Patrick D. Lyons

Patrick D. Lyons is Acting Associate Director for Planning and Review, Associate Curator, and Head of Collections at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.

He currently serves as Chair of the Society for American Archaeology's Committee on Museums, Curation and Collections and is a Research Associate at the Center for Desert Archaeology, in Tucson.

He earned his B.A. (anthropology, 1991) and his M.A. (anthropology, 1992) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. A former Emil W. Haury Graduate Fellow, he was awarded his Ph.D. (anthropology) by the University of Arizona in 2001.

His research interests include the late prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology of the U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico; Hopi ethnography, history and ethnohistory; ceramic decorative and technological style; ceramic compositional analysis; museum-collections-based research; migration; diaspora; identity; and the use of oral tradition in archaeological research.