Julie Hollowell Biography Page
Formerly an alternative school teacher (at Harmony School, Bloomington, Indiana), I received the PhD in 2004 in cultural anthropology and was grandmothered in to the Archaeology and Social Context Program since it did not yet exist when I finished my coursework. My dissertation (“Old Things” on the Loose: The Legal Market in Archaeological Materials from Alaska’s Bering Strait) examines historical, social and economic contexts of an extensive trade in archaeological materials and fine art antiquities originating with subsistence diggers in Alaska’s Bering Strait. I have a deep interest in intellectual and cultural property issues in archaeology, the complexities of how people claim the past, and in the repatriation of knowledge, materials, and research directives to source communities.
I currently serve as consultant and guest curator for an exhibition of archaeological art being organized by Princeton University Art Museum (Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of the Bering Strait), and as a member of the SAA’s Committee on Ethics, where I’ve helped organize the annual Ethics Bowl. George Nicholas (Simon Fraser University) and I recently took on editing a series of Research Handbooks in Archaeology published by Left Coast Press, with all royalties going to the World Archaeological Congress.
Until mid-December 2005, I am Visiting Fellow in Arts, Archaeology and Anthropology of the Americas at the Sainsbury Research Institute, University of East Anglia, near Norwich, UK. In January 2006, I begin two years as a Killam Fellow at the University of British Columbia. My research at UBC, which is also supported by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, entails reviewing and analyzing case studies from all over the world that illustrate intellectual property issues and concerns related to archaeology and past knowledge systems. This work is part of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative in line to receive five years of funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for a series of participatory and community-based case studies focusing on intellectual property issues in archaeology. The 24 partnering organizations on this project range from Aboriginal communities and First Nations Cultural Institutes to Parks Canada and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
At UBC I will also assist the Museum of Anthropology and its Archaeology Department in developing a Reciprocal Research Network that will give researchers and interested persons two-way access to data, collections, and archives. This will be designed in partnership with First Nations to incorporate culturally-appropriate protocols for data-sharing.
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Julie Hollowell's Curriculum Vitae
in press. (co-authored with George Nicholas) “Ethical Challenges to a Postcolonial Archaeology: The Legacy of Scientific Colonialism.” In Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics, edited by Yannis Hamilakas and Philip Duke. University College of London, London.
in press. “St. Lawrence Island’s Legal Market in Archaeological Goods.” In Archaeology and the Commodification of Material Culture, edited by N. Brodie, M. Kersel, C. Luke, and K. W. Tubb. University Press of Florida, Tallahassee.
in press "Moral Arguments on Subsistence Digging" Cambridge University Press
2005 "Ancient North American Art Surfaces in the Art World: A Review of Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand" American Anthropologist 107(3): 489-497.
2004. with George Nicholas “Intellectual Property Issues in Archaeology?” Anthropology Newsletter, Commentary 45(4):6+.
unpublished paper. “The Many Faces of Stewardship: From Subsistence Diggers to the Art World,” Society for American Archaeology 2005, Salt Lake City, UT. Session sponsored by the Committee on Ethics.
Julie Hollowell with daughter and mother