Blanket Weaving in the Southwest and Southwest Textile Database records

Ann Lane Hedlund studied with Dr. Joe Ben Wheat at the University of Colorado in 1973-74 (completing her B.A. in Anthropology in August 1974) and in 1979-1983 (completing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology in August 1983, with Wheat as her major professor; dissertation: “Contemporary Navajo Weaving: An Ethnography of a Native Craft”). During the latter period, she served as the part-time Research Assistant in the Anthropology Section at the University of Colorado Museum and worked closely with Wheat on his Southwestern textile research project. After Hedlund’s graduation and Wheat retirement, Hedlund was hired as Assistant Professor/Curator of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum, where she served from 1984-1986. Subsequently she worked as curator at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos and as assistant and associate professor of anthropology/director of museum studies at Arizona State University, Tempe. In 1997, Hedlund transferred to the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, where she served as a full professor/curator of anthropology and directed the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies on campus. Wheat died in 1997, leaving his work on Southwestern textiles incomplete and unpublished. The latter positions in Tucson allowed Hedlund to raise funds and form a team of students and specialists to assist her in compiling, editing, and publishing