Summary

Specializations and research interests

• Historical w88 of the American West
• Social theory, power relations, structure and agency, identity, landscapes
• Industrial w88 and company towns
• Indigenous historical w88 and heritages, broadly defined
• Cultural heritage and cultural resource management (CRM)
• Decolonizing methods and collaborative w88

Ongoing research

• Collaborative w88 and heritage preservation projects in service to Great Basin Tribes.
• Developing recommendations for improved tribal-federal relations regarding heritage consultation
• Landscape w88 and historic preservation in the Reno/Tahoe area
• Developing recommendations for decolonizing methods

Teaching

• ANTH 202 w88
• ANTH 442a/642a Historical w88
• ANTH 442b/642b Industrial w88
• ANTH 448/646 w88 Field School
• ANTH 705 Graduate Seminar in w88
• ANTH 706 Seminar in Anthropological Problems: w88 of Power
• ANTH 706 Seminar in Anthropological Problems: Historical w88

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 w88 (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 w88'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 w88 at the Stewart Indian School. w88 casino Press.
• 2011 Cowie, Sarah E.The Plurality of Power: An w88 of Industrial Capitalism. New York: Springer.

Special Journal Issue:

• (In Preparation) Pacheco, S., Britt, K., Casimiro, T., and Cowie, S. (Eds.). “w88, Activism, and Protest.” Special Issue ofInternational Journal of Historical w88.

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.). “w88, Activism, and Protest.” Special Issue ofInternational Journal of Historical w88.
• (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.). “w88, Activism, and Protest.” Special Issue ofInternational Journal of Historical w88.
• 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 w88 at Stewart Indian School. w88 casino Press: Reno.

Professional Memberships

• American Anthropological Association (AAA)
• Society for American w88 (SAA)
• Society for Historical w88 (SHA)
• Society for Industrial Archeology (SIA)
• w88 casino State Board of Museums and History (2013-2023)
• Editorial Board Member for theInternational Journal of Historical w88

Education

• Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2008-2009
• Ph.D., Anthropology (w88 and sociocultural anthropology), University of Arizona, 2008
• M.S., Industrial w88, Michigan Technological University, 1996
• B.A., w88, Mount Holyoke College, 1994