Brandt, Elizabeth A.

Professor of History, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University.

Elizabeth Brandt was born in Sanford, Florida, a rural farming area, in 1945.

She received her Honors B.A. with joint majors in Anthropology and German from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She spent a year and a half in Germany studying at Phillips University in Marburg/Lahn, Germany where she studied German and English literature and linguistics. Elizabeth Brandt received her M.A. in 1969 and her Ph.D. in 1970 in Anthropology and Linguistics from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Her first academic job was as Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago from 1970-1974. She came to ASU in the Fall of 1974 to the Department of Anthropology, now the School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Professor Brandt has done cooperative, collaborative community-based fieldwork with a number of Indian nations in the Southwest including the Pueblos of Sandia, Isleta, Zia, and Felipe, and Taos in New Mexico. Much of this work is the confidential property of tribal nations and is not published. She also worked in an indigenous community in Northwest Mexico in the state of Nayarit and with the Ft. McDowell Yavapai Nation, the San Carlos Apache Nation, the White Mountain Apache Nations, and the Navajo Nation. She is currently involved in work on a proposed copper mine in the Superior, Arizona area and the development of cultural interpretation for a heritage trail as part of an economic development initiative. Professor Brandt has also worked extensively with schools, teacher training, and the development of Native language materials for Acoma Pueblo, the Navajo Nation, and the San Carlos Apache Nation.