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 Nevada 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 Nevada Press: Reno.
Professional Memberships
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 (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
