Publication of that research is on-going.
Additional petrographic, NAA, lead isotope and LA-ICP-MS analyses of the glaze wares from Tijeras were completed at UCSC. In 2010, she spent six months as a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico where she analyzed the extensive ceramic collections from Tijeras Pueblo that are housed at the Maxwell Museum. Habicht Mauche had NSF funding to study the pottery from Tijeras Pueblo, with particular attention to what can be learned from that site about the early development and spread of glaze paint technology to the Rio Grande pueblos from the Western Pueblo region around the turn of the fourteenth century. Habicht-Mauche’s specific contributions to the field of ceramic materials analysis in archaeology. Habicht-Mauche with its Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis, which honors an archaeologist whose “innovative and enduring research has made a significant impact on the discipline.” This award highlighted Prof. In 2009, the Society for American Archaeology presented Prof. In 2012, she co-edited with Linda Cordell a second related volume, Potters and Communities of Practice: Glaze Paint and Polychrome Pottery in the American Southwest. In 2006, with her colleagues Suzanne Eckert and Deborah Huntley, she edited the volume, The Social Life of Pots: Glaze Wares and Cultural Dynamics in the Southwest, AD 1250-1680 (University of Arizona Press), which highlighted the work of a number of young scholars engaged in cutting edge research on the technology of the Southwestern Glaze Wares.
Habicht-Mauche and her lab group have published a series of papers in the Journal of Archaeological Science outlining the successful results of this innovative research effort. A poster based on this research was awarded the Outstanding Poster Award at the 1998 Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1996, she received a multi-year NSF grant to explore the application of lead isotope analysis to the sourcing of Southwestern glaze-painted ceramics.
Her more recent work has focused on studies of the production and exchange of glaze-painted pottery from the late precontact Southwest. This monograph has become a standard reference on Rio Grande pottery. In 1993, she published The Pottery of Arroyo Hondo: Tribalization and Trade in the Northern Rio Grande, based on three years of archaeological research at the School of American Research (now School for Advanced Research) in Santa Fe.
Her doctoral research on interaction between Pueblo farmers of the Southwest and bison-hunting nomads of the Southern Plains won the Plains Anthropological Society Student Paper Competition and was awarded the Society for American Archaeology Dissertation Prize.
in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1988. She is an expert in the archaeological application of mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic techniques for sourcing artifacts and reconstructing inter- and intra-regional exchange and interaction. Habicht-Mauche’s research interests include the study of the technology, organization of production and exchange of ancient pottery from the American Southwest and Southern Plains. Habicht-Mauche is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1990.