Kate Monti Barcalow is an applied environmental anthropologist with a focus on including indigenous perspectives for environmental restoration and management practices. After earning her BA in anthropology from Ohio State University in 2005, she completed her JD from Lewis and Clark’s Northwestern School of Law in 2008. She then worked for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Enforcement Section. In 2015 she completed her MA in anthropology from PSU. Incorporating her legal background into her ethnographic work, Ms. Barcalow evaluated the effectiveness of National Historic Protection Act in facilitating Native American tribes’ access and management of culturally significant places on federal lands for her MA applied thesis. Ms. Barcalow continues to work with indigenous communities on the West Coast to ensure indigenous voices are included in environmental decision-making processes and in developing best practices for state and federal agencies in their tribal engagement.
Selected Works:
- Barcalow, Kate and Jeremy Spoon. 2018. Traditional Cultural Properties or Places (TCPs), Consultation, and the Restoration of Native American Relationships with Aboriginal Lands in the Western United States. Human Organization 77(4): 291-301. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259.77.4.291
- Deur, Doug and Kate Barcalow. 2019. Newberry Crater National Monument Phase II TCP Study: Newberry Crater Cultural District Nomination Initial Review of Legal, Policy, and Regulatory Implications.
- Spoon, Jeremy, Kruger, Brittany, Arnold, Richard, Barcalow, Kate, and Tribal Revegetation Committee, TRC. 2021. Tribal Revegetation Project Final Project Report: 92-Acre Area, Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, Nevada National Security Site, Nevada.
- Spoon, Jeremy, Richard Arnold, Kate Barcalow and Nuwuvi Working Group. 2018. Nuwuvi Working Group Comments, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Lee Canyon Ski Area, Master Development Plan Phase 1. The Mountain Institute.
- Deur, Doug, Rachel Lahoff, Kate Barcalow, and Rochelle Bloom. 2018. Sierra Crest Homelands: An Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Relating to Tribes Associated with Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks and Devil’s Postpile National Monument. Portland State University.
- Spoon, Jeremy and Kate Barcalow. 2016. Meeting Summary: Annual Tribal Update Meeting, Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations. Nevada National Security Site, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy. Portland State University and Desert Research Institute.
Courses Taught:
- Anth 345 Practicing Anthropology