Pronounshe, him, his, his, himself

Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleAssociate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationAmerican Indian Resource Center
Archaeological Research Center
Legal Studies
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Kenneth S Norris Center for Natural History

Web SiteCalifornia

Primary Office LocationSocial Sciences 1
305

Office HoursWinter 2025 - By Appointment Only

Mail StopSocial Sciences 1 Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley

M.A. - University of Texas at Austin

B.A. - University of Texas at Austin 

Tsim Schneider (he/him) is a citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo) and anthropologist. Dr. Schneider studies the interactions between Indigenous peoples and colonial institutions, primarily in California. He is the author of The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California (University of Arizona Press, 2021), two edited volumes, and several journal articles, book chapters, and other writings. His current and future research examines different facets of California Indian heritage and resilience, currently represented by three interrelated projects:

• -- Investigating the resilience of California Indian peoples in colonial Marin County (ca. late-1700s to early 1900s) through collaborative Indigenous Archaeology, archival and ethnographic research, and heritage studies;
• -- Reexamining a collection of materials excavated from the “Lost Adobe” of Mission Santa Cruz in the 1980s; and, more recently,
• -- Braiding Indigenous knowledges and western science to understand the last 500 years of Native shell bead production and senses of place.

Dr. Schneider is always eager to hear from students, as well as Native American community members, who might have questions about either getting involved in research or designing a project of their own.

Research Interests

Indigenous peoples, Indigenous archaeology, archaeology, colonialism, borderlands, space/place, landscape, mobility, social memory, San Francisco Bay, California and North America

Awards, Honors and Grants

2023-2028, National Science Foundation, Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (Science and Technology Center, BCS-224328); Co-PI (Subaward #017819-9129)

2023-2025, National Science Foundation, Co-PI (SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, SMA-2313733)

2016-2020, National Science Foundation, PI (Collaborative grant, BCS-1558987 & 1559666)

2017-2018, Hellman Fellowship

2013-2015, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

2009-2010, UC Dissertation-Year Fellowship

Selected Publications

2022  Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence, ed. by TD Schneider and LM Panich. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

2021  The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse: Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

2014  Indigenous Landscapes and Spanish Missions: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ethnohistory, ed. by LM Panich and TD Schneider. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

See Google Scholar for a more (or less) complete list of publications.