1954
Born to William J McChesney Jr. and Susan Baldwin McChesney.
1976
Earns a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College.
1978
Earns a Master of Arts from Wesleyan University.
1991
Earns a Master of Philosophy from New York University.
2003
Earns a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University.
2004
Is an adjunct lecturer at the Visual Studies Workshop in the Dept. of Anthropology at State University of New York College at Brockport.
2005
Is a guest co-curator for the Hopi Iconography Project at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
2008
Is an adjunct instructor within the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Toledo.
2010
Is a research assistant professor within the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Toledo.
2013
Is an affiliated faculty member within the Dept. of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toledo.
2013
Is a visiting asst. professor within the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Toledo.
2014
Received the Dean’s Faculty Recognition Award within the College of Languages, Literature and Social Sciences at the University of Toledo.
2014
Is curator of ethnology at the Maxwell Museum within the University of New Mexico.
2016
Is named principal investigator and project director of the National Endowment for the Arts Imagine your Parks Art Works grant.
2016
Is named editor of the peer-reviewed journal Museum Anthropology (through 2019).
2017:
Is named principal investigator and project director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Planning Grant.
2017
Is the director of the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at the University of New Mexico.
2017
Is a research assistant professor within the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
2018
Is a member of the Association on American Indian Affairs Repatriation Working Group.
2019
Is a named a sustaining fellow by the Society for Applied Anthropology.