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What Does “SRI” Stand For? A Brief History of the SRI Foundation
In 1983, Jeff and Debbie Altschul created Statistical Research, Inc., a for-profit cultural resource management firm headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. The acronym for Jeff and Debbie’s company is “SRI.” Since establishing SRI, Jeff and Debbie have seen the cultural resource management (CRM) field grow into a mature discipline, assisting agencies and private companies to comply with federal and state historic preservation laws and regulations.
By 2000, however, Jeff observed that cultural resource management efforts could only go so far in advancing our knowledge and appreciation of the past, given limitations in project funding and scope. As a result, data and materials generated by countless CRM projects remain an untapped source of significant information on the past. Jeff also felt that universities and colleges were not sufficiently preparing the historic preservation professionals of the future, nor were there good opportunities for current professionals to enhance and improve their own historic preservation expertise. Finally, compliance-related projects have generally ignored the true benefactors of our nation’s historic preservation laws: the public. Jeff recognized the need to more fully engage the public in all aspects of historic preservation.
The key to the future is advancing our knowledge and appreciation of the past, educating and training future and current historic preservation professionals, and engaging and reaching out to the public. Accomplishing these goals is not easy within the confines of the CRM business world. Jeff and Debbie felt that only a nonprofit organization could fulfill these goals in a comprehensive and unified manner. So, using funds from their own company, Jeff and Debbie created in 2001 a nonprofit historic preservation foundation, with the mission to “advance education, training, public outreach, and research in all fields of historic preservation - archaeology, anthropology, history, and historic architecture.” Recognizing its origins, this new organization was named the SRI Foundation.
Stacey K. Chambliss, M.A.
Volunteer Services Coordinator and Webmaster, Passport in Time Clearinghouse
Biography
Areas of
Expertise: Ceramic analysis, Iron Age prehistoric archaeology, and collections, database and website management.
David
Cushman, M.A., RPA
Program Manager, Historic Preservation Programs
Biography
Areas of
Expertise: NHPA, regional, state, and local government historic preservation
planning
Matt Dawson, M.S.
Program Manager, Passport in Time Clearinghouse
Biography
Areas of
Expertise: Archaeometallurgy, lithic analysis, collections management, cultural resource management, Bronze Age/Iron Age prehistoric archaeology
Martha Graham, Ph.D.
Program Manager, Historic Preservation Programs
Biography
Areas
of Expertise: NAGPRA; consultation with indigenous and other descent communities; mediation/conflict resolution for heritage preservation issues
Terry
H. Klein, M.A.,
RPA
Executive Director
Biography
Areas
of Expertise: National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)
and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance, historical
archaeology, and the business of CRM
Lynne
Sebastian, Ph.D., RPA
Director, Historic Preservation Programs
Biography
Areas of
Expertise: continuing professional education, NHPA, historic
preservation compliance issues and expert testimony, and the archaeology
of the Southwest
Carla
Van West, Ph.D., RPA
Director, Preservation Research Programs
Biography
Areas of
Expertise: Public
archaeology, prehistory of the U.S. Southwest, paleoenvironmental
reconstruction, subsistence and settlement systems
Jeffrey
H. Altschul, Ph.D., RPA
President, SRI Foundation Board of Directors
Biography
Director, SRI Foundation Board of Directors
Biography
Director, SRI Foundation Board of Directors
Biography
Director, SRI Foundation Board of Directors
Biography
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