Mairead Doery
PhD Student

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Emil W. Haury Building, Room 402 (Southwest Archaeology Lab)
About Mairead K. Doery
Mairead Doery (formerly Poulin) is a PhD student in the Archaeology program. Her research interests center on the ways that communities of the past and present engage with ancestral iconography, particularly in identity-based, memory-driven, and placemaking practices. She prioritizes the inclusion of Indigenous voices, ontologies, and oral histories in her work, which is also fueled by her interest in material culture and museum representation. Her research projects have spanned from the early Archaic to the late colonial periods of the American Southwest and Great Basin, and she has conducted fieldwork in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Ireland.
At the University of Arizona, Mairead is pursing a PhD Minor in American Indian Studies and Museum Studies, as well as a Graduate Certificate in College Teaching Methods. She has previously worked at the Williamstown Historical Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
Courses Taught
Instructor of Record:
ANTH 197: Introduction to UA and the School of Anthropology
ANTH 160A1: World Archaeology
Teaching Assistant/Associate:
ANTH 160A1: World Archaeology
ANTH 442/542: Field Training in Archaeology - AKA Picuris Pueblo Field School
ANTH 160D2: Origins of Human Diversity
CLAS 160D2: Classical Mythology
FTV100A: Film and TV History
Projects
University of Arizona:
Traditional Use Study for Arches National Park
Ethnographic Overview and Assessment for Bryce Canyon National Park
Western Colorado Rock Art Project
El Morro National Register of Historic Places Nomination
Picuris Pueblo Collaborative Archaeology Field School
Nomadic Archaeologies in the Northern Rio Grande Research Project
Homol’ovi Research Project
Others (selected):
Basketmaker Communities Project, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
Blackfriary Community Heritage and Archaeology Project, Irish Archaeology Field School
Research Interests
Identity, Iconography, Landscape, Migration, Memory, Indigenous Theory, Ethnogeography, Ethnography, Oral History, Material culture, Rock art, Collaborative and Indigenous archaeology.