Nancy Owen Lewis

Bio: Nancy Owen Lewis served as director of scholar programs at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) from 1998–2011 and is currently a scholar-in-residence at SAR. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Massachusetts and subsequently taught anthropology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the University of Arkansas. Her publications include A Peculiar Alchemy: A Centennial History of SAR, coauthored with Kay Hagan (SAR Press).