B.A., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1970.
Ph.D., Anthropology, Columbia University, 1979.

Review Committee for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1992-1997.
Working group on "Human Societies as Complex Adaptive Systems," Santa Fe Institute, 1988-1999.
Task Force on Anthropology and the Environment, Chair, 1991, Steering Committee Member, 1992-1995.
Vice President, Council on Museum Anthropology, 1996-1997, Advisory Board, Human Relations Area Files, Prehistory Database, 1996-present.
American Association of Museums, Museum Assessment Program, Museum Accredition Program, 1991-present.

Evolution of political systems with a focus on the archaeology of the southwestern United States.

Haas is an anthropological archaeologist, with over 30 years of field experience in both North and South America. His interests include the origins of war, the archaeology of the Southwest and Peru, the evolution of complex society and museum anthropology. Haas has been at the Field Museum for 13 years and been involved with development of numerous temporary and permanent exhibits, including Chocolate. He is currently the lead curator for the Ancient Americas exhibit which is the first step in redeveloping the Museum's Halls of the Americas. He has curatorial responsibility for the ethnographic and archaeological collections of North America and the archaeological collections of South America.


Haas is actively seeking graduate students with interests in Andean South America, the origins of complex societies, and the archaeology of warfare.