Research Associate, Anthropology Department
Indiana University
Biography: Julie Hollowell (Ph.D. Indiana University 2004) is a cultural anthropologist coming out of Indiana University’s innovative Archaeology and Social Context Program. Julie holds an MS in Education and taught for a decade at Harmony School in Bloomington, Indiana. For four summers she served as crew chief for archaeological excavations in the Inupiat village of Wales, the northwestern most point of the Americas. Her research interests focus on multiple claims on the material and intellectual past; archaeological ethnography; subsistence digging and the antiquities market; and the repatriation of knowledge, materials, and research directives to source communities. Julie is a Research Associate with Indiana University’s Center for Archaeology in the Public Interest and Schaenan Visiting Scholar at the Prindle Institute for Ethics, DePauw University (Indiana) for the 2008-09 academic year. She co-chairs the Committee on Ethics of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), which is looking toward developing a framework for ethical decision-making in archaeology that incorporates guidelines for inter-cultural and inter-national research. She is co-editor (with George Nicholas) of Research Handbooks in Archaeology (published by Left Coast Press), a series of comprehensive volumes covering various archaeological subfields, distinctively global in scope and with a strong emphasis on research ethics. Julie is also guest curator (with William Fitzhugh) of Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait, an exhibition being organized by Princeton University Art Museum and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which addresses the ethics of collecting, display, and commodification of archaeological art. She has two daughters, loves biking, hiking, mushroom hunting and hiding in tall grass, and doesn’t currently believe in pets.
