The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025
Time: 1 p.m., MST
Where: Highlands Center for Natural History, 1375 S. Walker Road, Prescott, AZ
Shelby Tisdale, author of No Place for a Lady: The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie, will give a presentation and sign books at Highlands Center for Natural History. Her presentation will highlight the obstacles young women faced in the early years of the development of southwest archaeology. Tisdale, retired director of the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, is an award-winning author who has published more than forty book chapters, articles, and books on Southwest Native American art and women. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public.
About the book:
In the first half of the twentieth century, the canyons and mesas of the Southwest beckoned and the burgeoning field of archaeology thrived. Among those who heeded the call, Marjorie Ferguson Lambert became one of only a handful of women who left their imprint on the study of southwestern archaeology and anthropology.
In this delightful biography, we gain insight into a time when there were few women establishing full-time careers in anthropology, archaeology, or museums. Shelby Tisdale successfully combines Lambert’s voice from extensive interviews with her own to take us on a thought-provoking journey into how Lambert created a successful and satisfying professional career and personal life in a place she loved (the American Southwest) while doing what she loved.
