Kari Schleher

Assistant Professor
Faculty Curator of Archaeology, Maxwell Museum

Photo: Kari Schleher

Archaeology

At UNM since 
2020
Email: 
kschlehe@unm.edu
Curriculum vitae
 

Education:

BA, University of Arizona (1998)

MA, University of New Mexico (2000)

PhD, University of New Mexico (2010)
Dissertation: “The Role of Standardization in Specialization of Ceramic Production at San Marcos Pueblo, New Mexico”

Research:

Southwest US Archaeology (Northern Rio Grande and Mesa Verde regions), pottery analysis, public archaeology and outreach, petrographic analysis.

Recent Publications:

Fladd, Samantha, Kari L. Schleher, Katelyn J. Bishop, and Sarah E. Oas
2026                Who Writes About the American Southwest? Gendered Authorship and Publication Trends. Kiva. https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2026.2658968

Schleher, Kari L. and Michelle Turner
2025                Local or Distant?: Items of Personal Adornment as a Reflection of Great House Identity in the Central Mesa Verde Region. Kiva. 91(3):263-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/00231940.2025.2514950

Dobrov, Amanda* and Kari L. Schleher
2025                A Clean Break: A Departure from Standard Typologies Through an Investigation of Pottery Temper at Joshua Tree National Park. California Archaeology, 17(1):35-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/1947461X.2025.2481351

Schleher, Kari L., Shanna Diederichs, and Kate Hughes
2023a              Community Development and Identity in the Basketmaker III Period. In Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, pg. 147-164, edited by Susan Ryan. University Press of Colorado, Denver, CO.  https:// doi .org/ 10 .5876/ 9781646424597

Schleher, Kari L., Samantha Linford, Grant Coffey, Kristin Kuckelman, Scott Ortman, Jonathan Till, and Mark Varian
2023b              Formation and Composition of Communities: Material Culture and Demographics in the Goodman Point and Sand Canyon Communities, In Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, pg. 222-238, edited by Susan Ryan. University Press of Colorado, Denver, CO.  https:// doi .org/ 10 .5876/ 9781646424597

Santarelli, Brunella, Sheila Goff, David Killick, Kari Schleher, and David Gonzales
2019    Lead Isotope Ratios of Pueblo I Lead-glazed Ceramics and Galenas from Colorado and Pueblo II Galenas from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 23(2019) 634-645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.027

Schleher, Kari L.
2019    Community Specialization and Standardization in the Galisteo Basin: The View from Pueblo San Marcos. In Reframing the Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Economy, edited by Scott G. Ortman, pp. 119-132. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Ramenofsky, Ann F. and Kari L. Schleher, editors
2017    The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.

Schleher, Kari L.
2017    Learning and Production: The Northern Rio Grande Glaze Ware Community of Practice at San Marcos Pueblo during the Protohistoric Period. In The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico. Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 107-128. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.

Ramenofsky, Ann F. and Kari L. Schleher
2017    Introducing San Marcos: A Protohistoric Town in North Central New Mexico. In The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico. Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 1-7. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.

Ramenofsky, Ann F., Kari L. Schleher and Ariane O. Pinson
2017    Situating San Marcos: Space, Time, and Tradition. In The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico. Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 9-21. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.

Larson, Dorothy, Kari L. Schleher, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Jonathan Van Hoose, and Jennifer Boyd Dyer
2017    Artifacts at San Marcos Pueblo. In The Archaeology and History of Pueblo San Marcos, New Mexico. Edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Kari L. Schleher, pg. 89-105. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.