Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (born 1946) is an American archaeologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...

, and Curator of Archaeology at the Field Museum from 1991 to 2002.

She graduated with distinction from Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, and from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 with a Ph.D.
She is interested in human evolution and long-term human-environment interaction. She is one of the leading American archeologists, studying Paleoindians in the Amazon basin.

Family

She is the daughter of Quentin Roosevelt II

Quentin Roosevelt II

Quentin Roosevelt II was the fourth child of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and Eleanor Butler Alexander-Roosevelt. He was the namesake of his uncle Quentin Roosevelt who was killed in action during World War I in 1918...

, and Frances Blanche Webb, and grand daughter of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

Theodore D. Roosevelt, Jr. , was an American political and business leader, a Medal of Honor recipient who fought in both of the 20th century's world wars. He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt from his second wife Edith Roosevelt...

. Her sisters are Susan Roosevelt Weld

Susan Roosevelt Weld

Susan Roosevelt Weld was formerly a professor at Harvard specializing in ancient Chinese civilization and law. She also was General Counsel to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China...

, and Alexandra Roosevelt Dworkin.

Works

• Amazonian Indians from Prehistory to the Present, University of Arizona Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8165-1436-6
• The Ancestors: Native Artisans of the Americas, Editors Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, James G. E. Smith, Museum of the American Indian, 1979, ISBN 978-0-934490-00-9
• Moundbuilders of the Amazon, Academic Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-12-595348-1
• Parmana: Manioc and Maize Subsistence along the Orinoco, Academic Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-12-595350-4
• The Excavations at Corozal, Venezuela: Stratigraphy and Ceramic Seriation, Dept. of Anthropology and The Peabody Museum, Yale University, 1997, ISBN 978-0-913516-17-1
• Ancient Lakes: Cultural and Biological Diversity, Editors Hiroya Kawanabe, George W. Coulter, Anna Curtenius Roosevelt, Kenobi Productions, 1999, ISBN 978-90-804341-2-7

External links

• UIC Anthropoly Faculty - Dr. Anna Roosevelt
• "Granddaughter: Roosevelt would say pollution is 'soiling our nest'", The University Record, Mary Jo Frank, October 29, 1996
• "Anna Curtenius Roosevelt", German Wikipedia