Crowell, Aron

National Museum of Natural History staff

Arctic archaeology and anthropology, museum anthropology.

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Background And Education

education and training

• M.A., George Washington University
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Research And Grants

investigator on

• Alaska Native Cultural Heritage and Sovereignty in Museums  awarded by CIRI Foundation
• Collaborative Research: Glacial Retreat and the Cultural Landscape of Ice Floe Sealing at Yakutat Bay, Alaska  awarded by National Science Foundation
• Development of Alaska Native Cultural Exhibit at the Anchorage Museum  awarded by Anchorage Museum Foundation
• Indigenous Language Learning and Documentation in the Bering Strait Region  awarded by National Park Service
• Moosehide Tanning and Sewing in the Dene Way  awarded by CIRI Foundation
• NPF Partnership -Rescue and Protect Irreplaceable Archeological Sites on Eroding Coasts at Two Parks  awarded by National Park Service
• NPF Partnership -Rescue and Protect Irreplaceable Archeological Sites on Eroding Coasts at Two Parks  awarded by National Park Service
• Yakutat Tlingit Sealing Camps: Investigating the Relationship among Language, Indigenous Knowledge, and Glacial Movement  awarded by National Science Foundation

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Crowell, Aron L. 2021. "Preface: A Western Arctic Perspective on the Fifth Thule Expedition." Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 19, (1-2) 3–5. 2021
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2021. "Whaling and Whale Spirits in the Western Arctic: Notes from the Fifth Thule Expedition." Alaska Journal of Anthropology, 19, (1-2) 108–126. 2021
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2020. "Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: An Alaska Native Exhibition as Indigenous Knowledge Nexus." Alaska Journal of Anthropology 18 (1):4-22. 2020
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2020. "The 1960s - 1970s Harbor Seal Crash in Alaska: A Historical and Ecological Perspective." in Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North, edited by Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, Aron L., 317-335. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2020
  • Maio, Christopher V., Crowell, Aron L., Sullivan, Richard M., Buzard, Richard M., Whitley, Matthew A., Bogardus, Reyce C., and Wit, Cary W. de. 2019. "Examining Coastal Dynamics and Archaeological Site Evidence at a Drowned Cirque Basin Influenced by Earthquakes and Little Ice Age Glaciation." Journal of Coastal Research 814-834. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-18-00074.1 2019
  • Hitchcock, Robert K., Crowell, Aron L., Brooks, Alison S., Yellen, John E., Ebert, James I., and Osborn, Alan J. 2019. "The Ethnoarchaeology of Ambush Hunting: A Case Study of ǂGi Pan, Western Ngamiland, Botswana." African Archaeological Review 36 (1):119-144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-018-9319-x 2019
  • Helser, Thomas, Kastelle, Craig, Crowell, Aron L., Ushikubo, Takayuki, Orland, Ian J., Kozdon, Reinhard, and Valley, John W. 2018. "A 200-year archaeozoological record of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) life history as revealed through ion microprobe oxygen isotope ratios in otoliths." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 21:1236-1246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.06.037 2018
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2017. "Ice, Seals, and Guns: Late 19th Century Commercial Sealing in Southeast Alaska." Arctic Anthropology 53 (2):https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.53.2.11 2017
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2016. "Museums and Alaska Native Artists." in Alaska Passé/Present, edited by Céline Ramios., 65-72. Château Museé. 2016
  • Crowell, Aron L. and Kay, Sharon. 2014. "Aleut Basketry at the Kunstkamera: Linking Traditional and Contemporary Arts." in Catalog of the Aleut Collections of the Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg, edited by Korsun, Sergei., 39-46. Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences. 2014
  • Crowell, Aron L., Liddle, Joseph, and Matson, Mark. 2013. "Spatial Correlation of Archaeological Sites and Subsistence Resources in the Gulf of Alaska." Alaska Park Science 11 (2):4-9. 2013
  • Crowell, Aron L. and Howell, Wayne K. 2013. "Time, Oral Tradition, and Archaeology at Xakwnoowú, A Little Ice Age Fort in Southeastern Alaska." American Antiquity 78 (1):2-23. 2013
  • Anichtchenko, Evgenia and Crowell, Aron L. 2010. "Baidary Tikhookeanskikh Eskimosov po Dannym Arkheologogii i Etnographii." Sbornik Museja Antropologii y Etnographii 56:198-227. 2010
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2010. "Introduction." in Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska, edited by Crowell, Aron L., Worl, Rosita, Ongtooguk, Paul, and Biddison, Dawn D. ., 12-27. Smithsonian Books. 2010
  • Crowell, Aron L., Yesner, David R., Eagle, Rita, and Hanson, Diane K. 2008. "A Historic alutiiq Village on the Outer Kenai Coast: Subsistence and Trade in the Early Russian Contact Period." Alaska Journal of Anthropology 6 (1-2):225-252. 2008
  • Hutchinson, I. and Crowell, Aron L. 2007. "Recurrence and extent of great earthquakes in southern Alaska during the late holocene from an analysis of the radiocarbon record of land-level change and village abandonment." Radiocarbon 49 (3):1323-1385. 2007

• audio-visual document

  • Crowell, Aron. 2012. Listen and Learn: Iñupiaq Language and Culture Video Lessons. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3wBN-dh9DMRB5s9APoE5_HflZesd4eMH. 2012
  • Crowell, Aron L. and Biddison, Dawn D. . 2012. The Art of Aleutian Islands Bentwood Hats. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3wBN-dh9DMRt0gN9GboC9g5-Qeqr8lRG. 2012
  • Crowell, Aron. 2011. Listen and Learn: St. Lawrence Island Yupik Language and Culture Video Lessons. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3wBN-dh9DMSzUIITsvK0-KbZ5F2h-rkr. 2011

• book

  • Listen and Learn: Iñupiaq Language and Culture Video Lessons.  Ed. Biddison, Dawn.  2014
  • Listen and Learn: St. Lawrence Island Yupik Language and Culture Video Lessons.  Ed. Biddison, Dawn.  2014
  • Crowell, Aron L., Howell, Wayne K., Mann, Daniel H., and Streveler, Gregory. 2013. The Hoonah Tlingit Cultural Landscape in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. National Park Service. 2013
  • Crowell, Aron L., Worl, Rosita, Ongtooguk, Paul C., and Biddison, Dawn D. . 2010. Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska. Smithsonian Books. 2010

• chapter

  • Crowell, Aron L. 2018. "Inuit-Dene Cultural Ecology in Cook Inlet, Alaska since 1000 B.C." in Imagining Anchorage: The Making of America’s Northernmost Metropolis, edited by James Barnett and Ian Hartman., 2-19. University of Alaska Press. 2018
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2018. "Sugpiaq (Alutiiq) History and Archaeology on the Kenai Peninsula's Outer Coast." in 150 Years: Proceedings of the 2017 Kenai Peninsula History Conference, edited by Loshbaugh, Shana F., 223-230. Skookum Creek. 2018
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2015. "Sharing Knowledge thorugh the Looking Both Ways Exhibition." in Kal'unek--From Karluk, Kodiak Alutiiq History and the Archaeology of Karluk One, edited by Steffian, Amy F., Leist, Marnie A., and Haakanson, Sven D., 301-303. University of Alaska Press. 2015
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2015. "The Glacier's Eternal Gift: Sealing, Science, and Indigenous Knowledge at Yakutat Bay, Alaska." in Keeping Our Traditions Alive: Compendium of Best Practices in Promoting the Traditional Ways of Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples, 48-49. The Arctic Council Secretariat. 2015
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2014. "Cook and Russian Colonialism in Southern Alaska." in Arctic Ambitions: Captain Cook and the Northwest Passage, edited by Barnett, James K. and Nicandri, David., 149-169. University of Washington Press. 2014
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2011. "Ethnicity and Periphery: The Archaeology of Identity in Russian America." in The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Context, edited by Croucher, Sarah K. and Weiss, Lindsay., 85-104. Springer. 2011
  • Fitzhugh, William W. and Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Ancestors and Ivories: Art of the Ancient Bering Sea." in Gifts for the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Sea, edited by Hollowell, Julie and Crowell, Aron L., 18-41. Princeton University. 2009
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Archaeology of a Borderland: Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet, Southern Alaska Coast." in Archaeology in America (Vol. 4), edited by McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., 258-260. Greenwood Press. 2009
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Russian Colonization of Alaska and the Northwest Coast." in Archaeology in America (Vol. 4), edited by McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., 282-286. Greenwood Press. 2009
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "Sea Mammals in Art, Ceremony, and Belief: Knowledge Shared by Yupik and Iñupiaq Elders." in Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, edited by Fitzhugh, William W., Hollowell, Julie, and Crowell, Aron L., 206-225. Princeton University Art Museum. 2009
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2009. "The Art of Iñupiaq Whaling: Elders' Interpretations of International Polar Year Ethnological Collections." in Smithsonian at the Poles: Contributions to International Polar Year Science, edited by Krupnik, Igor, Lang, Michael A., and Miller, Scott E., 99-114. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.097884601X.9 2009
  • Crowell, Aron L. 2008. "The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878-80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context." in Living with Stories: Telling, Re-telling, and Remembering, edited by Schneider, William., 36-67. Utah State University Press. 2008

• conference paper

  • Crowell, Aron L., Krupnik, Igor, Fitzhugh, William W., Engelstad, Bernadette, Dean, Bernadette, Harper, Kenneth, MacKenzie, Scott, Michelsen, Knud, Kleist, Mari, Griebel, Brendan, Sonne, Birgitte, Pratt, Kenneth, Shokarev, Sergei, Schwalbe, Daria, Appelt, Martin, Nielsen, Bent, Norbert, Eileen, and Bronshtein, Michael. 2021. "From Greenland to the Pacific: Centennial of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-1924." in Alaska Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1-2), iii–269. 46th Annual meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association (Nome, Alaska) 2019-02-28. Alaska Anthropological Association. 2021

• review

  • Crowell, Aron L. 2012. [Book review] "Landscapes and Social Transformations on the Northwest Coast: Colonial Encounters on the Fraser Valley." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 175-177. 2012
• Crowell, Aron L. 2022. "Indigenous Peoples, Museums, and Anthropology." In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1, Introduction. Krupnik, Igor, editor. 119–135. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press. 2022

editor of

• book

  • Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North 2020
  • Listen and Learn: Iñupiaq Language and Culture Video Lessons 2014
  • Listen and Learn: St. Lawrence Island Yupik Language and Culture Video Lessons 2014
  • Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska 2010
  • Living Our Cultures, Sharing Our Heritage: The First Peoples of Alaska 2010
  • Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories From Bering Strait 2009

Contact

Location

• National Museum of Natural History  Academic Department