Dr. Tom D. Dillehay is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University, a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, s Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, and Profesor Titular at the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has carried out numerous archaeological and anthropological projects in Peru, Chile, Argentina, other South American countries, and in the United States, England, and India. His main interests are migration, the long-term transformative processes leading to political and economic change, and the interdisciplinary and historical methodologies designed to study those processes. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in the United States and around the world and a Fulbright Scholar in Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. Dr. Dillehay has published thirty-two books and more than two hundred and fifty refereed journal articles and book chapters. He currently directs interdisciplinary projects focused on long-term human and environmental interaction on the north coast of Peru and on the political identity and cultural patrimony of the Mapuche in Chile. Professor Dillehay has received numerous international and national awards for his research, books and teaching. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.