Aron Crowell
Alaska Director, Arctic Studies Center/ Anthropologist
Arctic Studies Center 121 W. 7th Ave. Anchorage, AK 99501
Research Interests
Alaska Native contact and culture change in southern Alaska; contemporary Alaska Native communities; indigenous maritime adaptations; geoarchaeology
Current Research Projects
Combined oral history and archaeological approaches to Alutiiq culture history and maritime adaptations along the Gulf of Alaska coast of the Kenai Peninsula, southern Alaska
Alaska Native interpretations of NMNH ethnographic collections from Alaska
Current or Projected Exhibits
"Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People", opening June 2001 at NMNH (community-based exhibit with the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak; national and Alaska tour 2001-2003).
In development, Alaska collections web site.
Recent Publications
Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People, edited by Aron L. Crowell, Amy F. Steffian, and Gordon L. Pullar, University of Alaska Press, in press for publication in 2001.
Archaeology and the Capitalist World System: A Study from Russian America. Plenum Press, 1997.
Archaeology and Coastal Dynamics of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, Aron L. Crowell and Daniel H. Mann, National Park Service, 1998, Anchorage.
Maritime Cultures of the Gulf of Alaska. Revista de Arqueologia Americana (Journal of American Archaeology), Vol. 16, in press, expected 2000.
Human Populations, Sea Level Change, and the Archaeological Record of the Northern Gulf of Alaska Coastline. Arctic Anthropology 33(2):16-37. 1996
Russians in Alaska, 1784: Foundations of Colonial Society at Three Saints Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 81:10-41. 1997
Koniag Eskimo Poisoned Dart Whaling. In Anthropology of the North Pacific, edited by W. W. Fitzhugh and V. Chaussonnet, pp. 217-242. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1994
Postcontact Koniag Ceremonialism on Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula: Evidence from the Fisher Collection. Arctic Anthropology 29(1):18-37. 1992.
Crossroads of Continents: Cultures of Siberia and Alaska. Edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Aron L. Crowell, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 1988