Darby C. Stapp

Darby C. Stapp (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1991) is the owner of Northwest Anthropology LLC, a small cultural-assessment business in Richland, Washington, which he started in 2009 following retirement from Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He has spent his professional career in the Pacific Northwest, where he has focused on American Indian ethnohistory and heritage management. Since 1991, he has worked with Plateau Tribes to address protection of sacred sites and traditional-use areas. He has published widely on tribal issues and coauthored two books: Tribal Cultural Resource Management: the Full Circle to Stewardship (2001), and Avoiding Archaeological Disasters: A Risk Management Approach (2009). He was program chair for the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Seattle in 2011 and has served as co-editor of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology since 2007.