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In her scholarship, Dr. Tiffany Fryer draws on techniques from across anthropology, archaeology, and history to investigate the durabilities of colonialism and other forms of political violence, and how they inform present day political consciousness and imaginations of the future. She is committed to operationalizing public history to meet social justice needs, to working collaboratively with local communities, and to envisioning a praxis of heritage as liberation.

She teaches and researches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan where she is also a curator of historical and contemporary archaeology in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA). After finishing her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, she held a Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Society of Fellows for the Liberal Arts at Princeton, where she also lectured in the Anthropology Department and Humanities Council. She has a number of ongoing research projects but her primary fieldwork is based in Quintana Roo, Mexico where she helps facilitate a community heritage initiative called the "Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project."