Pasadena College (1960-64) B.A. in Sociology
California State College at Los Angeles (Fall 1964) Anthropology
University of California Los Angeles (Spring 1965) Anthropology
University of Arizona (1965-69) M.A. in Anthropology
University of Arizona (1972) Ph.D. in Anthropology
University of Oklahoma (Summer 1967) Linguistics
University of California San Diego-Extension (Spring 1970) Linguistics
University of Salzburg* (Summer 1979) Linguistics
University of New Mexico* (Summer 1995) Linguistics

Dissertation Title
The Phonological Hierarchy of the White Mountain Dialect of Western Apache

II. TEACHING POSITIONS AND RANKS HELD Top

University of Arizona Research Assistant (1965-1967) Anthropology
University of Arizona Teaching Assistant (1967-1968) Anthropology
San Diego State University Assistant Professor (1969-1973) Anthropology
San Diego State University Associate Professor (1974-1990) Anthropology
San Diego State University Professor (1990-2005) Anthropology
San Diego State University Chair (2003-Present) Anthropology
San Diego State University Professor Emeritus (2005-Present) Anthropology

Anthropology 101 Human Bio-Cultural Origins
Anthropology 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology 303 Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology 303 History of Anthropological Theory
Anthropology 304 Principles of Anthropological Linguistics
Anthropology 350 World Ethnography
Anthropology 410 Language in Culture
Anthropology 445 Ethnology of North America
Anthropology 446 Southwestern Ethnology
Anthropology 511 Field Methods in Linguistics
Anthropology 583 Kinship and Social Organization
Anthropology 603 Seminar in Ethnology
Anthropology 604 Seminar in Linguistics
Anthropology 621 Seminar in Language and Cognition
Indian Studies 110 American Indian Heritage
Indian Studies 445 Indians Through Film and Television

IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Top

A. Publications: Top

Articles or Chapters:

1966 "The Pima-Papago Educational Population: A Census and Analysis." Journal of American Indian Education,Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-24. (with Harland Padfield and Peter Hemingway)

1971 "Playing Card Names in Western Apache." International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 37,No.3, pp.195-196.

1973 "Cultural Conservatism As An Inhibitor of Linguistic Change: A Possible Apache Case." International Journal of American Linguistics,Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 98-104.

1978 "Some Special Phonological Characteristics of the White Mountain Dialect of Apachean." Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 150-157.

1984 "A Treatment for Stress in Apache." International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 105-111.

1986 "What is Grey, Brown, Pink and Sometimes Purple: The Range of 'Wild-Card' Color Terms." American Anthropologist, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 908-916.

1989 "Apache Masks." In Gods Among Us: American Indian Masks, pp. 87-98, 111-114. Ross Coates, ed. San Diego: Department of American Indian Studies, San Diego State University.

1991 "Western Apache." In Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. I, Timothy J. O'Leary and David Levinson, eds. pp. 371-373. Boston: G.K.Hall & Co.

1994 "Introduction." In Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apaches by Greenville Goodwin. Reissued. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (With Elizabeth A. Brandt and Bonnie Lewis)

1996 "Self, Family, and Community in White Mountain Apache Society." Ethos Vol. 23, No. 3, pp.490-509.

1999 "Some Special Morphological Characteristics of the White Mountain Dialect of Western Apache." Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 356-381

2001"Escape From Albuquerque: An Apache Memorate." American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 47-71.

2002 "Introduction." In An Apache Odyssey by Morris Opler. Reissued. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

1974 Review of "Chumash Fishing Equipment," Ethnic Technology Notes No. 9, San Diego Museum of Man, by Robert L. Hoover; and "A Rabbitskin Blanket from San Diego County", Ethnic Technology Notes No. 10, San Diego Museum of Man, by Ken Hedges. Journal of San Diego History Vol. 20, No. 2, p. 58.

1975 Review of "Foundations of Linguistics," by Franklin C. Southworth and Chandler J. Daswani. American Anthropologist Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 440-442.

1976 Review of "Apachean Culture History and Ethnology," edited by Keith H. Basso and Morris E. Opler. American Anthropologist Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 663-665.

1982 Review of "Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self & Self Life," by Michelle Z. Rosaldo. American Anthropologist Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 222-224.

1984 Review of film "Letter from an Apache," by Barbara Wilk. American Anthropologist Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 1060-1061.

1985 Review of "Childhood and Folklore: A Psychoanalytic Study of Apache Personality," by L. Bryce Boyer. American Indian Quarterly Vol. 8, No.1, pp. 64-67.

1987 Review of "The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846-1970," by Veronica E. Tiller. American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 119-121.

1988 Review of "Massacre on the Gila," by Clifton B. Kroeber and Bernard L. Fontana. American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 112-115.

1994 Review of "Women of the Apache Nation," by Henrietta Stockel. American Indian Culture and Research JournalVol. 18, No. 1, pp. 228-232.

1994 "The Scoop on Geronimo ." The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter XIII:1:6.

1997 Review of "Wisdom Sits in Places," by Keith H. Basso. American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 359-362.

1998 Review of "Handbook of North American Indians, Languages, Vol. 17," edited by Ives Goddard. Ethnohistory Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 585-587.

1999 Review of "Scattered Round Stones" by David Yetman. Journal of San Diego History Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 121-123.

2003 Review of “Prayer on Top of the Earth,” by Kay Parker Schweinforth. American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 27, No. 2, 138-141.

2005 Review of “The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe,” by Helge Ingstad. American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 29, No. 2, 121-1234.

1972 "Cultural Conservatism as an Inhibitor of Linguistic Change: A Possible Apache Case." 71st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 29-Dec. 3, Toronto, Canada.

1980 "Evolutionary Change in the Athapaskan Color Term System." Symposium on Athapaskan Comparative Linguistics and Language Planning, July 7-10, 1980, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

1983 "Apache[ibaah:Evidence of Saturation as an Independent Parameter in Color Terms." 58th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Dec. 27-30, Minneapolis.

1985 "Edward H. Spicer: Linguistic Anthropologist." 84th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Dec. 4-8, Washington, D.C.

1993 "Self, Family, and Community in White Mountain Apache Society." 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov. 17-21, Washington, DC


Some of Phil's Apache Friends

C. Work in Progress: Top

Research on White Mountain Apache puberty ceremony gift exchanges, wakes, marriage patterns, and Spanish loan words.

D. Awards, Grants, and Honors: Top

1964 Graduated magna cum laude Pasadena College.

1968 Elected associate member Society of the Sigma XI, national scientific research association.

1968 Comins Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

1968 Doris Duke Foundation Grant.

1968-69 University of Arizona Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

1973 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Arizona.

1977 Summer Faculty Fellowship, San Diego State University.

1980 American Philosophical Society, Phillips Fund Grant for Summer Research.

1982 San Diego State Affirmative Action Faculty Development Program Mini-Grant.

1982 Selected "most influential university professor" by Outstanding Anthropology Graduate for 1982.

1985 Selected "most influential university professor" by Outstanding Anthropology Graduate for 1985.

1986 San Diego State College of Arts and Letters Research Grant.

1989 Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, SDSU.

1965 Indian education in southern Arizona, for Bureau of Ethnic Research, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

1966 Papago (O'odham) Ethnoscience Project, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

1968-69 White Mountain Apache phonology, dissertation.

Additional research on Western Apache linguistics and ethnography for various periods of time in 1970,1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989,1990, 1992,1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2001.

American Anthropological Association
Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

1974 Referee for University of Arizona Press

1976 Consulting reviewer of An Introduction to Language Second Edition for Holt, Rinehart and Winston

1976 Referee for Human Organization

1977 Referee for Human Organization

1979 Referee for American Anthropologist

1980 Referee for Human Organization

1980 Consultant to novelist John Willett

1981 Referee for National Endowment for the Humanities

1981 Linguistic consultant for Vol. 10, Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution Press

1984 Referee for American Anthropologist

1986 Consulting reviewer for an introductory cultural anthropology text for Dorsey Press

1986 Referee for American Indian Culture and Research Journal

1987 Referee for University of Oklahoma Press

1988 Referee for University of Arizona Press

1989 Referee for National Endowment for the Humanities

1994 Referee for National Science Foundation

1996 Referee for National Science Foundation

1997 Referee for National Science Foundation

1997 Referee for University of Nebraska press

1998 Referee for National Science Foundation

1998 Referee for American Indian Culture and Research Journal

1999 Referee for National Science Foundation

2000 Referee for National Science Foundation

2000 Referee for University of Nebraska press

2002 Referee for National Science Foundation

2003 Referee for Southwestern Journal of Linguistics

2005 Referee for American Indian Culture and Research Journal

2005 Referee for University of Nebraska press

2005 Referee for Thompson-Wadsworth Publishers

Structural and analytic knowledge of Western Apache.

Limited conversational and reading knowledge of Spanish.