and Lost Civilizations
- Anthropology 114: Senior Seminar
- Anthropology 146: Anthropological Perspectives on Colonial California
- Anthropology 148: Historical Archaeology
- Anthropology 149: Virtual Santa Clara - History and Culture
- Anthropology 195: Field Course in Anthropological Methods
- Anthropology 196: Archaeological Methods and Theory
- Honors 20: Difficult Dialogues - Native People and the California Missions
Selected Publications:
Panich, Lee M., Gustavo Flores, Michael Wilcox, and Monica V. Arellano. 2024. “Reading Colonial Transitions: Archival Evidence and the Archaeology of Indigenous Action in Nineteenth-Century California.” American Antiquity 89 (3): 495–511.
Panich, Lee M., Monica V. Arellano, Michael Wilcox, Gustavo Flores, and Samuel Connell. 2024. “Fighting Erasure and Dispossession in theSan Francisco Bay Area: Putting Archaeology to Work for the Muwekma OhloneTribe.” Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 3: 1394106.
Panich, Lee M. 2022. “Archaeology, Indigenous Erasure, and the Creation of White Public Space at the California Missions.” Journal of Social Archaeology 22 (2): 149-171.
Schneider, Tsim D., and Lee M. Panich, eds. 2022. Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Panich, Lee M., and Sara L. Gonzalez, eds. 2021. Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas. London: Routledge.
Panich, Lee M., Mark Hylkema, and Tsim D. Schneider. 2021. “Points of Contention: Tradition, Resistance, and Arrow Points in the California Missions.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 64: 101366.
Panich, Lee M. 2020. Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Panich, Lee M., and Tsim D. Schneider. 2019. “Categorical Denial: Evaluating Post-1492 Indigenous Erasure in the Paper Trail of American Archaeology.” American Antiquity 84 (4): 651–688.
Panich, Lee M., Ben Griffin, and Tsim D. Schneider. 2018. “Native Acquisition of Obsidian in Colonial-Era Central California: Implications from Mission San José.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 50: 1–11.