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Severin Fowles is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Barnard College, where he chairs the Anthropology Department and directs the Archaeology Track. His scholarship merges archaeological methods with Critical Indigenous Studies, Art History, Religious Studies, and New Materialist Philosophy to reimagine the history of the American West. He has directed excavations at sites spanning ten thousand years—from early forager camps to 1960s hippie communes—and conducted landscape surveys like the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument rock art project and agricultural system research with Picuris Pueblo.
- PhD in Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan (2004)
- BA in Anthropology, Dartmouth College (1993)
Fowles' research centers on Indigenous ontologies, collaborative archaeology with descendant communities (notably Picuris Pueblo, Comanche Nation, and San Antonio del Embudo's Indo-Hispano community), and visual culture as historical text. His recent articles explore multispecies archaeology (wolves in settler colonialism), rock art as counter-archives, and long-term visual culture trends in the Southwest. Key themes include settler colonialism, religious ecology, and historiographic critique.
Scientific awards include multiple National Science Foundation grants, a Tow Professorship, and Presidential Research Awards. He has contributed to major edited volumes like The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology and authored An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion. His teaching emphasizes Indigenous Place-Thought, material culture analysis, and collaborative field methods in New Mexico.
