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Curriculum Vitae and Job Letter, Organized Workshop at the 72Nd Annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Nashville, Tennessee ELIZABETH WATTS MALOUCHOUS Research Archaeologist and Collaborative Research Liaison Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois American Bottom Field Station, 13 Gateway Drive, Collinsville, Illinois, 62234 Phone: (618) 855-9206 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. in Anthropology Indiana University, Bloomington M.A. in Anthropology Indiana University, Bloomington B.A. in Anthropology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PUBLICATIONS Refereed Books 2021 Reconsidering Mississippian Households and Communities. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (E. Watts Malouchos and A. Betzenhauser, eds.) Refereed Journal Articles 2021 From the Mound to the Moon: Geophysical Insights into Angel Phase Landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37(2):102886. (E. Watts Malouchos, M. Schurr, and E. Herrmann) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102886 2021 Exploring Heritage Archaeology at Indiana University: Reporting on a Collaboration between Wylie House Museum and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology. Museum Anthropology Review 15(1). (C. Champion and E. Watts Malouchos) 2020 Cahokian Diaspora and Angel Ethnogenesis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27(1): 128–156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-020-09443-0 2020 Tracing the Emerald Avenue: Archaeological Investigations on a Ceremonial Road in the Greater Cahokia Region. Journal of Field Archaeology 45(5):372–393. (B. J. Skousen, T. Larson, E. Watts Malouchos, J. Kruchten, R. Barzilai, S. Alt, and T. Pauketat) https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2020.1722361 2019 Transgressive Learning Communities: Transformative Spaces for Underprivileged, Underserved, and Historically Underrepresented Graduate Students and their Institutions. Teaching and Learning Inquiry 7(2): 106–120. (L. Drane, J. Lynton, Y. Cruz- Rios, E. Watts Malouchos, and K. Kearns) https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.7.2.7 2017 Exploring New Cahokian Landscapes with Remote Sensing: Report on the Spring Lake Tract Geophysical Survey and Excavations. American Antiquity 82(4): 742–760. (S. Baires, M. Baltus, and E. Watts Malouchos) https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2017.33 2015 Investigations of the Morrison Site (11MS1548). Illinois Archaeology 27: 1–27. (A. Betzenhauser, T. Pauketat, E. Watts Malouchos, N. Lopinot, D. Marovitch) 2011 Looking for Yankeetown in Posey County. Journal of Indiana Archaeology 6(1): 12–23. (S. Alt, M. Buchanan, E. Watts) Accepted Exploring Monroe County’s Past: An Archaeological Survey of Indiana University and Sycamore Land Trust Nature Preserves. Journal of Indiana Archaeology. (E. Watts Malouchos, A. Estes, and I. Osmundsen) Refereed Book Chapters 2021 Introduction. In Reconsidering Mississippian Households and Communities, edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, pp. 1–5. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (E. Watts Malouchos and A. Betzenhauser) 2021 Reconsidering Mississippian Households and Communities in Context. In Reconsidering Mississippian Households and Communities, edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, pp. 9–31. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 1 2021 Unpacking Storage: Implications for Community-Construction during Cahokia's Mississippian Transition. In Reconsidering Mississippian Households and Communities, edited by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser, pp. 146–163. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (E. Watts Malouchos and A. Betzenhauser) Articles and Blog Posts 2020 Diasporic Connections: Cahokia and the Greater Southeast. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27(1): 1–6. (M. Baltus, S. Baires, E. Watts Malouchos, and J. Mehta) 2019 Southeastern Archaeological Mentoring Network. Horizon and Tradition: The Newsletter of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference 61(2): 20–21. (M. Buchanan, E. Watts Malouchos, S. Baires, and J. Green) 2016 “Dismantling Archaeology: Challenging Ourselves, Our Ethics, and Our Priorities.” Unstratified Archaeology: Critical Horizons in Archaeology. 31 January 2016. (J. Arjona, E. Watts Malouchos, M. Buchanan) https://unstratifiedarchaeology.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/dismantling- archaeology- challenging-ourselves-our-ethics-and-our-priorities/ GRANTS 2021 Student Cultural Programming Fee Fund; Office of Student Affairs, University of Illinois $800 Lecture Series: The Intersections of Indigenous Knowledge and Archaeology 2018 Bicentennial Project Program; Office of the Bicentennial, Indiana University $55,029 Revealing Indiana University’s Earliest Cultural Landscapes through Heritage Archaeology (with A. Sievert, C. Beam, M. Pope) 2018 Research and Travel Stipend; Norwegian Institute at Athens $2,500 Remote Sensing through Magnetic Gradiometry at the Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Gourimadi Site in the Katsaronio Plain 2017 Historic Preservation Fund; National Park Service and Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation $48, 812 Exploring Monroe County’s Past: A Survey of Indiana University Griffy Research and Teaching Preserve and Sycamore Land Trust Properties in the Bean Blossom Creek Drainage, Monroe County, Indiana 2017 Themester Programming Grant; College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University $1,380 Museum Exhibit: Mapping Indiana Territory: Exploring Indigenous and Western Representations; Panel Discussion: Negotiating Homelands and Sovereignty in Indiana Territory 2014 E. A. Schrader Grant for Archaeological Field Research in Classical Archaeology; Indiana University $1,800 An Archaeology of Visibility of the Katsaronian Plain 2013-2014 Research and Travel Stipend; Norwegian Institute at Athens $2,515 From the Midwest to the Mediterranean: Crossing and Questioning Archaeological Boundaries 2013 E. A. Schrader Grant for Archaeological Field Research in Classical Archaeology; Indiana University $2,250 Comparative Analyses of Survey Methodologies and Site Definitions 2012 E. A. Schrader Grant for Archaeological Field Research in Classical Archaeology; Indiana University $4,000 Comparative Analyses of Ceramic Methodologies FELLOWSHIPS 2015-2016 Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology Dissertation Research Fellowship Indiana University 2015, 2016 Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology Summer Research Fellowship Indiana University $2,000 2 2015 David C. Skomp Dissertation Field Work Fellowship Indiana University $2,550 2013-2014 Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology Dissertation Research Fellowship Indiana University 2013 Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology Summer Research Fellowship Indiana University $3,000 2013 David C. Skomp Dissertation Feasibility Study Fellowship Indiana University $1,900 AWARDS 2020 Bicentennial Medal; Office of the Bicentennial, Indiana University 2018 Discretionary Bonus Award for Exceptional Performance; Vice President for Research, Indiana University 2016 Outstanding Associate Instructor Award; Department of Anthropology, Indiana University 2016 Graduate and Professional Student Organization Travel Award; Indiana University 2013 Award for Outstanding Contribution; World Archaeological Congress 7th Annual Meeting 2009, 2013-16 David Skomp Travel Award; Department of Anthropology, Indiana University 2007 Charles J. Bareis Award; Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Recognition of outstanding research contributions and effort to promote Illinois archaeology. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (FIELD AND LABORATORY EXPERIENCE) 2020-pres. Research Archaeologist and Collaborative Research Liaison, University of Illinois, Illinois State Archaeological Survey 2016-2020. Research Scientist, Indiana University, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology 2016 Field Supervisor, Institute of Field Research Field School at Cahokia Mounds, St. Clair County, IL. 2015-2016 Principal Investigator, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology; Creating Community in Southwestern Indiana: Investigating Mississippian Communities of Practice at the Stephan-Steinkamp Site, Posey County, Indiana 2014-2015 Magnetometry Consultant and Archaeological Technician, University of Illinois and Indiana University; Emerald Acropolis Project, St. Clair County, Illinois 2015 Magnetometry Consultant, University of Illinois; Collins Site 2015 GIS and Magnetometry Consultant, Indiana University; John Chapman Site 2015 Magnetometry Consultant, University of Toledo; Copper Mound Site 2015 Magnetometry Consultant, Eastern Connecticut University; Cahokia Mounds 2012-2014 Field Director, Indiana University and the Norwegian Institute at Athens; Norwegian Archaeological Survey of the Karystia 2013-2014 Site and Laboratory Director, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology; Investigating Yankeetown Communal Identities Through Magnetometry and Targeted Excavations at the Stephan-Steinkamp Site, Posey County, Indiana 2009-2012 Laboratory Director, Indiana University; Solving the Mystery of Yankeetown Project, Principal Investigator Dr. Susan Alt 2012 Ceramic Analyst, Greek Ministry of Culture and the Southern Euboea Exploration Project: Ayia Triada Cave Project, Project Directors Dr. Zarko Tankosic and Dr. Fanis Mavridis 2011 Research Assistant, Indiana University; Comingled Remains at the Yokem Mound Group, Project Director Dr. Della Cook 2011 Field Director, Indiana University Field School; Solving the Mystery of Yankeetown 2011 Field Technician, Indiana University; Warfare and the Materialization of Daily Life at the Mississippian Common Field Site, Missouri 2011 Survey Technician, Indiana University; Ford Mound Geophysical Survey, St. Clair County, Illinois 2010 Crew Chief, Indiana
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