Summary
Specializations and research interests
- Historical archaeology of the American West
- Social theory, power relations, structure and agency, identity, landscapes
- Industrial archaeology and company towns
- Indigenous historical archaeology and heritages, broadly defined
- Cultural heritage and cultural resource management (CRM)
- Decolonizing methods and collaborative archaeology
Ongoing research
- Collaborative archaeology and heritage preservation projects in service to Great Basin Tribes.
- Developing recommendations for improved tribal-federal relations regarding heritage consultation
- Landscape archaeology and historic preservation in the Reno/Tahoe area
- Developing recommendations for decolonizing methods
Teaching
- ANTH 202 Archaeology
- ANTH 442a/642a Historical Archaeology
- ANTH 442b/642b Industrial Archaeology
- ANTH 448/646 Archaeology Field School
- ANTH 705 Graduate Seminar in Archaeology
- ANTH 706 Seminar in Anthropological Problems: Archaeology of Power
- ANTH 706 Seminar in Anthropological Problems: Historical Archaeology
Selected external grants and awards
- 2022-2023 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium in Dresden, Germany. American Chair for the symposium (co-chaired with Japan and Germany).
- 2020-2022 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, California, USA.
- 2019 Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award (first place). Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). Awarded to the Collaborative Stewart Indian School Project.
- 2018-2019 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium in Kyoto, Japan.
- 2016 Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Japanese-American Frontiers of Science Symposium in Irvine, California, USA.
- 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House, Executive Office of the President.
- 2016 Inductee, Academy of Sciences and Arts, Michigan Technological University.
- 2013 Society for Historical Archaeology's John L. Cotter Award (early career award).
Peer-reviewed publications
Books:
- (under review) Machado, Lisa, and Sarah E. Cowie. Beer Garden, Catholic Hospital, and Indigenous Presence: Complicated Site Components in an American Mining Boomtown.
- 2019 Cowie, Sarah E., Diane L. Teeman, and Christopher C. LeBlanc, Editors. Collaborative Archaeology at the Stewart Indian School. University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä Press.
- 2011 Cowie, Sarah E. The Plurality of Power: An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism. New York: Springer.
Special Journal Issue:
- (In Preparation) Pacheco, S., Britt, K., Casimiro, T., and Cowie, S. (Eds.). “Archaeology, Activism, and Protest.” Special Issue of International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Recent, Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
- (under review) Cowie, Sarah E. and Britt, Kelly M. Unpacking the Future: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit Toward Activist Archaeologies. In: Pacheco, S., Britt, K., Casimiro, T., and Cowie, S. (Eds.). (n.d.). “Archaeology, Activism, and Protest.” Special Issue of International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
- (accepted with minor revisions) Cowie, Sarah E., with contributions by Patrick Burtt, Michon Eben, Diane Teeman. By whose authority? A settler archaeologist’s approach to relinquishing control in Indigenous and collaborative archaeologies. In: Pacheco, S., Britt, K., Casimiro, T., and Cowie, S. (Eds.). (n.d.). “Archaeology, Activism, and Protest.” Special Issue of International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
- 2022 Cowie, S. E. and D.L. Teeman. Navigating Entanglements and Mitigating Intergenerational Trauma in Two Collaborative Projects: Stewart Indian School and “Our Ancestors’ Walk of Sorrow” Forced Removal Trail. In Tsim Schneider and Lee Panich, Eds.. Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence. pp: 265-286. The University Press of Florida: Gainesville.
- 2019 Co-authored six chapters in Sarah E. Cowie, Diane L. Teeman, and Christopher C. LeBlanc (Eds.) Collaborative Archaeology at Stewart Indian School. University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä Press: Reno.
Professional Memberships
- American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
- Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)
- Society for Industrial Archeology (SIA)
- ÁùºÏ±¦µä State Board of Museums and History (2013-2023)
- Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Historical Archaeology
Education
- Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2008-2009
- Ph.D., Anthropology (archaeology and sociocultural anthropology), University of Arizona, 2008
- M.S., Industrial Archaeology, Michigan Technological University, 1996
- B.A., Archaeology, Mount Holyoke College, 1994