Daniel J. Gelo is Professor of Anthropology, Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences and Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and since 2004 has served as dean of UTSA’s College of Liberal and Fine Arts (COLFA). Gelo joined the faculty at UTSA in 1988 after receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rutgers University and has written extensively on the expressive and religious culture of American Indians of the Southern Plains and Texas. His publications include Comanche Vocabulary (University of Texas Press, 1995), Comanches in the New West, 1896-1908 (with Stanley Noyes, University of Texas Press, 1999), Texas Indian Trails (with Wayne L. Pate, Republic of Texas Press, 2003), and three song books for guitar and mandolin. Gelo also contributed to the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Contemporary Indians of Texas Film Series, acting as a researcher and co-author for Circle of Life: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians (1991); Big City Trail: The Urban Indians of Texas (1992); and People of the Sun: The Tiguas of Ysleta (1992). Dr. Gelo is a recipient of the President's Distinguished Achievement Award for Creative Activity and the Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award.
From the guide to the Daniel J. Gelo Papers UA 99. 0016., 1977-2009, (University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections)
