Elizabeth Brumfiel is an American archaeologist who teaches at Northwestern University. She is a former president of the American Anthropological Association. Northwestern University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, U.S.. Northwesterns main campus is a 240-acre (970,000 m²) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of Lake Michigan. ... American Anthropological Association (AAA) was founded in 1902 and claims to be, the worlds largest professional organization of individuals interested in anthropology. Although there were several other American anthropological societies in existence at the turn of the 20th century, this new, national organization was formed to promote the science...

Brumfiel has conducted an archaeological project at the site of Xaltocan in Mexico since 1987. Her publications focus on gender, political economy, and the relationship between these areas of scholarship. She also works to show how archaeology, as an academic discipline, is connected to other fields of anthropology and to other disciplines such as gender studies and political science.

David Horowitz mentions Brumfiel as one of the most "dangerous" academics in the United States in his book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. His assessment was based on the American Anthropological Association's stance on unions and an untrue assertion that the AAA had opposed the Iraq War during Brumfiel's tenure as president. David Joel Horowitz (born January 10, 1939) is an American conservative writer and activist. ...