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Judith A. Habicht-Mauche Home  Directory Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
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Title: |
Professor of Anthropology |
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Email: |
judith@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-3201 Office |
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Office: |
Social Sciences 1, 403 |
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Office Hours: |
W 10am-12pm |
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| Education History | |
B.A., College of William and Mary
M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University |
| Courses Taught | |
ANTH 3 - Intro to Archaeology
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| Research Focus | |
Teaching Specialties: North American prehistory and ethnohistory, ceramic analysis, complex societies of the New World, archaeological method and theory.
Area of Research: Ceramic analysis, tribal societies, culture contact and trade, material culture and technology, ethnicity and culture.
Area of Fieldwork: American Southwest and Southern Plains. |
| Long Description | |
Professor Judith Habicht-Mauche's research interests include the organization of production and exchange, ethnicity and gender, and the nature of power and social organization in middle range societies in the American Southwest and Southern Plains. Her background includes training in pre-contact and post-contact period archaeology in the Americas, ethnohistory and museum studies. She is an expert in the archaeological application of mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic techniques for sourcing artifacts and reconstructing ancient trade routes, with a specialization in ceramic analysis. She is a sought-after mentor for training in advanced ceramic materials analysis.
She earned her B.A. in Anthropology, with a focus in historic archaeology, from the College of William and Mary, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. She also completed an intensive training course in ceramic materials analysis at the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnography (CMRAE) at MIT. She has done archaeological fieldwork on historical sites in Virginia and pre-contact and early contact period sites in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
Her doctoral research on protohistoric interaction between Pueblo farmers and bison-hunters of the Southern Plains won the Plains Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition and was awarded the first Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Prize. Publications based on this research have appeared in Plains Anthropologist and several edited volumes on inter-regional trade and interaction and gender studies in archaeology.
In 1993, she published The Pottery of Arroyo Hondo: Tribalization and Trade in the Northern Rio Grande, based on three years of archaeological research at the School of American Research in Santa Fe. Her more recent work has focused on the organization of production and exchange of glaze-painted pottery from the northern Rio Grande region. A poster based on this research was awarded the Outstanding Poster Award (Professional Category) at the 1997 Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. Her recent co-edited volume, The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, A.D. 1250-1650, highlights her own research and that of other emerging scholars in this field.
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on general archaeological method and theory (Anthropology 3, 170/270, 172), ceramic analysis (Anthropology 180/180L and 280/280L), North American archaeology and culture history (Anthropology 176A/276A), the archaeology of the American Southwest (Anthropology 196A/B and 296A/B), the colonial encounter in the Americas (Anthropology 176C/276C), and the origins of social complexity and the state (Anthropology 174/274) and a graduate course on peopling of the Americas (Anthropology 276D). |
| Selected Publications | |
2006 - The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Transformation in the Late Precontact Southwest, edited with Suzanne L. Eckert and Deborah Huntley. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
2005 - "The Shifting Role of Women and Women's Labor on the Protohistoric Southern High Plains," in Gender and Hide Production: Archaeological, Biological, and Ethnological Perspectives, edited by Lisa Frink and Kathryn Weedman, AltaMira Press.
2002 - "Stable lead isotope analysis of Rio Grande glaze paints and ores using ICP-MS: a comparison of acid dissolution and laser ablation techniques," with Stephen T. Glenn, Mike P. Schmidt, Rob Franks, Homer Milford, A. Russell Flegal. Journal of Archaeological Science, 29 (9): 1043-1053.
2002 - "Torturing Sherds: Ceramic Petrography and the Development of Rio Grande Archaeology," in Traditions, Transitions, and Technologies: Themes in Southwestern Archaeology, edited by S.H. Schlanger, pp.49-58. The University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
2000 - "Isotopic Tracing of Prehistoric Rio Grande Glaze-Paint Production and Trade," with Stephen T. Glenn, A.Russell Flegal, and Homer Milford, Journal of Archaeological Science 27(8): 709-713.
2000 - "Pottery, Food, Hides and Women: Labor, Production, and Exchange within the Protohistoric Plains-Pueblo Frontier Economy," in The Archaeology of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Southwest, edited by Michelle Hegmon, pp. 209-231. The University Press of Colorado, Niwot. |
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