External Awards

Society for American Archaeology King Grant for Archaeology of the Ancient Americas (2024) “Investigating the Resilience of a Postclassic Riverine Maya Community on an Island in the New River, Belize.” $15,000 (with Zachary Nissen, Northwestern University)

National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2018-2021) “Power Relations in the Context of Agricultural Production.” $11,040 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818785&HistoricalAwards=false

Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2017-2019) “Human-Environment Relationships During Drought at Aventura, Belize.” $19,885 https://wennergren.org/grantee/kacey-grauer/

National Geographic Early Career Grant (2017) “Power and Pocket Bajos at the Ancient Maya Site of Aventura, Belize.” $4,995

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Nissen, Zachary, Kacey Grauer, Adela Pederson, Andy Chuc, and Kaleah Estep. In prep. “What’s in a name? Power and place names in northeastern Belize.” Intended for Heritage, Open Access.

Hauser, Mark and Kacey Grauer. In Press. “Don’t forget to ask your local archaeologist: Water security’s material record.” PLoS WATER. Open access.

Grauer, Kacey and Zachary Nissen (2025) “Resilience on the river: Introducing the New River Island Project.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology. 19: 95-107.

Liu, Li, Yahui He, Kacey Grauer, and Yuyang Wang (2023) “Identifying indigenous bast fibers for archaeological research in East Asia.” Archaeological Research in Asia, 36(2023): 100476. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2023.100476

Grauer, Kacey (2021) “Heterarchical political ecology: Commoner and elite (meta)physical access to water at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 62: 101301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101301

Grauer, Kacey (2020) “Active environments: Relational ontologies of landscape at the ancient Maya city of Aventura, Belize.” Journal of Social Archaeology, 20(1): 74-94. https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/1469605319871362

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Grauer, Kacey. Under review. “Aventura’s watery landscape: Communities of people, water, houses, and ancestors.” In Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancient Maya City. Cynthia Robin, ed. University of Colorado Press. Under contract, Open Access.

Grauer, Kacey, Eponine Wong, Zachary Nissen, Debra Walker, and Hannah Hoover. Under review. “Reconfiguring communities in the Postclassic at Aventura.” In Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancient Maya City. Cynthia Robin, ed. University of Colorado Press. Under contract, Open Access.

Robin, Cynthia, Kacey Grauer, Zachary Nissen, and Kathleen Fitzgerald. under review. “A human geography of Aventura: LiDAR and settlement survey.” In Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancient Maya City. Cynthia Robin, ed. University of Colorado Press. Under contract, Open Access.

Robin, Cynthia, Kacey Grauer, Zachary Nissen, Andres Novelo, Gabriela Dziki, Hannah Hoover, Martin Menz, Eponine Wong, Maria Cunningham, Erin Niles, Jaime Awe, Rafael Guerra, Melissa Badillo, Sherilyne Jones, and Debra Walker. Under review. “Aventura’s resilient households.” In Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancestral Maya City. Cynthia Robin, ed. University of Colorado Press. Under contract, Open Access.

Robin, Cynthia, Kacey Grauer, Zachary Nissen. Under review. “Learning from engagements with Aventura’s urban households.” In Households at Aventura: Life and Community Longevity at an Ancestral Maya City. Cynthia Robin, ed. University of Colorado Press. Under contract, Open Access.

Editor-Reviewed Articles

Grauer, Kacey (2023) “Introduction: Archaeologies of and for Environmental Justice.” The SAA Archaeological Record, 23(2).

Grauer, Kacey (2023) “Challenges with and Possibilities of Archaeology of and for Environmental Justice: Reflections from Aventura.” The SAA Archaeological Record, 23(2). http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?m=16146&i=786738&p=26&ver=html5

Editorial Roles

Grauer, Kacey and Melissa Rosenzweig (2023) “Archaeologies of and for Environmental Justice” invited special section in The SAA Archaeological Record, 23(2). http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=786738&p=14&view=issueViewer

Edited Volume Contributions

Grauer, Kacey and Zachary Nissen. In prep. “Resilience on the River: Introducing the New River Island Project.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2024 Belize Archaeology Symposium. M. Badillo, ed. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize.

Nissen, Zachary, Kacey Grauer, Gabriela Dziki, Anna Moles, Hannah Hoover, Erin Niles, Debra Walker, and Cynthia Robin (2023) “Situating Households within an Urban Community: Recent Research at Aventura, and Ancient Maya City.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2022 Belize Archaeology Symposium. J. Morris and M. Badillo eds. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize. https://pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/826150816/CH_21_Nissen_et_al.pdf

Grauer, Kacey, Robin, Cynthia, Kosakowsky, Laura, Nissen, Zachary, Dziki, Gabriela, and Menz, Martin (2020) “Household Excavations at Aventura, a Northern Belize Civic Center.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2019 Belize Archaeology Symposium. J Morris, M Badillo, and G Thompson eds. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize. Pp. 81-91. https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10212519

Robin, Cynthia, Kosakowsky, Laura, Grauer, Kacey, Nissen, Zachary, and Fitzgerald, Kathleen (2019) “Aventura in a Northern Belize Context: Challenging Traditional Narratives of Ancient Maya Civilization through the Results of the 2017 Field Season” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2018 Belize Archaeology Symposium. J Morris, M Badillo, and G Thompson eds. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize. Pp. 227-236. https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10212518

Robin, Cynthia, Kosakowsky, Laura, Grauer, Kacey, and Nissen, Zachary (2018) “Community Archaeology at Aventura: Archaeology about Communities and Archaeology for Communities.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2017 Belize Archaeology Symposium. J Morris, M Badillo, and G Thompson eds. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize. Pp. 319-328.

Robin, Cynthia, Kosakowsky, Laura, Grauer, Kacey, Nissen, Zachary, and Jones, Melissa (2017) “Urban Design, its Antecedents and Successors, at Aventura: Results of the 2015 Field Season.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2016 Belize Archaeology Symposium. J Morris, M Badillo, and G Thompson eds. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize. Pp. 167-175.

Robin, Cynthia. Kosakowsky, Laura. and Grauer, Kacey (2016) “Introducing the Aventura Site.” Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology: Papers of the 2015 Belize Archaeology Symposium. J Morris, M Badillo, and G Thompson eds. The Institute of Archaeology, NICH: Belmopan, Belize. Pp. 287-294.