Marianne Stoller, cultural anthropologist, ethnohistorian, and archaeologist of the American Southwest, passed away on 13 December 2015 in Colorado Springs. Stoller was a founding member and impactful teacher in the Anthropology Department at Colorado College (CC), where she taught for twenty-nine years and also cofounded the Southwest Studies program, the first regional interdisciplinary program in the country.
As she grew up in the small southern Colorado town of San Luis in the San Luis Valley, the seeds of Stoller’s anthropological curiosity were sown in a beautiful, complex landscape. Attending the San Luis Valley’s best four-year college, Adams State College in Alamosa, Stoller graduated in 1949 with a BA in art. She went on to receive her master’s degree in anthropology at the University of Denver in 1955, focusing on the anthropology of Oceania. Stoller was a Fulbright Scholar from 1951 to 1952, traveling to New Zealand to study Maori artwork,...
