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Edward Pasqual Dozier (born Eduardo de Pascua Dozier; 1916 in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico – 1971 in Tucson, Arizona) was a Pueblo people Native American anthropologist and linguist who studied Native Americans and the peoples of northern Luzon in the Philippines. He was the first Native American to earn a PhD in anthropology in the United States.
He was professor of anthropology and linguistics at the Tucson campus of the University of Arizona from 1960 until his death in 1971. Before taking up the position at the University of Arizona-Tucson, he held a number of other academic positions. He was an instructor in anthropology at the University of Oregon in 1951–52, and a researcher at the Wenner‐Gren Foundation in 1952–53. From 1953 to 1958 he rose from instructor to associate professor at Northwestern University. He was a research fellow at Stanford University in 1958–59 and a field researcher funded by the National Science Foundation in the Philippines in 1959–60.
At the time of his death, Dozier was helping to found the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona-Tucson.
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