Isabel T. Kelly has headed field expeditions in the southwestern United States, Mexico, Bolivia, and Pakistan during her nearly fifty-year career in archaeology and anthropology. After receiving a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley in 1932, she began ethnographic research among the Southern Paiute and Coast Miwok Indians of California. Other fieldwork during the 1930s included the Hodges Ruin excavation in Tucson, and applied anthropology projects in West Mexico. In 1940, Dr. Kelly moved to Mexico, where she has been involved in independent research since 1960.