Emily Conlogue

Research Interests

US Southwest, colonialism, religion, historical archaeology, landscape, rock art.

Emily studies religion and colonialism through an archaeological lens, seeking to redress a chronological and theoretical gap in the way that archaeologists think about the Southwestern United States. She plans to employ spatial analysis, archival research, and oral history methods to explore how various social and political transformations of the 19th-century played out in the day to day lives of individuals in the territory now known as New Mexico. She is especially interested in thinking about religious architecture and the spatial patterning of structures during times of political conflict, and in the ways that newcomers and Indigenous communities have negotiated contested spaces. Emily is also interested in ongoing discussions about non-invasive field methods, ethics, and feminism and gender in archaeology.

Emily completed her undergraduate degree in anthropology at Barnard College (Class of 2019). She has conducted field work as part of a collaborative project on behalf of Picuris Pueblo and on the original 1725 Spanish colonial land grant settlement in the town of Dixon, NM (AKA Embudo) through Barnard professor Sev Fowles’s Gorge Project. She has also worked in a natural history museum in Alaska, done contract archaeology with companies in California and New England, and excavated at a Great Depression-era homeless encampment in the Bronx.