Sarah E. Cowie, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Summary

Collaborative archaeology and archaeology of institutional life at Stewart Indian School, Nevada
Developing recommendations for improved tribal-federal relations regarding heritage consultation
Definitions of cultural heritage; tangible and intangible heritage
Culture contact, persistence, communities of practice; Creek farmsteads in Georgia
Archaeology of St. Mary's Hospital, Nevada: Bodily Discipline and the Politics of Health.
Archaeology of environmental injustice

2019 Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology. Awarded to the Collaborative Archaeology at Stewart Indian School project. The team includes participants from the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Anthropology; Nevada Indian Commission; Washoe Tribal Historic Preservation Office; and several Native tribes and communities in the Great Basin.
2016 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, National Academy of Sciences.
2016 Inductee, Academy of Sciences and Arts, Michigan Technological University.
2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Conferred at ceremonies in Washington D.C., May 2016. An associated grant from DoD Army Research Office: Governmentality and Social Capital in Tribal/Federal Relations Regarding Heritage Consultation.
2013 Society for Historical Archaeology's John L. Cotter Award, an early career award presented "for her research on power dynamics in a broad range of historical contexts, which has expanded the interdisciplinary reach and influence of historical archaeology." Conferred at the SHA's annual meeting (Leicester, England, January 11, 2013).1

Books:

Cowie, Sarah E., Diane L.Teeman, and Christopher C. LeBlanc, Editors.
(In Press) Collaborative Archaeology at the Stewart Indian School. University of Nevada Press.
Cowie, Sarah E.
2011 The Plurality of Power: An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism. New York: Springer.

Articles:

Cowie, Sarah E. (In preparation). Archaeology of Environmental Injustice.
Cowie, Sarah E., and Lisa Machado (Revising to resubmit to Historical Archaeology). Bodily Discipline and Healthcare in a Mining Boomtown: Archaeology of St. Mary's Hospital in Virginia City, Nevada.
Springer, Ian, and Sarah E. Cowie (In preparation). Geochemical Analysis of Landscapes in Historical Archaeology.
Cowie, Sarah E. (2015). Bridging Social Anthropology and Industrial Archaeology at a Georgia Grist Mill. North American Archaeologist 36(1):33-57.
Cowie, Sarah E. (2015). Farmstead and Universe: Early Nineteenth-Century Built Environment at the Ochillee Creek Site on Fort Benning, Georgia. Journal of Alabama Archaeology, [2012] 59(1&2):21-38.
Cowie, Sarah E. and Lisa Machado (2013). History, Technological Innovation, and Potential for Industrial Archaeology at the Old Savage Mine Site, Virginia City, Nevada. Nevada Archaeologist 26:1-15.

American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)
Society for Industrial Archeology (SIA)
Nevada State Board of Museums and History
Editorial Board Member for the International Journal of Historical Archaeology (IJHA)

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