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Preferred pronouns: she/her

Chair: Dr. Barbara Heath

Elizabeth is working to complete her PhD with support from the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts. Her dissertation analyzes how English colonists adapted tobacco smoking in 17th-century New England using a combination of documentary, archaeological, and elemental (ICP-MS) data. In addition, she runs an archaeological field school at the Overfield Tavern in Troy, Ohio and is part of a team analyzing evidence for the earliest manufacture and use of intestinal condoms in North America. In her time at the University of Tennessee, she has worked as a researcher and instructor of record for a diverse array of courses.

Publications

Tarulis, Elizabeth G., Taylor Bowden-Gray, Brigid Ogden. “‘Certain small contrivances’: Recreating an Intestinal Condom Recipe to Determine the Potential Effects of Manufacturing Methods on Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) Results.” Submitted to EXARC June 2025.
Tarulis, Elizabeth G. “Ceramics and the Navigation Acts: An Analysis of Trade at Three Plymouth Colony Sites.” Submitted to Historical Archaeology April 2024

Professional Service

Society for American Archaeology; Archaeological Institute of America; American Anthropological Association; Archaeological Society of Virginia; EXARC; Southeastern Archaeological Conference; Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference; Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology.

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Awards and Recognitions

2025-2026 Graduate Fellow, Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts
2025 Extraordinary Graduate Student Teaching Award, UTK
2025 Kneberg-Lewis Scholarship, Dept of Anthropology, UTK
2024 Dean’s Research Award, Dept of Anthropology, UTK
2024 Patricia Black Archaeological Research Award, Dept of Anthropology, UTK
2024 Dissertation Research Scholarship, Society for Historical Archaeology
2024 Graduate Research Award, Dept. of Anthropology, UTK
2023 Kiernan Experimental Archaeology Award, EXARC
2023 Gloria King Fellowship, MAC Lab
2023 Summer Graduate Research Assistantship Fund, ORIED, UTK
2022-2023 Faulkner Travel Award, Dept of Anthropology, UTK
2020-2021 J. Wallace and Katie Dean Graduate Fellowship, UTK