Lucas Bessire

Lucas Bessire is an American anthropologist and filmmaker. He is a professor of anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines, and is best known for his work with the Ayoreo indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco region as well as the 2021 book Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains, which won the George Perkins Marsh Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.