As evidence to the power of these experiences, “the Diggers” continue to schedule reunions to this day. This process took years, and each time the CC teams of students and college alumni returned to the site, they would find new structural foundations, boundaries, artifacts - piecing history together, piece-by-piece. Working in La Cienega, New Mexico, at a site not far from a trailer park, Stoller and her teams helped unearth the largest 17th century Spanish colonial settlement in New Mexico. Leading summer digs throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Stoller and her students helped uncover some truly astonishing pieces of regional history. In 1980, she received tenure.Ī huge part of Stoller’s legacy is rooted in dirt, in digging. As a result, in 1979, Stoller was made a full-time member of the faculty as an associate professor. Teaching an average of seven and a half blocks a year as an adjunct professor, as well as working with advisees and senior thesis students, Stoller went well beyond the requirements of a part-time faculty member. Soon, though, her prolific research, departmental involvement, and teaching mandated a change in status.
Stoller first arrived at Colorado College in 1969, joining the Anthropology Department on a part-time basis. From the east coast, she migrated back towards the mountain west, her first and true home. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Her time in Tahiti would set the tone for the rest of her professional career, as it was there that Stoller first became interested in the ethnographic history - the study of people in historic times. During her time at DU, Stoller was a Fulbright Scholar from 1951-52, traveling to New Zealand to study Maori artwork, as well as to Fiji and Tahiti. She went on to receive her master’s degree in anthropology at the University of Denver in 1955, focusing on the anthropology of Oceania. Attending the San Luis Valley’s best four-year college, Adams State College in Alamosa, Stoller graduated in 1949 with her B.A. Growing up in the small southern Colorado town of San Luis in the San Luis Valley, the seeds of Stoller’s anthropological curiosity were sown in a beautiful, complex landscape. What follows here is a small celebration of her life and work, part of a larger testament to her influence, enjoyment, and lifelong love of learning. Throughout her long association with CC, Stoller had a profound impact on thousands of students, faculty, and staff. All of us at Colorado College were deeply saddened to learn of her Dec.
She taught in Colorado College’s Anthropology Department for 29 years. Marianne Stoller was the most rare of teachers, doing all that and much more. Not everyone can impart passion, change lives, and cultivate lifelong curiosity. Anyone can write a paper, even construct a syllabus. It takes a rare kind of dedication and passion to be a true teacher.
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