Abstract This article explores the role of mentorship in structuring students’ decisions to pursue career paths in archaeology, both within and outside academia. Based on recent survey data administered to the Society for California Archaeology membership, I consider the demographic makeup of mentors and mentees, a diachronic analysis of mentor and mentee relationships, quantitative and qualitative responses to individual experiences with mentors, and the ways in which gender and race/ethnicity play out in the context of these relationships over time. Results indicate that greater disparities exist in mentoring relationships involving women and racial/ethnic minorities—disparities that have persisted since the founding of North American archaeology and continue to the present day. The cause for these disjunctions may originate from a lack of diversity in potential mentors within academia.

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性别、种族和导师制：加州考古学的视角

摘要 本文探讨了导师在构建学生在学术界内外追求考古学职业道路的决定中的作用。根据最近向加州考古学会会员管理的调查数据，我考虑了导师和学员的人口构成、导师和学员关系的历时分析、对导师个人经历的定量和定性反应，以及性别和随着时间的推移，种族/民族会在这些关系的背景下发挥作用。结果表明，在涉及女性和种族/少数民族的指导关系中存在更大的差异——这种差异自北美考古学成立以来一直存在并持续至今。