Donna M. Glowacki January 8, 2018
246 Corbett Family Hall, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
Office: 574-631-7619, Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2006 Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe The Social Landscape of Depopulation: the Northern San Juan Region, A.D. 1150-1300
M.A. 1995 Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia Patterns of Ceramic Production and Vessel Movement in the Mesa Verde Region
B.A. 1992 Departments of Anthropology and Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
CURRENT POSITION AND AFFILIATIONS
2015-present Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
2000-present Research Associate, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Colorado
2007-present Research Associate, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2007-2015 John Cardinal O’Hara, CSC Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
2002, 2003 Instructor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2002 Instructor, Mesa Community College, AZ
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2012 Archaeologist, Architectural Documentation, PYIFA, Shunet el-Zebib, Abydos, Egypt
2009-present Co-project director, Mesa Verde Community Center surveys and collaborator on VEP II, CO
2008-present Co-project director, Architectural Documentation Spruce Tree House Cliff Dwelling project, Mesa
Verde National Park, CO
2007 Co-Project Director, Mesa Verde Village Assessment Project, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center,
Cortez, CO
2005-2006 Archaeologist, Architectural documentation Spruce Tree House Cliff Dwelling project, Mesa Verde
National Park, CO
2002-2003 Project Director, Community Center Survey, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO,
2000 Project Director, Yucca House Mapping Project, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and Mesa
Verde National Park, Cortez, CO
1998-1999 Archaeologist, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO
1995-1997 Assistant Project Director, Yellow Jacket Pueblo, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, CO
1993-1995 Laboratory Assistant, Archaeometry Lab Missouri University Research Reactor (MURR), Columbia,
MO
1992-1994 Interpretive Park Ranger, Mesa Verde National Park, CO
1990-1991 Archaeologist, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison, WI
1987-1989 Archaeologist, SunWatch Archaeological Park, Dayton, OH
REFEREED BOOKS
Glowacki, D.M.
2015 Living and Leaving: A Social History of Regional Depopulation in Thirteenth-Century Mesa Verde. The
University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
[Reviewed in Antiquity (Witcher), Journal of Anthropological Research (Wilshusen), Kiva
(Sebastian), CHOICE (Longacre)]
Glowacki, D.M. and S. Van Keuren (editors)
2011 Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
[Reviewed in American Antiquity (VanPool), AmerIndian Research (MK in German), Arizona
Anthropologist (Stoll), Western Historical Quarterly (Akins)]
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REFEREED BOOKS (continued)
Glowacki, D.M. and H. Neff (editors)
2002 Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and
Complementary Mineralogical Investigations. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California-Los
Angeles Press.
[Reviewed in Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin]
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Spielmann, K., M. Peeples, D.M. Glowacki, and A. Dugmore
2016 Early Warning Signals of Social Transformation: A Case Study from the US Southwest. PLoS ONE 11(10):
e0163685, 18 p. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163685
Schwindt, D.M., R.K. Bocinsky, S.G. Ortman, D.M. Glowacki, T.A. Kohler, M.D. Varien
2016 The Social Consequences of Climate Change in the Central Mesa Verde Region. American Antiquity
81(1):74-96.
Plog, S., P.R. Fish, D.M. Glowacki, and S.K. Fish
2015 Key Issues and Topics in the Archaeology of the American Southwest and Northwestern Mexico. KIVA 81(1-
2):2-30. Special edition for Arizona Archaeological and History Society 100th Anniversary [Note: this issues
was not available until May 2016 even though publication date is 2015]
Glowacki, D.M., J. Ferguson, W. Hurst, and C.M. Cameron
2015 Crossing Comb Ridge: Pottery Production and Procurement among Southeast Utah Great House
Communities. American Antiquity 80(3):472-491.
Brown, G.M., P.F. Reed, and D.M. Glowacki
2013 Chacoan and Post-Chaco Occupations in the Middle San Juan Region: Changes in Settlement and Population.
KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 78(4):417-448.
Varien, M.D., S.G. Ortman, T.A. Kohler, D.M. Glowacki, and C.D. Johnson
2007 Historical Ecology in the Mesa Verde Region: Results from the Village Ecodynamics Project. American
Antiquity 72(2):273-299.
Kintigh, K.W., D.M. Glowacki, and D.L. Huntley
2004 Long-term Settlement History and the Emergence of Towns in the Zuni Area. American Antiquity 69(3):432-
456.
Ortman, S.G., D.M. Glowacki, K.A. Kuckelman, and M.J. Churchill
2000 Pattern and Variation in Northern San Juan Village Histories. KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern
Anthropology and History 66(1): 123-146.
Glowacki, D.M., H. Neff, and M. Glascock
1998 An Initial Assessment of the Production and Movement of 13th Century Ceramic Vessels in the Mesa Verde
Region. KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History 63(3): 217-240.
Glowacki, D.M., H. Neff, and M. Glascock
1995 Characterization of Mesa Verde Black-on-white Ceramics from Southwestern Colorado Using NAA. Journal
of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles. 196(2): 215-222.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
Glowacki, D.M. and S.G. Ortman
2012 Characterizing Community Center (Village) Formation in the VEP Study Area, A.D. 600-1280 in Emergence
and Collapse of Early Villages: Models of Central Mesa Verde Archaeology, edited by T. A. Kohler and
M.D. Varien, pp. 219-246. University of California Press–Berkeley.
[Volume reviewed in American Anthropologist (Schachner), American Antiquity (Cameron), Journal
of Artificial Societies and Social Behavior (Barcelo)]
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REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS (continued)
Ortman, S.G., D.M. Glowacki, M.D. Varien, and C.D. Johnson
2012 The Study Area and the Ancestral Pueblo Occupation in Emergence and Collapse of Early Villages: Models
of Central Mesa Verde Archaeology, edited by T. A. Kohler and M.D. Varien, pp. 15-40. The University of
California Press–Berkeley.
Wilshusen, R., S.G. Ortman, S. Diederichs, D.M. Glowacki, and G. Coffey
2012 Heartland of the Early Pueblos: The Central Mesa Verde (Chapter 2) in Crucible of Pueblos: The Early
Pueblo Period in the Northern Southwest, edited by R. Wilshusen, G. Schachner, and J. Allison, pp. 14-35.
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, UCLA.
- This edited volume was selected as one of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
Glowacki, D.M.
2011 The Role of Religion in the Depopulation of the Central Mesa Verde Region. In Religious Transformation in
the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World, edited by D.M. Glowacki and S. Van Keuren, pp.66-83. Amerind
Foundation Seminar Series. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Van Keuren, S. and D.M. Glowacki
2011 Studying Ancestral Pueblo Religion. In Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World,
edited by D.M. Glowacki and S. Van Keuren, pp.1-22. Amerind Foundation Seminar Series. The University of
Arizona Press, Tucson.
Glowacki, D.M.
2010 The Social and Cultural Contexts of the Central Mesa Verde Region during the Thirteenth-Century
Migrations. In Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the 13th Century Southwest, edited by T.A.Kohler,
M.D. Varien, and A.M. Wright, pp. 200-221. Amerind Foundation Seminar Series. The University of Arizona
Press, Tucson. Available in paperback 2011.
[Volume reviewed in American Antiquity (Kantner), Economic Botany (Moerman), Environmental
History (Weisinger), Journal of Archaeological Research (Windes), Journal of Field Archaeology
(Wilcox), KIVA (Cordell), and New Mexico Historical Review (Wills)]
Glowacki, D.M. and H. Neff
2002 Using INAA in the Greater Southwest. In Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest:
Source Determination by INAA and Complementary Mineralogical Investigations, edited by D.M. Glowacki
and H. Neff, pp. 179-185. Monograph 44, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Glowacki, D.M., H. Neff, M. Hegmon, J.W. Kendrick, and W.J. Judge
2002 Resource Use, Red-Ware Production, and Vessel Distribution in the Northern San Juan Region. In Ceramic
Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and Complementary
Mineralogical Investigations, edited by D. M. Glowacki and H. Neff, pp. 67-73. Monograph 44, The Cotsen
Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Neff, H. and D.M. Glowacki
2002 Ceramic Source Determination by Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis in the American Southwest. In
Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Greater Southwest: Source Determination by INAA and
Complementary Mineralogical Investigations, edited by D. M. Glowacki and H. Neff, pp. 1-14. Monograph
44, The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Nelson, M.C., D.M. Glowacki, and A. Smith
2002 The Impact of Women on Household Economies: A Maya Case Study. In In the Pursuit of Gender:
Worldwide Archaeological Approaches, edited by S.M. Nelson and M. Rosen-Ayalon, pp. 125-154.
AltaMira Press.
Pierce, C., D.M. Glowacki, and M. Thurs
2002 Measuring Community Interaction: Pueblo III Pottery Production and Distribution in the Central Mesa Verde
Region. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region,
edited by M. D. Varien and R. Wilshusen, pp. 185-202. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Wilshusen, R.H. and D.M. Glowacki
2017 An Archaeological History of the Mesa Verde Region. In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the
American Southwest, edited by B.J. Mills and S. Fowles, Oxford University Press.
Glowacki, D.M. and F.M. Blackburn
2016 Yucca House National Monument. Colorado Encyclopedia (https://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/yucca-
house-national-monument)
Kohler, T., D.M. Glowacki, and R.K. Bocinsky
2015 Big Picture Archaeology from the Village Ecodynamics Project. Backdirt: Annual Review. Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology Press, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Glowacki, D.M.
2013 Relations with Neighbors to the East: Mesa Verde. Archaeology Southwest Magazine 78(3):18-19
2007 The Northern San Juan Region, A.D. 1150-1300. Archaeology Southwest Magazine 21(2):6.
Varien, M.D., S.G. Ortman, T.A. Kohler, D.M. Glowacki, and C.D. Johnson
2009 Modeling Demography and the Relationship between Humans and their Environment in the Mesa Verde
Region: Results from the Village Ecodynamics Project, in Proceedings of a Century of Archeological
Research at Mesa Verde National Park. May 2006. CD publication Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa
Verde, Colorado.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Glowacki, D.M.
Contract The Leavings the Thing: Village Dissolution and Departure from the Mesa Verde Region (Chapter 4). In
Detaching from Place: A World Archaeology Perspective to Settlement Abandonment, edited by Maxime
Lamoureux-St-Hilaire and Scott A. Macrae, The University Press of Colorado Press, Boulder.
Glowacki, D.M. and J.R. Ferguson
In Press Pottery Production and Exchange East and West of Comb Ridge. Archaeology Southwest Magazine: Special
Issue: Bears Ears National Monument.
Bellorado, B.A., T.C. Windes, and D.M. Glowacki
In Press The Last Century of Occupation in the Bears Ears Region. Archaeology Southwest Magazine: Special Issue:
Bears Ears National Monument.
Clark, Jeffery J., J. Birch, M. Hegmon, S. Ortman, L. Borck, J. Dean, R. Gauthier, M. Peeples, B.J. Mills, P. Lyons, D.
M. Glowacki, and J. Ware
In Prep Resolving the Migrant Paradox: Two Pathways to Coalescence in the late Precontact U.S. Southwest. To be
submitted to Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Spring 2018.
RESEARCH FEATURES
2017 KSJD and Mesa Verde National Park Podcast Feature: “Moving On” (Episode 3 of Mesa Verde Voices)
edited by Cally Caswell: https://www.mesaverdevoices.org/
2015 NATURE News Feature Article: “The Greatest Vanishing Act in Prehistoric America/And then there were
none” by Richard Monastersky. Volume 527, pp. 26-29, November Issue. Features “Leaving & Living…”
book and work with VEP; was did a video interview posted on the NATURE web page:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-greatest-vanishing-act-in-prehistoric-america-1.18700
2015 KSJD live interview: “The Abandonment of the Mesa Verde Area in the 13th Century” that features “Living &
Leaving…” book: http://ksjd.org/post/abandonment-mesa-verde-area-13th-century#stream/0
2015 American Archaeology feature article by David Malakoff, “Grappling with a Great Mystery” about the VEP,
pp. 32-37. Summer Issue, quoted
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RESEARCH FEATURES (continued)
2008 New York Times Feature Article: “Vanished: A Pueblo Mystery” by George Johnson, April 8, 2008, quoted: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08anasazi.html
2007 Research on pottery production and exchange featured in House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization
Across the American Southwest (Little, Brown & Company) by Craig Childs in “Movement: Northern San
Juan Basin”
AGENCY TECHNICAL REPORTS
Glowacki, D.M., R.K. Bocinsky, K.M. Reese, and K.A. Portman
2017 The Mesa Verde Community Center Survey: Summer 2017. Manuscript and data submitted to Mesa Verde
National Park, on file with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (33 pp)
Glowacki, D.M.
2012 The Mesa Verde Community Center Survey Documenting Large Pueblo Villages in Mesa Verde National Park
with contributions by R.K. Bocinsky, E. Alonzi, and K. Reese. Manuscript submitted to the National Science
Foundation and Mesa Verde National Park, on file with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and Washington
State University in compliance with deliverable for NSF Grant DEB-0816400 (152 pp)
http://village.anth.wsu.edu/publications
Reed, C., R.K. Bocinsky, and D.M. Glowacki
2009 Mesa Verde National Park Community Center Survey: Report and Synthesis. Manuscript submitted to the
National Science Foundation and Mesa Verde National Park, on file with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
and Washington State University in compliance with deliverable for NSF Grant DEB-0816400
(50 pp)
Glowacki, D.M., K.E. Barnett, A.J. Gass, D.K. Long, P.R. Flint-Lacey, J.M. Brisbin, and L.L.D. Ninnemann
2008 Preserving the Occupational History of Spruce Tree House: Finalizing Architectural Documentation for
Research, Public Education, and Management. Manuscript and data submitted to the Colorado Historical
Society in compliance with deliverable for CHS-SHF Grant #2007-02-060. (144 pp)
Glowacki, D.M.
2007 Mesa Verde Village Assessment Project (MVVAP). Manuscript on file with Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center and Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, project funded by the National Trust for Historic
Preservation. (38 pp)
Brisbin, J.M., D.M. Glowacki and Kay E. Barnett
2007 Spruce Tree House 2007 Summary of Architectural Documentation: Structures and Social Organization in a
Thirteenth Century Cliff Dwelling, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Manuscript submitted to the
Colorado Historical Society in compliance with deliverable for CHS-SHF Grant #2006-02-067. (332 pp)
Brisbin, J.M. and D.M. Glowacki
2007 Spruce Tree House (5MV640), Mesa Verde National Park: Kiva Courtyard H and Structures in the Southern
part of the Alcove. 2006 Field Season. Manuscript submitted to the Colorado Historical Society in compliance
with deliverable for CHS-SHF Grant #2006-02-067. (179 pp)
Kleidon, J., S. Diederichs, and D.M. Glowacki
2007 Long Mesa 2002 Fire Burn Area Archaeological Inventory, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: Puebloan
Settlement, Demographics, and Community Structure. Manuscript on file with the Colorado Historical Society
and Mesa Verde National Park in compliance with deliverable for CHS-SHF Grant #2004-01-037. (281 pp)
Glowacki, D.M.
2006 Architectural Change in Spruce Tree House (5MV640) during the mid-to-late 1200s: Main Street and Kiva G.
Report summarizing the 2005 Field Season. Manuscript on file with the Colorado Historical Society and Mesa
Verde National Park, Colorado. Manuscript submitted to the Colorado Historical Society in compliance with
deliverable for CHS-SHF Grant # 2005-01-053. (107 pp)
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AGENCY TECHNICAL REPORTS (continued)
Glowacki, D.M. and Mark D. Varien
2003 Community Center Survey 2003: Results and Synthesis. Manuscript on file at Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center, Cortez, Colorado. Manuscript submitted Crow Canyon Archaeological Center and Washington State
University in compliance with deliverable for NSF Grant SES-0119981. (10 pp)
Varien, M.D., S.G. Ortman, D.M. Glowacki, and M.G. Spitzer
2003 Activities and Findings Related to Construction and Interpretation of the Archaeological Database. Second
Annual Progress Report on NSF Project SES-0119981 “Coupled Human/Ecosystems over Long Periods:
Mesa Verde Region Prehispanic Ecodynamics” compiled by T.A. Kohler and C.D. Johnson (64 pp)
Glowacki, D.M.
2001 Yucca House (5MT5006) Mapping Project 2000. Submitted to Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde,
Colorado. Manuscript on file at MVNP and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Colorado. (108 pp)
1997 The 1996 Excavations at Yellow Jacket Pueblo (5MT5) Montezuma County, Colorado. Submitted to the
Colorado Historical Society and the Archaeological Conservancy on file at Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center, Cortez, Colorado.
Glowacki, D.M. and K.A. Kuckelman
1996 Report of 1995 Research at Yellow Jacket Pueblo (5MT5), Montezuma County, Colorado. Submitted to the
Colorado Historical Society and the Archaeological Conservancy on file at Crow Canyon Archaeological
Center, Cortez, Colorado.
Kuckelman, K.A. and D.M. Glowacki
1995 Yellow Jacket Site Management and Protection Plan. Submitted to the Colorado Historical Society and the
Archaeological Conservancy on file at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado.
INVITED LECTURES
2017 Making of a Village: Social Organization of Spruce Tree House. Voices of the Past Lecture Series,
Southwestern Seminars, Hotel Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 10
2016 The Making of a Village: Growth & Change at Spruce Tree House. Four Corners Lecture Series, Chapin
Museum Auditorium, Mesa Verde National Park, NPS Centennial speaker, May 20
2016 The May Bucknam Memorial Speaker, Denver Museum of Nature & Science Public Lecture, Oh the Times
they are a-Changin’: Living & Leaving in 13th Century Mesa Verde, Colorado Archaeological Society –
book talk, May 9
2016 Aztec Ruins National Monument, NPS Centennial Public Lecture, Mesa Verde & the 13th Century – book
talk, April 27
2016 Colorado Archaeological Society – Hisatsinom Chapter, Cortez, CO, public lecture The Times they are a-
Changin’: Living & Leaving in 13th Century Mesa Verde – book talk, March 1
2015 Keynote Speaker: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s Annual Meeting and CultureFest: Living & Leaving
in 13th Century Mesa Verde & Book Signing, October 17
2015 NEH Summer Institute scholar: conducted a week of lectures and tours of Mesa Verde National Park for From
Mesa Verde to Santa Fe: Pueblo Identity in the Pre- and Post-Colonial Southwest for 19 teachers and Crow
Canyon Archaeological Center, July 10-14, and 17
2013 Two presentations for a public forum on the NSF-funded Village Ecodynamics Project (VEP): Preliminary
Results and Discussion (The Mesa Verde Community Center Survey, MV-CCS and An Introduction to the
VEP II North Community Centers) at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, July 29
2012 NEH Summer Institute scholar: conducted 2-days of lectures and tours of Mesa Verde National Park for
Mesoamerica and the Southwest: New Directions in Scholarship and Teaching involving 24 college faculty
from the Humanities, July 15 and 16
2012 Conducted 2-hour lecture and tour of Spruce Tree House Cliff Dwelling for Women’s Board of the Chicago
Field Museum and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Mesa Verde National Park, June 4
2012 Mesa Verde, Religion, and Change, Four Corners Lecture Series, Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores,
Colorado, June 3
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INVITED LECTURES (continued)
2011 Getting at the Social Reasons for the Mesa Verde Depopulation, Southwestern Seminars, Hotel Santa Fe,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 29
2011 Conducted 2-hour lecture and tour of Spruce Tree House Cliff Dwelling for “Water and the West”, an
experiential summer class with 12 students from University of North Texas, Drs. Steve Wolverton and Tom
LaPointe, Mesa Verde National Park, June 23
2007 North of the Center Place: Northern Chaco Symposium, lecture and tour of Yucca House National
Monument and round table discussion for Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, May 27-June 2
2007 New Light on the Archaeology of the Mesa Verde Region: Celebrating Crow Canyon’s 25 Years of
Research, invited lecture and instructional tours of Mug House and Long House, Mesa Verde National Park,
October 14-19
Public lectures for the local chapters of the Missouri and Colorado Archaeological Societies (1994,1996), the San Juan
Mountain Association at the Anasazi Heritage Center (2005), a public symposium on the NSF-funded “Village
Project” (2004), the San Juan Basin Archaeological Society in Durango (November 2006), Colorado Archaeological
Society, Hisatsinom Chapter, Cortez (2007)
GRANTS & SPONSORED PROGRAMS
External
2012 National Geographic Society (Grant #9100-12): Mesa Verde Community Center Survey: Understanding
Village Formation, Aggregation Abandonment, AD 780-1290 ($20,000)
2011 NSF-REU Supplement Request #1132226 to fund Notre Dame undergrads Elise Alonzi and Andrew Steier for
summer field work on the Mesa Verde large site survey for VEP II- DEB-0816400 ($7,816)
2009 Amerind Foundation Grant for Religious Ideologies of the Pueblo Southwest, A.D. 1250-1540 co-award
with Scott Van Keuren (University of Vermont)
2009 Collaborator on EAR 0923249 MRI: Acquisition: Establishment of the Midwest Isotope and Trace Element
Research Analytical Center (MITERAC).Co-Principal investigators: Clive R. Neal & Antonio Simonetti.
National Science Foundation–Major Research Instrumentation Program ($1,159,219)
2008 Subcontractor/Senior Personnel on NSF-CNH Grant: Coupled Natural and Human Ecosystems over Long
Periods: Pueblo Ecodynamics DEB-0816400 ($92,495)
2004 The Florence C. and Robert H. Lister Fellowship: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center ($5,000)
2002 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant: Intraregional Interaction in the Mesa Verde Region, A.D. 1150-1300:
Placing Emigration in its Social Context BCS-012487 ($12,000)
2002 NSF-Subsidized INAA from Missouri University Research Reactor SBR-9802366 - $20/sample
2002 Joe Ben Wheat Scholarship: Colorado University-Boulder, Department of Anthropology ($2,500)
1994 Katherine Carhart Graduate Research Fellowship: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
1994 Pecos Conference (67th) Kiln Auction proceeds – M.A. Research: chemical composition INAA ($2,000)
1994 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center – M.A. Research: chemical composition INAA ($760)
Internal
2014 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Publication and Indexing Assistance Grant ($1,200)
2011 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Publication and Indexing Assistance Grant ($1,200)
2010 Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Large Research Grant to help fund an archaeological survey
project at Mesa Verde National Park ($12,500)
2009 Henkel’s Mini-conference visiting speaker grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, University of
Notre Dame to bring Dr. Susan Bergh, Associate Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas at the Cleveland
Museum of Art, in for “the World at 1200s” class, applied for grant with co-instructor, Dr. Danielle Joyner,
Art, Art History & Design ($2,630)
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Internal (continued)
2004 Dean’s Writing Fellowship: Department of Anthropology and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona
State University ($7,500) and Dean’s Circle Scholarship ($1,000)
2000 Research and Development Grant – Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University ($1,000)
Institutional Grant-writing
2007 Colorado Historical Society-Historical Society Fund grant (07-02-060): “Preserving the Occupational History
of Spruce Tree House: Finalizing Architectural Documentation for Research, Public Education, and
Management” written as a seasonal Mesa Verde research archaeologist on behalf of Mesa Verde National Park
and the Mesa Verde Museum Association ($188,405)
2005 Colorado Historical Society-Historical Society Fund grant (06-02-067): “Preserving the Cliff Dwellings and
Engaging the Public: Architectural Documentation at Spruce Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park”
written as a seasonal Mesa Verde research archaeologist on behalf of Mesa Verde National Park and the Mesa
Verde Museum Association ($133,800)
AWARDS
2015 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Honor Award, Cortez, CO.
2014 Walter E. Stebbins High School Outstanding Alumnus Award, Riverside, OH.
ADVANCED SEMINARS
Organizer
2009 Religious Ideologies of the Pueblo Southwest, A.D. 1250-1540, organized by Donna M. Glowacki
(University of Notre Dame) and Scott Van Keuren (University of Vermont), Amerind Foundation, Dragoon,
AZ (April 1-5) with 12 participants. Paper presented for discussion: Religion and the Mesa Verde Migrations
Participant
2015 Mesa Verde and Northern Rio Grande Case Study. Co-presented at the Amerind-Archaeology Southwest
Symposium Advanced Seminar, Contrasting Kayenta and Mesa Verde Migrations (September 9-12) with 12
participants. Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, AZ.
2014 Early Signals of Threshold Crossing Events in Prehistoric Southwestern Socio-ecological Systems. Co-
authored paper: M. Peeples, D. Glowacki, K. Spielmann, and A. Dugmore, presented at Santa Fe Institute
(SFI) Seminar Social Change in the Context of Climate Challenges. LTVTP/NABO, SFI, Santa Fe, NM
(May 27-29) with 12 participants.
2014 Evidence of Conflict in the VEP II North study area (Mesa Verde). Presented for discussion with Stefani
Crabtree at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) seminar: Migration, Group Formation, and Economic
Development in the Pueblo World organized by Scott Ortman and Tim Kohler, SAR, Santa Fe, NM (March
16-19) with 12 participants.
2008 Dimensions of Depopulation: the Social Contexts of the Mesa Verde Migrations. Paper presented for
discussion in the Amerind Advanced Seminar entitled New Light on the Thirteenth-Century Depopulation of
the Northern Southwest organized by Tim Kohler, Mark Varien, and Aaron Wright, Amerind Foundation,
Dragoon, AZ (February 23-27) with 15 participants.
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
Paper Sessions Organized
Glowacki, D.M. and S. Van Keuren (co-organizers and co-chairs)
2008 Tension and Transition: Religious Ideologies in the Pueblo Southwest, A.D. 1250-1450 at the 73rd Society
for American Archaeology Meetings, Vancouver. Symposium was 1 of 5 selected as a finalist for an Amerind-
SAA seminar fellowship
Speakman, J., T. Clark, and D.M. Glowacki (co-organizers and co-chairs)
2005 Using Nuclear Chemistry to Answer Cultural Questions: Recent Applications of INAA in the American
Southwest for the 70th Annual Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City.
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Paper Sessions Organized (continued)
Glowacki, D.M. (organizer and chair)
1997 Chemical Sourcing of Ceramics in the Greater Southwest for the 62nd Annual Meeting for the Society for
American Archaeology, Nashville.
Poster Sessions Organized
Searcy, M., D.M. Glowacki, and T. Pietzel
2016 Engaged Archaeology through Transnational, Interdisciplinary, and Indigenous Collaborations. 15th Biennial
Southwest Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, January 14-16.
Martínez, J. and D.M. Glowacki
2010 Cliff Dwellings (6 posters). XI Southwest Symposium: Building Transnational Archaeologies. Hermosillo,
Sonora, Mexico.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Invited Papers
Glowacki, D.M.
2017 The Leavings the Thing: Village Dissolution and Departure from the Mesa Verde Region. In Detaching from
Place: A World Archaeology Perspective to Settlement Abandonment at the 116th American Anthropological
Association Meeting: Anthropology Matters! Washington, DC.
2017 (Trans)Formation, Centralization, and the Making of a Mesa Verde Village. In Households and Social
Evolution: Comprehensive Approaches to Social Transformation at the 82nd Annual Society for American
Archaeology Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Glowacki, D.M., K.E. Barnett, and J.M. Brisbin
2015 Spruce Tree House: The Social History of a Thirteenth-Century Cliff Dwelling. In Communities through
Time: Societal Continuity and Transformation in the Northern San Juan Region at the 80th Society for
American Archaeology Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Glowacki, D.M., J. R. Ferguson, W. Hurst, and C. M. Cameron
2014 Dividing Lines: Pottery Production and Exchange among the Comb Ridge Great House Communities. Pecos
Conference Public Symposium: New Science for Old Pots: Recent Scientific Studies of Prehistoric Pottery
from SE Utah, Blanding Arts & Events Center, UT
Glowacki, D.M., J.M. Bremer, S. Ortman, G. Coffey and R. Gauthier
2014 Population Aggregation and Community Center Organization: Comparing the VEP North and South Study
Areas. In Coupled Regions, Coupled Systems: Dynamics of Prehispanic Farming Societies in the Northern
San Juan and Northern Rio Grande at the 79th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Austin, TX.
Schwindt, D., S.G. Ortman and D.M. Glowacki
2014 Comparing Demography and Population History between the Northern San Juan and Northern Rio Grande. In
Coupled Regions, Coupled Systems: Dynamics of Prehispanic farming Societies in the Northern San Juan
and Northern Rio Grande at the 79th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Austin, TX.
Dugmore, A., K.A. Spielmann, D.M. Glowacki, K.W. Kintigh, R. Streeter and T. McGovern
2013 Early warning signals of threshold crossing events in socio-ecological systems. Presented at the
LTVTP/NABO Workshop at Thelamork in Akureyri, Iceland.
Glowacki, D.M. and F. Arakawa
2013 Living and Leaving in Thirteenth-century Mesa Verde. In Living Abandonment: the Social Process of
Detaching from Place at the 78th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Reese, K.M., R.K. Bocinsky, D.M. Glowacki, S.G. Ortman, and T.A. Kohler
2013 What Are Communities, Really? In New Directions in Modeling Dynamics for Coupled Social-Natural
Systems at the 78th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Honolulu, HI.
Varien, M.D., S.G. Ortman, D.M. Glowacki, and D.M. Schwindt
2012 Ancestral Puebloan Settlement in Southwestern Colorado, AD 600-1290. In Socionatural Systems in the
Northern U.S. Southwest: a Village Ecodynamics Project II Progress Report at the 77th Society for
American Archaeology Meeting, Memphis, TN.
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Invited Papers (continued)
Glowacki, D.M.
2011 The Chaco-to-Post-Chaco Transition in the Central Mesa Verde Region. In The Chaco-to-Post-Chaco
Transition in the Northern San Juan Drainage at the 76th Society for American Archaeology Meeting,
Sacramento, CA.
Lipe, W.D. and D.M. Glowacki
2011 A Late Pueblo II Period "Surge" of Kayenta Ceramics into Southern Utah. In The Cedar Mesa Project Turns
40: New Results from a Long-lived Study in SE Utah at the 76th Society for American Archaeology Meeting,
Sacramento, CA.
Glowacki, D.M., C. Reed, R.K. Bocinsky, S. Diederichs, and J.A. Bell
2010 Making Sense of the Actual: Settlement Trends in the Southwestern Colorado VEP Study Areas. In The
Village Ecodynamics Project II at the 75th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Lipe, W.D., D.M. Glowacki, and T.C. Windes
2010 Dynamics of the Thirteenth Century Depopulation of the Northern San Juan: The View from Cedar Mesa. In
Turds, Turkeys, and Ticks on Cedar Mesa: New Insights from Old Collections at the 75th Society for
American Archaeology Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Glowacki, D.M., G.M. Brown, and P.F. Reed
2009 Aztec Ruins and the Middle San Juan Region in the Post-Chacoan World. In East of Eden and North of
Chaco: Untangling Early Puebloan, Chacoan, and Navajo Histories in the Upper and Middle San Juan
Drainage at the 74th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Glowacki, D.M.
2008 Religion and the Mesa Verde Migrations. In Tension and Transition: Religious Ideologies in the Pueblo
Southwest, A.D. 1250-1450 at the 73rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
2007 The Social Landscape of the 13th Depopulation of the Northern San Juan. In the symposium New Light on the
Thirteenth-Century Depopulation of the Northern Southwest for the 72nd Society of American Archaeology
Meeting, Austin, TX.
2006 From the Outside Looking In: Regional Perspectives on Pueblo III in the Middle San Juan. Presented at the
69th Annual Pecos Conference: One Hundred Years of Archaeology and Preservation, Navajo Lake, NM.
2006 The Social Landscape of Depopulation: the Northern San Juan in the 13th Century. Presented at the 10th
Biennial Southwest Symposium, Las Cruces, NM.
2005 Intraregional Interaction in the Northern San Juan during the “Turbulent 1200s”. Presented at the 70th Society
for American Archaeology Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.
Varien, M.D., S.G. Ortman, D.M. Glowacki, and C.D. Johnson
2004 Settlement History and Population Dynamics in the Central Mesa Verde Region. Presented at the 69th Society
for American Archaeology Meeting, Montreal.
Glowacki, D.M., M.D. Varien, and C.D. Johnson
2003 Community Centers: Cycles of Aggregation in the Mesa Verde Region. Presented at the 68th Annual Society
for American Archaeology Meeting, Milwaukee, WI.
Glowacki, D.M.
2002 Defining the Social Landscape of the Northern San Juan: Regional Distribution of Architectural Indicators of
Integration and Conflict. Presented at the 67th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Denver, CO.
Ortman, S.G., D.M. Glowacki, K.A. Kuckelman, and M.J. Churchill
1999 Pattern and Variation in the Histories of Mesa Verde Communities. Presented at the 64th Society for American
Archaeology Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Glowacki, D.M., H. Neff, M. Hegmon, J. Kendrick, and J. Judge
1997 Chemical Variation, Resource Use, and Vessel Movement in the Mesa Verde Region. Presented at the 62nd
Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Nashville, TN.
Glowacki, D.M. and M.D. Glascock
1994 Characterization of Mesa Verde Black-on-white Ceramics from Southwestern Colorado Using NAA.
Presented at the American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C.
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Invited Papers (continued)
Glowacki, D.M., C. Turnbow, and R. Fields
1993 New Perspectives on the Fort Ancient Ceramics of the Madisonville Site, Southwestern Ohio. Presented at the
58th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Contributed Papers
Schwindt, D.M., S.G. Ortman, and D.M. Glowacki
2014 The Village Ecodynamics Project (VEP): Comparing the Demography and Population Histories of the Central
Mesa Verde and Northern Rio Grande Study Areas. 87th Annual Pecos Conference, Blanding, UT.
Glowacki, D.M., T.A. Kohler, K.E. Barnett, R.K. Bocinsky, S. Crabtree, K. Reese, E. Alonzi, and A.R. Steier
2011 Large Villages in Upper Soda Canyon: an update on VEP field work. 84th Annual Pecos Conference, Kaibab
National Forest, AZ.
Glowacki, D.M. and S.G. Ortman
2001 Similarity and Diversity of Mesa Verde Black-on-white Designs among Mesa Verde Villages. Presented at the
66th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Glowacki, D.M. and K.W. Kintigh
2000 Settlement Pattern Changes in the Vicinity of Hesho tauth ła, New Mexico. Presented at the 65th Annual
Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Glowacki, D.M., W. Dale, and S. Tradlener
2000 The Yucca House Mapping Project: A Cooperative Endeavor. 73rd Annual Pecos Conference, Dolores, CO.
Nelson, M.C., D.M. Glowacki, and A. Smith
1998 The Impact of Women on Household Economies: A Maya Case Study. Presented at the Worldwide
Archaeological Perspectives on Women and Gender Conference, Bellagio, Italy.
Glowacki, D.M. and K.A. Kuckelman
1998 Yellow Jacket Pueblo: A Persistent Place on the Mesa Verde Landscape. Presented at the 63rd Annual
Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle.
Thurs, M., D.M. Glowacki, and C. Pierce
1996 Examining Pottery Production in the Sand Canyon Community. Presented at the 61st Society for American
Archaeology Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Glowacki, D.M. and M.D. Glascock
1995 The Nature of Production and Exchange in the Sand Canyon Locality based on Compositional Groups formed
using Neutron Activation Analysis. Presented at the 60th Society for American Archaeology Meeting,
Minneapolis, MN.
RESEARCH POSTERS (at professional conferences)
Reese, K.M., M. Iott, K. Portman, D.M. Glowacki, J. Potter, and S. Ortman
2017 Preliminary Pottery Analysis at Cowboy Wash Pueblo: A Central Village on the Ute Piedmont Frontier. Poster
presented at the 82nd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Schwindt, D.M., R.K. Bocinsky, S.G. Ortman, D.M. Glowacki, M.D. Varien, and T.A. Kohler
2016 Interactions among Society, Climate, Production, and Population: A Case Study from the Central Mesa Verde
Region with Contemporary Implications. Poster presented at the 15th Biennial Southwest Symposium,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Sluka, V., C.M. Anderson, D.M. Glowacki, and E.J. Stech
2015 X-ray Fluorescence as a Tool for Identifying Paint composition of Mesa Verde Black-on-white Pottery. Poster
presented at the 80th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Ferguson, J.R., D.M. Glowacki, W.B. Hurst, and C.M. Cameron
2012 Chacoan and Post-Chacoan Pottery Production and Circulation at Great Houses in the Comb Ridge Locality,
Southeast Utah. Poster presented at the 77th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Memphis, TN.
Steier, A.R., D.M. Glowacki, and E.J. Stech
2012 Investigating Paint Recipes of Mesa Verde Black-on-white Bowls using PIXE Analysis. Poster presented at
the 77th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Memphis, TN.
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RESEARCH POSTERS (continued)
Reese, K.M., R.K. Bocinsky, K.E. Barnett, S. Crabtree, E. Alonzi, A.R. Steier, D.M. Glowacki, and T.A. Kohler
2012 Large, Aggregated Villages in Little Soda Canyon. Poster presented at the 77th Society for American
Archaeology Meeting, Memphis, TN.
Perry, M. and D.M. Glowacki
2010 Developing Methods for the Application of PIXE Analysis on Mesa Verde Black-on-white Paints at Aztec
Ruin, New Mexico. Poster presented at the 75th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Bell, J. A., S. Diederichs, K. E. Barnett, and D.M. Glowacki
2010 A Comparison of Early and Late Pueblo III (1100-1300 AD) Cliff Dwellings Sites: Mesa Verde National
Park, USA. Poster presented at the XI Southwest Symposium: Building Transnational Archaeologies in
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Plis, L. and D.M. Glowacki
2009 PIXE Analysis of Paint on Mesa Verde Black-on-white Bowls from Aztec Ruin, New Mexico. Poster
presented at the 74th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Diederichs, S. and D.M. Glowacki
2007 The Distribution and Context of Mesa Verde Towers. Poster presented at the 72nd Society for American
Archaeology Meeting, Austin, TX.
Glowacki, D.M., C.D. Johnson, F. Arakawa, and H. Robinson
2004 Community Center Survey: Large Sites in Central Mesa Verde Revisited. Poster presented at the 69th Society
for American Archaeology Meeting, Montreal.
GRADUATE COMMITTEES
Committee Chair
Sean Field, University of Notre Dame, Ph.d. (2017-present)
Kelsey M. Reese, University of Notre Dame, Ph.d. (2016-present)
Committee Member
Richard (Drew) Mercantonio, University of Notre Dame, Ph. D. committee member (2016-present)
Shanna Diederichs, Northern Arizona University, M.A. thesis committee member (2015-2016)
Kelsey M. Reese, Washington State University, M.A. thesis committee member (2012-2014)
R. Kyle Bocinsky, Washington State University, M.A. thesis committee member (2009-2011)
Alison Bredthauer, University of Colorado-Boulder, M.A. thesis committee member (2007-2010)
COURSES TAUGHT
Fundamentals of Archaeology, University of Notre Dame
The Archaeology of Religion, University of Notre Dame
The World at 1200, University of Notre Dame
Sustainability & Collapse, University of Notre Dame
Sustainability: Principles & Practices, University of Notre Dame
Human Impact and the Environment: Past, Present, & Future (USEM), University of Notre Dame
Legacies of the Southwest, University of Notre Dame, Arizona State University
Origins of Human Civilizations, University of Notre Dame
Buried Cities and Lost Tribes–New World, Mesa Community College
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Society for American Archaeology
American Anthropological Association
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SERVICE: PROFESSIONAL, DEPARTMENTAL, AND UNIVERSITY
Professional
2016-present Southwest Symposium Board Member
2013-present KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History Editorial Board
2016 MVNP Interpretive Ranger Training sessions (also 2007, 2012)
2013-2015 Society for American Archaeology – Fred Plog Memorial Fellowship Committee
Professional (continued)
2014 Yucca House consultation with Santa Clara Pueblo elders and NPS
2014 Revised Spruce Tree House brochure for tourists visiting MVNP (editor and consultant)
2006-2010 Pottery Southwest Editorial Board
Reviewer for American Antiquity, Ethnobiology Letters, KIVA: The Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and
History, National Science Foundation
Department and University (Notre Dame)
University
2016-present University Committee for Research and Sponsored Projects (UCSRP)
2013-2017 Campus Crossroads Development Project Steering Committee – Anthropology
2015 Sustainability across the Curriculum workshop – panel discussant
Department - Anthropology
2016-present Graduate Curriculum and Admissions Committee
2016-2017 Search Committee, Chair – Anthropological Archaeologist
2014-2015 Search Committee – Medical Anthropologist
2012-2013 Search Committee – Linguistic Anthropologist
2008-2011 Student Awards Committee
2007-2008 Internships and Student Awards Committee