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Bio

is an anthropological archaeologist whose scholarship examines disruptions to traditional technological systems and the roles of traditional technologies in post-disaster coping. She is the author (with Sarah J. Trabert) of  (University Press of Colorado, 2021) and has published research in various journals, including American Antiquity, American Ethnologist, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hollenback's current research explores the long-term legacies of disaster among Northern Plains indigenous populations—specifically how Hidatsa crafting communities changed or maintained production, use, and discard practices related to pottery after the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More broadly, this research seeks to understand the social and cultural implications of the loss of skilled knowledge holders for contemporary indigenous communities. She is also engaged in collaborative archaeometric, technological, and soil chemistry studies to explore activity areas inside earthlodges, as well as extramural thermal features with the State Historical Society of North Dakota and National Park Service. 

Research Interests

Disasters and Hazards • Collaborative and Indigenous Archaeologies• Culture Contact • Ceramic Analysis • American Great Plains

Courses Taught

Introductory Cultural Anthropology • The Science of Our Past: Introduction to Archaeology • North American Archaeology • Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster • Indians of North America • Laboratory Methods in Archaeology: Experimental Archaeology • Plains Archaeology • Principles of Archaeology