Our Mission and Vision
Mission
The mission of the Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation is to honor and further the legacy and life works of Edward H. and Rosamond Spicer in the fields of anthropology, community development and, social justice.
Vision
The foundation will encourage and support research and projects based on the content and substance to be found in the Spicer Archives located in the Arizona State Museum Library Archives.
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Edward H. Spicer dedicated his life as a scientist, teacher and practitioner to anthropological research on the human condition and its response to the forces (planned or unplanned) of change. Dr. Spicer was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.
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Rosamond B. Spicer, an anthropologist in her own right, contributed in many unheralded ways to support and encourage these efforts. Along with her husband, she helped build a legacy that is now housed in the Spicer Archives in the Arizona State Museum Library.
"I admired Spicer above all as a teacher. He was an interesting and well prepared lecturer, but it could perhaps be said of him that he was too well prepared. He will be remembered by future generations above all for his masterly ethno historical work, Cycles of Conquest,"
Dr. William Y. Adams | Spicer Student
Mini Grants
The Spicer Foundation started a mini grant program which launched in 2015 after we obtained our 501(c)3 tax exempt status. We awarded grants annually for a total of 4 years starting out with one $500 recipient and doubled the amount of our grant making to $1,000 in 2017
This video was created as a promotional piece for the foundation and it was shown during a reception for the Edward H. and Rosamond B. Spicer Foundation at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Alburquerque New Mexico in March 2014.